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INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK

Monday 05/04
ECHOES MAY CD OF THE MONTH
Leo Abrahams: The Grape and the Grain
Guitarist Leo Abrahams has taken a few detours since his exceptional debut, Honeytrap a few years back, but he returns to form on an album of pastoral, lyric instrumentals called The Grape and the Grain.. This Brian Eno sideman has a decidedly unambient, but no less imagistic sound on this CD that has touches of Americana and lots of intimate melodies. It's our Echoes CD of the Month for May.
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Tuesday 05/05
AN INTERVIEW WITH MORGAN DOCTOR
Canadian percussionist creates cinematic soundscapes
Morgan Doctor is a world music percussionist who's as likely to play Indian tabla drums in a Kirtan session with Durga Das as mount the stage with The Cliks, a Canadian power-punk band. On her second solo album,Other Life, she creates imagery-laden journeys colored with Indian instruments and ambient designs. We talk with Morgan Doctor about her Other Life on Echoes.
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Wednesday 05/06
AN INTERVIEW WITH ERIK SCOTT
Bass guitar from Alice Cooper to cinematic space
He's played with Alice Cooper, Flo & Eddie and was a charter member of Sonia Dada. But when he sat in his home north of Chicago all by himself, bassist Erik Scott came up with an introspective, all-instrumental album that showed what the electric bass can do in the service of evocative compositions. His album is called Other Planets. We take a trip to Erik Scott's.
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Thursday 05/07
It's new music from ambient artist Bluetech. He has a new CD out called The Divine Invasion and there’s new music from one of his best friends, Jerome Froese, the son of Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese.
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Friday 05/08
AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID BORDEN
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, makers of fine electronic music since 1969
It was forty years ago that David Borden and two associates mounted the stage with bulky, balky Moog synthesizers and played their intricate, trancy, minimalist inspired pieces. While Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze were still banging on drums and plucking guitars, Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company was making some of the first live electronic music. We look back at this pioneering band on their 40th anniversary.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive