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This Sunday's Echoes Programs
December 17, 2006
INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 12/11
SLOW SIX PLAY LIVE IN A LIVING ROOM CONCERT
Electric chamber music for the 21st Century Live
Minimalism and ambience, The Velvet Underground and Arvo Part converge in this New York City band that is creating an electric ambient chamber music. The debut album by Slow Six, PRIVATE TIMES IN PUBLIC PLACES was called the Classical CD of the Year by Time Out Magazine. Only this classical group plays electric guitars, electric keyboards and electric strings. They play all new music from their forthcoming CD, live in the Echoes Living Room.
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Tuesday 12/12
JADE WARRIOR INTERVIEW: PROGRESSIVE POETS OF GLOBAL FUSION
We revisit the music of 1970s progressive rock pioneers
Jade Warrior started out as a Jethro Tull style power trio, but on their CD Floating World, they created a symphonic world fusion through elaborate multi-tracking, electric guitar orchestras and flute choirs. Jade Warrior effectively dissolved when one half of the duo, guitarist Tony Duhig, died in 1990. Their brilliant quartet of concept albums that began with Floating World and concluded with Way of the Sun were recently re-issued on CD. Through archival interviews with Tony Duhig and Jon Field, we look back fondly at Jade Warrior.
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Thursday 12/14
2006 LISTENERS POLL
Listener Favorites from 2006
Our listener poll closes on December 12th. On December 14th, you'll hear the results of the Listeners’ 25 favorite Echoes CDs for the past year. Cast your ballot at www.echoes.org.
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Friday 12/15
BT: BENT CIRCUITS & BINARY UNIVERSES
A master of dance electronica makes a progressive ambient masterpiece
BT earned his reputation as a techno-trance dance artist, spread his wings in soundtracks like Monster and has now created a work that takes ambient and electronica into new directions. This Binary Universe could be the Tubular Bells of the ’00s. BT is working at both the technological and emotional end of music. He designs many of his own instruments and programs and can get teary-eyed recalling a live performance or wax giddy when talking about his "bent circuits," essentially broken electronic toys like Furbies that he wires up and plays. We wire up BT in his LA home for an Echoes interview.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive.
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