Echoes Playlist

December 30, 2002-January 3, 2003

Following is a listing of the musical selections airing on Echoes for the week of December 30, 2002-January 3, 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 12/30/02
BANCO DE GAIA: GLOBAL GROOVES
In his home in the west of England, we visit Toby Marks, better known by his recording persona, Banco de Gaia. Toby Marks has always eschewed the term "ethno-techno", a genre that he helped spawn despite his ambivalence. Banco de Gaia launched a fusion of global music elements welded to kinetic rhythms and electro-sync grooves that even eight years later, holds up to extended listening. His 1995 album, LAST TRAIN TO LHASA (Six Degrees) is a signpost of ambient and techno music. A collection of his music BANCO DE GAIA: 10 YEARS (Six Degrees) was recently issued. Toby Marks takes us back to the birth of Banco de Gaia in Birmingham's Mega Dog and Whirly-gig raves up to the present.

Tuesday 12/31/02
A 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 Tuesday nights, this will be a special treat for them as we depart the year 2002 and welcome 2003.


Wednesday 01/01/03
The BEST OF ECHOES 2002: LISTENERS CHOICE
The ballots are in and counted and on this show we unveil the Top 25 CDs for 2002 from the listeners of Echoes. This special two hour show will play a track from each CD. This year the choices are less obvious than most so anything could happen.

Thursday 01/02/03
AXIOM OF CHOICE: PERSIAN POETICS
Axiom of Choice is the LA based Persian fusion group that merges sounds of the Middle East with atmospheres of the west. Their new CD, UNFOLDING (Narada) is an ecstatic take on the poetry of Omar Khayam, sung in Farsi by Axiom singer Mamak Khadem. She's surrounded by the strings of Loga Ramin Torkian who plays quarter tone guitar and saz and Martin Tillman's transformative electric cello. Armenian duduk and Middle eastern percussion add to a deeply sensual and spiritual passage. Mamak and Loga talk about the spirit of Omar Khayam and the spirit of UNFOLDING.

Friday 01/03/03
HOSSAM RAMZY'S EGYPTIAN FUSIONS

We travel to England where Eygptian percussionist Hossam Ramzy talks about his journey from traveling with the Bedouins to traveling with rock stars like Peter Gabriel and Robert Plant. You may not know Hossam Ramzy's name, but you've heard him adding Middle Eastern grooves to Gabriel's PASSION, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant's NO QUARTER and Phil Thornton's IMMORTAL EGYPT. In Ramzy's southern England home he beats out some Middle Eastern grooves and talks about becoming the first call Middle Eastern percussionist in England.

Echoes Programs for the week of December 30, 2002-January 3, 2003

 Monday 12/30/02

Tuesday 12/31/02

Wednesday 1/01/03

Thursday 1/02/03

Friday 1/03/03

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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.

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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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