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This Sunday's Echoes Programs
June 11, 2006

FEATURES FOR THE WEEK
On ECHOES

Tuesday 06/06
ID#06-J07-00112 (Echoes Program 0623B)
ECHOES JUNE CD OF THE MONTH
JEFF JOHNSON: A THIN SILENCE
Ambient pianos in sacred space
We've been following Jeff Johnson on his Celtic odysseys and fantasy soundtracks for some time now. But on a new CD called A Thin Silence, Johnson articulates a more personal space. It's a CD of deep ambient piano meditations with the kind of subtle atmospheres for which Johnson is renowned. It's our CD of the Month for June. View the Playlist

Wednesday 06/07
ID#06-J07-00113 (Echoes Program 0623C)
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH MARCONI UNION
Ambient duo plays only second live performance
Marconi Union is a duo from Manchester who make a music that travels in cinematic melancholy and textural malaise. Their songs build slowly, emerging out of a flattened landscape of static and stillness to attain a quietly triumphal beauty. We'll hear them do it live for only the second time ever, in London on an Echoes Living Room Concert.
View the Playlist

Friday 06/09
ID#06-J07-00115 (Echoes Program 0614D)
A CLASSICAL CONFLUENCE
Classical music beyond Bach and Beethoven
We’ll hear a confluence of classics, as orchestral musicians cross over into new terrain and classic works are re-interpreted in modern ways. It includes performances by Yo-Yo Ma, William Orbit and Richie Blackmore. Wait a minute, wasn't he on the Echoes Rocks show? That's the world of Classical Confluence. View the Playlist

Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlists Archive.

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