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This Sunday's Echoes Programs
December 3, 2006
INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 11/27
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH RICHARD LEO JOHNSON
The first time Richard Leo Johnson played live on Echoes in 1999 he pasted us to the back wall with his intensity. He's mellowed out a bit since then. A while back, the Arkansas-born guitarist who currently lives in Savannah came across a battered National Steel guitar with the name Vernon McAlister scratched into its dull metal. Johnson took that name, created a story for Vernon McAlister, a drifter who rode the rails and played his guitar, and released an album of rustic ambient Americana. Richard Leo Johnson plays the imaginary music of Vernon McAlister and previews music from his next CD when he performs live on Echoes.
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Wednesday 11/29
PAUL AVGERINOS INTERVIEW: INTO THE MYSTIC
A synthesist finds his voice
When Paul Avgerinos first started recording, he was a stone cold electronic musician spinning synthesized cycles on CDs like Balancing Spheres. But he was actually a lapsed bassist and burgeoning world music seeker. He brings that all together on his CD, Gnosis, an album that merges Middle Eastern modes, Greek cantors and ecstatic trance grooves.
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Thursday 11/30
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH RENA JONES
Chamber music for strings and electronics
Until recently, Rena Jones was a denizen of San Francisco's electronica scene. She recently moved to Oregon, but she took her laptop, cello and violin with her. On her album, Driftwood, she combines them all into the elegant and textured electronica chamber music where Arvo Pärt-like lines of liquid inevitability flow while rhythms pulse, shudder and ping through the melodies.
Rena Jones invites us into her dining room to hear her do it live.
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Friday 12/01
MICHAEL MANRING: MUTANT BASS GUITAR
Michael Manring isn't one of those bass guitar players content to be in the background, holding up the bottom of the music. He plucks his custom Zon bass guitar in a ballet of flying limbs and impossible pirouettes. Based in Oakland, California, Manring has appeared on just about every Windham Hill album that has an electric bass, has several albums of his own ranging from shredding metal to delicate chamber works, and recently put out a purely solo electric bass guitar CD, Soliloquy. In this interview, Michael Manring talks about his bass guitar revolution.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive.
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