Echoes Playlist

December 6-10, 2004

Following is a listing of the musical selections airing on Echoes for the week of December 6-10, 2004.  The dates on the playlists are the dates the programs are distributed to stations.  Please check the program ID number to verify the program if your station broadcasts the program on a different day than it is distributed.

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FEATURES FOR THE WEEK
Tuesday 12/07/04
ECHOES DECEMBER CD OF THE MONTH
ANJA LECHNER & VASILLIS TSABROPOULOS: CHANTS' HYMNS & DANCES
In the 1970s, someone dubbed ECM Records "the most beautiful sound next to silence." No one has fulfilled that ideal more than Anja Lechner and Vasillis Tsabropoulos with their album CHANTS, HYMNS AND DANCES (ECM). Lechner is the German cellist with the Rosamunde Quartet and the Greek born Tsabropoulos has several jazz trio albums out. On CHANTS, HYMNS & DANCES they adapt the music of Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann in a series of serene improvisations that will have you redefining your concepts of beauty. It's our Echoes CD of the Month for December.

Wednesday 12/08/04
WILL ACKERMAN: GHOSTS RETURNING
Will Ackerman is best known as a guitarist and founder of Windham Hill Records. He's released many albums and influenced a generation, launching a renaissance of finger-style guitar. On his latest CD, RETURNING (Mary's Tree/Decca), Ackerman returns to favorite songs from across his career, but at the same time he explores his musical past, he uncovers his psychological past as well, including sexual abuse and the suicide of his adoptive mother. These themes are a subtext of Ackerman's instrumental music on songs like "The Impending Death of the Virgin Spirit" to naming his new label, Mary's Tree, after his mother. We hear ghosts with Will Ackerman.

Thursday 12/09/04
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH FORASTIERE
You probably haven't heard Pino Forastiere anywhere but on Echoes. He's an Italian guitarist with a formidable set of chops and an animated performance style. Influenced by Michael Hedges, Forastiere has managed to distill that two-handed tapping approach into his own evocative compositions on a CD appropriately called RAG, TAP, BOOM. Forastiere comes into the Echoes living room where he plays his music live.

Friday 12/10/04
BLOW UP HOLLYWOOD: CHAMBER ROCK SOUNDTRACKS
Their name is certainly scary and threatening, but the music of this New York-based art rock group ventures into regions of dream pop, moody rock and evocative chamber instrumentals. They surround deeply personal and intimate songs, often about death, with cellos and electronic effects for a haunting sound. Their recent album, FAKE, is already garnering critical hosannas. We talk to the primary members of Blow Up Hollywood about their chamber rock reveries.

Echoes Programs for the week of December 6-10, 2004
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