We pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the halfway point. John Diliberto then runs them down from #25 to number 1. It begins with a band we’ve never heard of before and ends with an Icon of Echoes. We’ll hear from artists who put out signature releases, others reaching for ambitious highs and still others reflecting on very long careers.
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Minimalist pioneer Terry Riley turns 80 and shows no sign of slowing down. On his birthday, Daevid Allen, Jon Hassell, Kronos Quartet, Mike Oldfield and more talk about the influence of this minimalist icon who has gone beyond minimalism.
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/EchoesPodcast-WuMan.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHear this interview in the Echoes Podcast here or download it from iTunes. The pipa is a Chinese lute, shaped like a teardrop with a course of deeply fretted strings that are played with fingernails. Wu Man is the Yo-Yo Ma of this instrument. And she’s played with…
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith was a founding member of the AACM and he brings that sense of jazz freedom and possibilities to bear in a live performance at Philadelphia’s Clef Club with his Golden Quartet.
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Nels Cline is best known as the guitarist with Wilco, but long before he joined that band he had a burgeoning solo career as a an outside jazz guitarist. He reflects on his music, which embraces the contemplative and the chaotic.
Nels Cline is best known as the guitarist with Wilco, but long before he joined that band he had a burgeoning solo career as a an outside jazz guitarist.
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Bing & Ruth mix reed instruments, two double basses, cello and delay electronics into a haunting, hypnotic ambient chamber music sound.
On this Earth Day, we create a soundscape born from the planet, inspired by the riches of this earth that we seem so intent on destroying.
The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville brought together an array of musicians from the bleeding edge of the avant-garde to the cutting edge of rock and folk. Kronos Quartet presided over this meeting ground of Vanguard music that included Laurie Anderson, Wu Man, Terry Riley, Rhiannon Giddens and much much more.
We hear features from 7 of the performers at Big Ears 2015 including Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Max Richter, William Tyler, Silver Apples, and Bill Frisell.