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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.
It’s Slow Flow Friday on Echoes, an all instrumental soundscape to take you into the weekend.
Sonomad is a project of keyboardist/programmer Ramin Sakuria and guitarist Geoffrey Brandin from The Supreme Beings of Leisure. As Sonomad, they create a downtempo space opera for a galactic sound wanderer.
Innovative and influential guitarist Kaki King talks about her daring new project called The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body.
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.
Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy have released two beautiful albums of modern instrumental music, Frio Suite and WaterSky. They’re joined by Irish flutist Brian Dunning of Nightnoise and violinist Wendy Goodwin when they play that music live.
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.
Dry the River is a band from England that takes yearning songs and turns them into gorgeous harmonies surrounded by psychedelic tinged arrangements redolent of bands like Love.
Darin Mahoney started out as a cowboy roping cattle and riding broncos in rodeos. A near death experience with cancer and an encounter with guitarist Will Ackerman’s music changed his life. Now he creates dreamy guitar music as a solo artist and in a duo with flutist Sherry Finzer.