It’s a Throwback 30 on the next Echoes when we explore the Norwegian band Bel Canto and their 1990 album, Birds of Passage. Bel Canto had a dream pop sound before dream pop.
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Thursday, Mar 5, 2020 – Throwback 30: Bel Canto
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Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast Big Ears Festival 2020 & Jon Christensen In Memoriam
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Big Ears Festival 2020 Preview and Jon Christensen Remembered this Week in Echoes Podcast https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/EchoesPodcast-BigEars2020-JonChristensen.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast, we talk to Ashley Capps about his Big Ears 2020 Festival. Then we remember drummer Jon Christensen, the ECM house drummer. The Big Ears Music Festival 2020 is upon…
Playlists
Thursday, Feb 20, 2020 – Echoes Program 2007D
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Yppah, an ambient post-rock band that combines live playing with electronics. We’ll also hear the return of Trance Mission, the world fusion band.
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Wednesday, Mar 4, 2020 – Voxfire & Ralph Towner 80th
Voxfire takes Medieval chants and turns them into free-floating expanses with beautiful vocals. They infuse their chants with ambient moods and even blues harmonica.
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Tuesday, Mar 3, 2020 – Music by Nova Soon and Michael Bruckner
We’ll hear music by Nova Soon, who calls his music space folk, and while we’re in space, set the controls for electronic artist Michael Bruckner’s The Undercurrent.
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Weekend, Feb 29 – Mar 1, 2020 – Lane 8 & Jake Shimabukuro
We talk to Lane 8, the electronic artist bans sll cameras at his concerts and calls his sound “dreamy back-rub house music.” We’ll also hear the ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro playing live.
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Thursday, Feb 27, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
New music by Roger and Brian Eno from their collaboration Mixing Colours. We’ll also hear from electronic artist Hollan Holmes who has a new album of sequencer electronics called Milestones.
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Thursday, Feb 13, 2020 – Echoes Program 2006D
New ambient chamber music by Naneum from Life Cycle, a work for electronics and choir. We’ll also hear Daniel Avery and Allessandro Cortini from their collaboration, Illusion of Time.
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Wednesday, Feb 12, 2020 – Echoes Program 2006C
It’s vampires and dangerous love when we talk with Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes. She talks about the vampyric and film imagery behind her latest album, Lost Girls.
Reviews & Commentary
Obituary: We Remember Lyle Mays from Pat Metheny Group
Lyle Mays, pianist with Pat Metheny Group, passes at age 66, on 2/10/2020. We remember this creative force in fusion music who co-wrote most of the Metheny Group repertoire.