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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
ROBERT MOOG: REMEMBERED

Robert Moog passed away last week. On this special edition of Echoes, John Diliberto remembers a man who shaped the soundscape of the last 40 years with his innovative instruments. We hear from the inventor himself, and musicians who championed the Moog Modular System 3, MiniMoog and others, including Wendy Carlos, Jan Hammer, Klaus Schulze.

Wednesday, August 31, 2005
THE MUFFINS: STILL BAKING

The Muffins are a quartet that pushed the avant-jazz edges of the Progressive music envelope. Formed in the 1970s, they've been in existence off and on since then with pretty much the same core members. On their album DOUBLE NEGATIVE (Cunieform) they show that the progressive fires are still burning in a music that is both challenging and kinetically exhilarating. We talked to the Muffins during the summer 2005 Nearfest where they talked about the parameters of prog and their own left-field directions.

Wednesday, August 31, 2005
CHRISTOPHER HEDGE'S HEROIC SOUNDTRACK

Earlier this summer, PBS aired a documentary called “The New Heroes”. Narrated by Robert Redford, the 4 part series explores people making changes throughout the world, using entrepreneurial ideas to overcome poverty, despair and even slavery. Scoring this global exploration is Christopher Hedge, a San Francisco-based musician who has created a global score using musicians like renowned flutist Paul Horn, African percussionist Titos Sompa and Alki Akbar Khan's son, Alam on sarod. Christopher Hedge and producer Bob Grove talk about their global soundtrack (Triloka).