Echoes Playlist

April 11-15, 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 04/11/05
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH ANJA LECHNER AND VASSILIS TSABROPOULOS
At An Die Musik in Baltimore we enjoy a private and intimate performance by German cellist Anja Lechner and Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos. Their latest album, CHANTS, HYMNS AND DANCES (ECM) is one of the most perfectly pitched, subtly nuanced recordings of 2004. The two artists adapt the music of Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann in a series of serene improvisations that will have you redefining your concepts of beauty. We hear them in a live and spontaneous performance.

Tuesday 04/12/05
JORANE-CELLO SONGS
There aren't too many singer-songwriters whose main instrument is the cello. Jorane is a Canadian musician with several albums released north of the border, but she's just put out her first U.S. recording, THE YOU AND THE NOW (Six Degrees), a haunting disc of luminous cello driven songs and Jorane's darkly insinuating, hymn-like vocals. Jorane talks about her music

Wednesday 04/13/05
SOUND TRIBE SECTOR NINE: ARTIFACTS OF THE FUTURE
Sound Tribe Sector Nine calls themselves a collective, integrating guest musicians, multimedia artists and even the audiences at their live shows into their expansive musical concept. Fundamentally a band of accomplished instrumentalists, STS9 has made computer-based looping and sampling an integral part of both their live shows and recording process. Guitarist Hunter Brown and bassist David Murphy talk about the intersection of electronica and improvisation that's heard on their latest CD ARTIFACT.

Friday 04/15/05
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH STELLAMARA
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 Franciscan 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.) We hear them playing live, on Echoes.

Echoes Programs for the week of April 11-15, 2005

 Monday 04/11/05

Tuesday 04/12/05

Wednesday 04/13/05

Thursday 04/14/05

Friday 04/15/05

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0515B

0515C

0504C

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