Swedish Cellist and Singer-Songwriter Linnea Olsson talks about her debut album on Echoes Tonight Linnea Olsson has played progressive rock with Isidurs Bane, backed folk singer Ane Brun and is currently touring with Peter Gabriel. She’s from Sweden, but influences on Linnea Olsson’s debut album include The Blues Brothers and the “Theme from Rawhide” and…
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Living Room Concerts
Just say AH! with Linnea Olsson Live on Echoes
Swedish Cellist and Singer-Songwriter Linnea Olsson plays live on Echoes Tonight A couple of weeks ago I recorded a double set of living room concerts in New York. One was with singer-songwriter Ane Brun. Look for that in forthcoming weeks. She was accompanied by fellow Swede, cellist Linnea Olsson. When Brun’s set ended, she left,…
Program Highlights
Heavenly Choirs from Julianna Barwick on Echoes
Enya may not be putting out any new music but there are many artists who are taking that layered vocal sound in different directions. One of them is Julianna Barwick. The Louisiana born, Missouri raised and of course, Brooklyn based artist does something Enya doesn’t dare do, perform live, layering her voice in real time…
CD of the Month
August CD of the Month-Matthew Schoening’s Elements
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-MatthewSchoening.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Definitive Album of Looping Cello from Matthew Schoening We get inundated by looping cellists at Echoes. For some reason, players of the most soulful of orchestral instruments have a predilection for hearing their own sound refracted in looping mirrors and digital delays. For Matthew Schoening‘s Elements, it’s…
Reviews & Commentary
Echo Location: Matthew Schoening’s Looped Cellos
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090624.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSEchoes finds a lapsed classical cellist who is looped. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Matthew Schoening‘s music here. Just like Nathaniel Ayres, the homeless cellist at the center of the film, The Soloist, Matthew Schoening was a cellist, in Los Angeles, without a…