Echoes Playlist

May 3-7, 2004

Following is a listing of the musical selections airing on Echoes for the week of May 3-7, 2004.  The dates on the playlists are the dates the programs are distributed to stations.  Please check the program ID number to verify the program if your station broadcasts the program on a different day than it is distributed.

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FEATURES FOR THE WEEK

Monday 05/03/04
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH PETER KATER
Southern California based pianist and composer Peter Kater comes into the Echoes Living Room to play a set of solo piano live. We know Peter Kater from his many collaborations with Native flute player R. Carlos Nakai, ensemble recordings that range from neo-primitive to neo-chamber, and solo albums that explore his wide-ranging piano skills. Last year's RED MOON was a Grammy nominee and an Echoes CD of the Month. Peter Kater's first recording was a solo piano CD and his latest album picks up the solo thread. It's aptly called PIANO (Point of Light Records) and draws on compositions from across Kater's career. In a living room in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Peter Kater plays some of that music live on Echoes.

Tuesday 05/04/04
VIKTOR KRAUSS: COUNTRY AND AMBIENT
Viktor Krauss is a bass player steeped in country and bluegrass, but he takes that background and applies ambient chamber music designs on his debut CD, FAR FROM ENOUGH. Born in Champaign, Illinois and currently living in Nashville, he's the older brother of new bluegrass superstar, Alison Krauss. She appears on his CD, as well as guitarist Bill Frisell and dobro player Jerry Douglas. Viktor Krauss talks about his cinematic tone poems, steeped in open-country air.

Thursday 05/06/04
ECHOES MAY CD OF THE MONTH
VAS: FEAST OF SILENCE
Our CD of the Month for May comes from longtime Echoes favorites, Vas. Their latest album, FEAST OF SILENCE is their first in four years and shows them creating a more lush global sound topped by the incantations of Azam Ali. A FEAST OF SILENCE might seem like an ironic title for an album that exults in searing melody and throbbing rhythm. It's our CD of the Month for May.

Friday 05/07/04
YUVAL RON'S HANDS ACROSS THE SEA
Yuval Ron creates a fusion between Middle Eastern, Jewish and Western music. He's produced albums for Turkish multi-instrumentalist Omar Faruk Tekbilek and collaborated with Vas singer Azam Ali. His group, the Yuval Ron Ensemble, plays music of Sufi origin, as well as Jewish prayers from Morocco and Yemen and Armenian Church chants. In his Los Angeles studio, Yuval Ron talks about his trans-global, trans-spiritual music.

*denotes compilation

Echoes Programs for the week of May 3, 2004

 Monday 05/03/04

Tuesday 05/04/04

Wednesday 05/05/04

Thursday 05/06/04

Friday 05/07/04

 0409C

0410C

0418C

0418D

0412B

Click on a program number to see that day's playlist.

Some stations tape-delay Echoes, please check with your local station if there is some question about what program was aired on a specific day.

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.

There are also links to purchase many of the CDs, clicking the "buy-it" button will take you to an Amazon.com entry with more information about the CD. If there is no "buy-it" button, the CD is not currently carried by Amazon.com.

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