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This Sunday's Echoes Programs
May 7, 2006

FEATURES FOR THE WEEK
On ECHOES

Monday 05/01/06
ID#06-J07-00086 (Echoes Program 0618A)
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER
Legendary Swiss artist improvises live.
Swiss harpist Andreas Vollenweider is certainly an icon of modern music. He has a recently released CD called VOX (Kinkou) on which he sings English lyrics for the first time. But when he comes into the Echoes living room, he leaves the songs outside and instead improvises on Celtic harp and Japanese koto. Performing live with percussionist Andi Pupato, Vollenweider spins out three enchanting songs that reveal his mastery of melody and just about anything with strings.
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Tuesday 05/02/06
ID#06-J07-00087 (Echoes Program 0618B)
CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY: A PIANO IN OBLIVION
Classical pianist probes the depths of Elliott Smith.
Pianist Christopher O'Riley has found a second career, interpreting the music of edgy rock artists. He's already released two CDs of piano renditions of Radiohead. Now he takes on Elliott Smith, the tragedy-bound singer who took his own life a few years ago. Christopher O'Riley thinks he's the greatest American songwriter since Cole Porter and he's recorded an entire CD of Smith's work called HOME TO OBLIVION. O'Riley presents his case for Elliott Smith on Echoes.
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Wednesday 05/03/06
ID#06-J07-00088 (Echoes Program 0618C)
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH SOLAS
A live performance by Celtic veterans.
Solas is the long-lived Celtic band, now celebrating their tenth anniversary with REUNION, a CD that unites members past and present. We unite Solas in the Echoes living room for a live performance.
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Friday 05/05/06
ID#06-J07-00090 (Echoes Program 0609B)
SLOW SIX: ELECTRIC STRINGS & AMBIENT ZING
Electric ambient chamber music for the 21st Century
The lessons of the 60s avant-garde and 70s minimalism converge in this New York City band that is creating an electric ambient chamber music. The debut album by Slow Six, PRIVATE TIMES IN PUBLIC PLACES was called the Classical CD of the Year by Time Out Magazine. Only this classical group plays electric guitars, electric keyboards and electric strings. They create a slow dreamy sound that harkens to a melodic brand of ethereal minimalism, but with an edge of the 60s avant-garde. In a chilly Brooklyn loft, Slow Six talks about a chilled classical sound.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlists Archive.

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