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.
Playlists
Tuesday, May 12th, 2015-Echoes Program 1519B
Tag: Progressive Rock
Playlists
Friday, May 8th, 2015-Echoes Program 1518E
Relax and go with the Slow Flow on Echoes.
CD of the Month
Echoes May CD of the Month: Steve Roach Skeleton Keys
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Elliott Hear Steve Roach talk about Skeleton Keys tonight on Echoes. As Steve Roach’s Skeleton Keys opens, with a reverse sequencer pattern fading-in as if going…
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes – A Global Village Symphony
A six-hour Global Village Symphony drawn from musical traditions around the world, featuring Afro Celt Sound System, Yo-Yo Ma, Ali Akbar Khan, Huayucaltia, David Parsons, and many more.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes – Tangerine Dreaming
A six-hour soundscape inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream. It includes music from Tangerine Dream’s album Supernormal, the Echoes CD of the Month for April 2015. You’ll also hear classic T-Dream, excerpts from solo albums of band members, and music from artists inspired by Tangerine Dream.
CD of the Month
April CD of the Month: Tangerine Dream’s Supernormal
Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese past in January, but a the last configuration of the band release a 3CD live set that embodies everything that made Tangerine Dream one of the most influential and inspiration electronic bands.
Interview Podcast
Fernwood in Echoes Podcast
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Gayle Ellett and Todd Montgomery are modern musicians purveying a backwoods Americana global music fusion as Fernwood. Arcadia is their second album of mostly acoustic ruminations, orchestrated with everything from sitars and guitars to bouzoukis and dilruba in a global music of the imagination.
Playlists
Thursday, March 19th, 2015-Echoes Program 1511D
We remember Daevid Allen. The founding member of the Soft Machine and Gong, Allen created a mythology about the Planet Gong that brought to his music and life with whimsical philosophies and space rock explorations.
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
Between the Ears of Big Ears 2015: Interviews with 7 Performers
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.
Reviews & Commentary
Daevid Allen Sounds the Last Gong R.I.P.
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Daevid Allen was the court jester and master of madness for Gong, the European progressive rock group who formed and 1969. He left the planet on March 13, at 77. He was a scientist of spacerock, evangelist of glissando guitar, one of the earliest loopers and cosmic Dada philosopher.