Echoes Playlist

December 15-19, 2003

Following is a listing of the musical selections airing on Echoes for the week of December 15-19, 2003.  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

Monday 12/15/03
ESSENTIAL ECHOES FOR 2003
The listeners had their say, now we have ours when the Echoes staff picks their 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2003. These are the discs that made us want to get up and produce a radio show everyday, music that pushed our envelope and reach a certain pinnacle of perfection. You'll hear our choices, on ESSENTIAL ECHOES FOR 2003.

Tuesday 12/16/03
A FANTASY SOUNDTRACK FOR THE LORD OF THE RINGS Part Three
On the eve of the release of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, Echoes creates a fantasy soundtrack of music inspired by the J.R.R. Tolkien novels. It's the music you wish had been used on the film soundtrack including music from Sally Oldfield's THE WATERBEARER and two artists who took their names from the novels, Gandalf and Shadowfax. It's a journey through Middle Earth in a Lord of the Rings Suite.

Wednesday 12/17/03
BRIAN ENO PART ONE: NEW DIRECTIONS LOST & FOUND
As much music as you've heard from Brian Eno in the last thirty odd years, there are literally shelves more works-in-progress in his London studio. He's beginning to release some of it on his Curiosities series (Opal Music), but there are scores more. We take you into Eno's studio where the composer talks about new directions lost and found, plays some current projects and gives an impromptu Kaos Pad solo.

Thursday 12/18/03
BRIAN ENO PART TWO: AMBIENCE OF THE LONG NOW
Brian Eno usually operates on more than a single musical plane at once. At the same time he might be producing U2, he could also be sculpting an ambient sound installation. In the second part of our Brian Eno series, the composer and his brother Roger Eno, talk about the music of mid-20th century composer Hans Friedrich Micheelson and creating an ambient composition for bells that might exist in the far, far distant future.

Friday 12/19/03
BRIAN ENO PART THREE: ABBA & HEAVY METAL/THE VELVET GLOVE & THE CLENCHED FIST
In the process of playing some new, proto-punk-techno music & poetry works, Brian Eno ruminates on the place of music in the world today, the enduring popularity of Abba, and Heavy Metal as immersive music. "I think heavy metal players haven't really understood what they're doing, because what they're really doing is making a bath that you can immerse yourself in. But they insist that they've got something to say which, of course, is a big mistake." For Heavy Metalists perhaps, but not Brian Eno. One of our most prescient prognosticators, Eno talks about a world where music might be less important, but where musical possibilities are unlimited.

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Echoes Programs for the week of December 15-19, 2003

 Monday 12/15/03

Tuesday 12/16/03

Wednesday 12/17/03

Thursday 12/18/03

Friday 12/19/03

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51W

43W

43X

43Y

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Some stations tape-delay Echoes, please check with your local station if there is some question about what program was aired on a specific day.

The playlists include start times that indicate the approximate beginning of that piece of music, represented in minutes and seconds after the start of the hour.

There are also links to purchase many of the CDs, clicking the "buy-it" button will take you to an Amazon.com entry with more information about the CD. If there is no "buy-it" button, the CD is not currently carried by Amazon.com.

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