Echoes Playlist

May 9-13, 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
Tuesday 05/10/05
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH YO-YO MA & THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE
Acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma is one of the true icons of contemporary music. He's not just a master in the classical world, but has broadened his horizons to embrace music from around the world and across genres. The Silk Road Ensemble may be his most ambitious project. It's like an Asian caravan, picking up and dropping off musicians along the Silk Road path from China to the Mediterranean. Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble set up its tents in the Echoes Living Room to play music from their latest CD, SILK ROAD JOURNEYS: BEYOND THE HORIZON (Sony Classical).

Wednesday 05/11/05
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH DARIN SCHAFFER
A lot of solo musicians try to sound larger than they are, but most of them do it with a lot of over-dubbing. Bay Area artist Darin Schaffer plays an acoustic bass guitar but with looping, and electronic processing he creates a broad tapestry that sometimes sounds eastern, sometimes country and often ambient. In a Marin County living room, Darin Schaffer plugs in, picks and bows his way through music from his latest CD, DARIN SCHAFFER (Rebel Alliance).

Thursday 05/12/05
JON HASSELL: IMPROVISATIONS IN INTUITION
Jon Hassell is a seminal figure in contemporary music. A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a musician in LaMonte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music, he has roots in mid-20th century experimentalism and minimalism. On his own, he's crafted a fourth world music that has embraced rhythms from Africa to Bali, all sliced through with modern technology, dub grooves, ambient atmospheres and his own vapor trail trumpet lines. He's been an influence on Brian Eno, Steve Roach, Robert Rich and hundreds of other musicians. In an LA studio where he's mixing his latest album, Jon Hassell talks about his hallucinatory swirl of seductive rhythms and soul-searing trumpet called Maarifa Street (Nyen).

Friday 05/13/05
IRARI'S BALKAN LAMENTS
Irina Mikhailova grew up in Kazakhstan, but since moving to San Francisco in 1992, she's become a diva of the global music scene there, singing with the world fusion groups Lumin and Medicine Drum and the Bulgarian choir, Kitka. Now she's teamed up with Oakland-based pianist Ira Stein, formerly of the Windham Hill duo Ira Stein and Russel Walder. Together, they create chamber works from Bulgarian, Rumanian and Russian folk songs on their CD, ESQUISSE. Ira Stein and Irina Mikhailova talk about their unlikely collaboration.


Echoes Programs for the week of May 9-13, 2005

 Monday 05/09/05

Tuesday 05/10/05

Wednesday 05/11/05

Thursday 05/12/05

Friday 05/13/05

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