INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 12/15
THE 2008 ECHOES LISTENER POLL
Listeners pick their 25 favorite Echoes CDs of 2008
It's been a great year for music with several new artists bringing us new directions in music. Ambient chamber music has dominated the year, but electronica made a return in the last quarter. An early perusal reveals likely winners to be an ambient chamber duo from England, a psychedelic americana guitarist from Maine and a veteran guitarist.
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Tuesday 12/16
It's seasonal sounds from Loreena McKennitt as we hear music from her CD, A Midwinter's Dream. And we hear new music from Kaya Project, the ethno-ambient artist from England with his album, And So It Goes.
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Wednesday 12/17
AN INTERVIEW WITH SUNDAD
Father and Son trade guitar leads
John Eurell, Sr was a rock and roll guitarist who hung up his axe to get on with life when he started playing acoustic guitar with his son, John, Jr. For the last several years, they've been playing as Sundad mixing twin acoustic guitars in the spirit of fusion artists like John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola. John Jr. and Sr. talk about coming together on music while at different points in their lives.
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Thursday 12/18
Two icons meet on Echoes when we hear a new CD with German electronic music god, Klaus Schulze and vocal Diva Lisa Gerrard. It's a meeting of synthesized spaces and Gothic hymns on a new double CD called Farscape.
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Friday 12/19
AN ECHOES WINTER SOLSTICE
Warm Music for the Longest Night of the Year
We orchestrate a winter landscape in sound, carrying you through the longest night of the year. No carols or Christmas songs, just a glistening expanse of sonic designs that take you to the heart of an astronomical event that has inspired myths and celebrations for millennia.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive
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