Echoes Playlist

March 28-April 1, 2005

Following is a listing of the musical selections on Echoes this week.  The playlists include start times that indicate the approximate beginning of that piece of music, represented in minutes and seconds after the start of the hour. 

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FEATURES FOR THE WEEK
Monday 03/28/05
STELLAMARA'S GRAND CARAVAN
Stellamara is a Bay Area band creating a world music of the imagination, filtered through eastern European refrains, spun in Persian grooves, blended in medieval modalities and supercharged by San Francisco's multi-cultural sensibilities. It's all centered by the vocal incantations of Sonja Drakulich, whose voice evokes Bulgarian choirs and middle eastern ululations in this richly layered, percussive world fusion. They've just released their first CD in 8 years, called THE SEVEN VALLEYS (Lucidity Music.) In their Oakland home, Stellamara boards a music caravan from Persia to Bulgaria.

Tuesday 03/29/05
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH BELA FLECK & EDGAR MEYER
Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer are proponents of a sound that might be called Classical Americana. Edgar Meyer is a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" grant for his virtuoso bass playing and rich compositions for orchestra. He's been on Echoes playing with the Appalachian Waltz trio of Mark O'Connor and Yo-Yo Ma and with violinist Joshua Bell. Bela Fleck is a virtuoso banjo picker whose fiery technique is at the base of a true fusion music, spanning genres from bluegrass to jazz to classical. Last year the two musicians released MUSIC FOR TWO (Sony Classical). Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer come into the Echoes Living Room for a live performance of Classical Americana music.

Thursday 03/31/05
STEVE TIBBETTS & CHOYING DROLMA: TRANS-AMBIENT TIBET
Several years ago, Minneapolis-based guitar iconoclast Steve Tibbetts released a CD with a Tibetan nun named Choying Drolma. On CHO, he set her ancient Tibetan chants and hymns to his ambient sound designs. Bridging time and distance, Drolma and Tibbetts return with a new CD called SELWA (Six Degrees). Tibetan for "luminous," "clear" or "awake," Selwa perfectly describes the finely honed balance between Drolma's intoxicating, often folkloric songs and Tibbetts' abstracted ambiences. We get the nun and the guitarist together to talk about a meeting of worlds.

Friday 04/01/05
JOHANN SIGURU-WHALE SONGS FROM THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
Whale songs have entranced musicians for years. Pink Floyd emulated them on their epic song, echoes. Paul Winter went out and played his soprano saxophone with whales and recorded using their whale songs as backing. These sounds entranced Icelandic composer Johann Siguru. He's actually been using the natural resonance inside of whales to make his music. We go in search of a sonic Moby Dick.


Echoes Programs for the week of March 28-April 1, 2005

 Monday 03/28/05

Tuesday 03/29/05

Wednesday 03/30/05

Thursday 03/31/05

Friday 04/01/05

 0513A

0513B

0504B

0513D

0513E

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