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This Sunday's Echoes Programs
August 27, 2006
INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 08/21
RYAN FARISH: PRETTY ELECTRONICA
Electronica composer looks to the divine for inspiration
Ryan Farish is a multi-instrumentalist whose Los Angeles living room is completely taken over by a recording console, computers, keyboards, guitars, and both electronic and acoustic drum kits. He brings them all to bear on his melodically rich, rhythmically sensual albums like BEAUTIFUL and his latest, EVERLASTING. Ryan Farish talks about a life that includes rock and roll, Christ and computers. And we get him to thrash on his drum kit, too.
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Tuesday 08/22
JOHN FOXX PART ONE: FROM METAL BEATS TO AMBIENCE DISCRETE
A poet of the new wave becomes a provocateur of the synthesizer
John Foxx came to renown as the lead singer of Ultravox in the late 1970s, mixing punk aesthetics with glamrock attitudes and electronic moods. Their self-titled debut was produced by Brian Eno. But Foxx evolved, delving into analog electronics a la Kraftwerk and ultimately creating ambient albums of gothic choruses and ethereal synthesizers. In London, John Foxx talks about Metamatic music.
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Wednesday 08/23
JOHN FOXX PART TWO: TINY COLOUR MOVIES
Composer scores the soundtrack for the lost cinema of home movies
Remember those old color washed Super 8 home movies your parents or grandparents used to show? John Foxx has discovered an underground of Super 8 film makers taking lost, forgotten films or creating new movies of idiosyncratic visions brought to nostalgic life on a discarded format. He's created electronic soundtracks to these films that are flights of imagination. In an interview, we'll hear there's even more to Foxx's imagination than meets the ear.
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Friday 08/25
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH LANTERNA
Ambient Americana Live
Lanterna recently put out a new CD called Desert Ocean. Lanterna guitarist Henry Frayne comes into the Echoes living room for his second visit, orchestrating his ambient Americana surf music live.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive.
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