Echoes Playlist

December 27-31, 2004

Following is a listing of the musical selections airing on Echoes for the week of December 27-31, 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
Monday 12/27/04
JAN GARBAREK: STILL DREAMING

Speaking from the famous Rainbow Studios in Oslo, where he cut many of his most influential recordings, Jan Garbarek talks about his latest album IN PRAISE OF DREAMS (ECM), a deep, smoldering meditation that's part hymn, part lament, and part Parisian café. Garbarek reflects on his poetic imagery, references to an earlier style of jazz, and the art of dreaming.

Tuesday 12/28/04
JEFF GREINKE: ACOUSTIC AMBIENCES

Jeff Greinke has been a denizen of electronic ambient music since the early 1980s when he released his first recording, CITIES IN FOG, favoring slowed-down textures and elongated melodies. He still leans towards that sound, but in recent years, since moving to Tucson from Seattle, his music has been growing more acoustic and overtly melodic. He's even cut two albums under the moniker of Hana, with Sky Crys Mary singer Anisa Romero. Prior to a concert in a church in Philadelphia, Greinke talks about his new directions and recent albums, SOUNDTRACKS and WEATHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (FWD).

Wednesday 12/29/04
OTTMAR LIEBERT: A DAY IN THE WEEK

Ottmar Liebert made a career change a few years ago. After more than a decade on major labels, the German-born, Sante Fe-based musician struck out on his own, hoping to capitalize on the internet download phenomenon. It hasn't quite worked out the way he anticipated, but that hasn't stopped him from recording his finest CD in a while, LA SEMANA (SSR). Ottmar strips down his sound to simple percussion and guitar, but then creates amorphous, evocative edges through electronic processing. Ottmar Liebert talks about his new directions.

Thursday 12/30/04
JONATHAN ELIAS: AMERICA'S LOST SOUL

Jonathan Elias caused a buzz a few years ago with his global hymn for peace, THE PRAYER CYCLE. While working on Prayer Cycle 2, 9-11 and its aftermath happened and Elias took a break to look out across the American landscape instead of the global village. The result is a haunting tone poem called AMERICAN RIVER. With recitations from the late Johnny Cash, Emmy Lou Harris and Kris Kristofferson along with performances from some of country & western's best instrumentalists, he orchestrates a landscape that's as much Cosmic as Country and Copland, searching for the lost soul of America.

Friday 12/31/04
AN ECHOES TECHNO-TRIBAL NEW YEARS STOMP

Each New Year, ECHOES revs up the Beats-Per-Minute and kicks out the jams for a New Year's Eve Techno-Tribal celebration. Drawing from the same well-springs of the usual ECHOES soundscape, ECHOES forms a seamless path into the new year, with music that dances in your head. John Diliberto matches beats and mixes atmospheres, riding the pulse of some of the newest ambient and techno-tribal music, creating the ultimate New Years Eve chill-out room. If your listeners are accustomed to ECHOES on Friday nights, this will be a special treat for them as we depart the year 2004 and welcome in 2005.

Echoes Programs for the week of December 27-31, 2004

 Monday 12/27/04

Tuesday 12/28/04

Wednesday 12/29/04

Thursday 12/30/04

Friday 12/31/04

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Click on a program number to see that day's playlist.

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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