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On his 80th birthday, we look back at the career of composer and minimalist pioneer Steve Reich. He wrote Music for 18 Musicians. He influenced thousands of musicians.
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Dave Preston talks about his influences, current projects, and how his humble beginnings, recording with just a Shure SM-58, led to working with Justin Timberlake and his own ambient guitar albums.
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Big Ears is one of the most expansive, eclectic and challenging music festivals in the world. In downtown Knoxville Tennessee, musicians from around the world and across genres convene in concerts that test the limits of sound and music.
We’ll hear from a 21st century progressive rock opus by Mark McGuire called Beyond Belief and sufi chants turned into lush tapestries by HuDost.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear guitarists Dave Preston & Ian Ethan Case with two different approaches to guitar orchestrations..
We’ll hear from a 21st century progressive rock opus by Mark McGuire called Beyond Belief and sufi chants turned into lush tapestries by HuDost.
We’ll hear from a 21st century progressive rock opus by Mark McGuire called Beyond Belief and sufi chants turned into lush tapestries by HuDost.
A Celebration of Women in Music from the Echoes Spectrum for International Women’s Day This Saturday, March 8 is International Women’s Day and as we do each year, we focus this show on the sounds of women musicians. These days, that doesn’t seem as necessary as it did many years ago. Even 20 years back,…
ROBERT ASHLEY PASSES AT 83 Well, it may not have been so perfect, but Perfect Lives, Private Parts was the name of Robert Ashley’s multi-part meditation on life. It was loosely called an opera, in the way that his contemporary, Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach was an opera, but less so. Robert Ashley was…
In 1989 the World Wide Web was invented The Berlin Wall fell. The Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Denmark legalized civil unions between same-sex couples They were all ahead of the curve. And so was Echoes which launched on this day 24 years ago, on October 2, 1989 Today on Echoes, you’ll hear…