Hawaiian ukulele lion Jake Shimabukuro comes in with his trio to lay down the dreamy ambient textured music of his new album, including a cover of a Pink Floyd classic.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020 – Jake Shimabukuro Trio Live
Tag: World Fusion
Playlists
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 – Echoes Program 2021C
Pianist Peter Kater is interviewed and we hear a suite of his music as well as new music from Moby, bassist Michael Manring, and German electronic artist Robert Schroeder.
Coming Up
Monday, June 8, 2020 – Taimane Interview
It’s a new generation of Ukulele player when we talk with Taimane. She’s creating her own ukulele fusion that takes the instrument out of the luau and into the world.
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Weekend, June 5-7, 2020 – John Gregorius & Emacipator
Guitar dreams by John Gregorius from his album, Full of Life, the June Echoes CD of the Month. We also have an interview with electronic musician Doug Appling of Emancipator.
Playlists
Friday, May 22, 2020 – Echoes Program 2020E
It’s new music by Simrit Kaur. She is an extraordinary singer who takes kirtan chants in a rapturous world fusion direction. We’ll hear a track from her latest album, When We Return.
Coming Up
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 – New Music from Sohn
New music by singer Sohn & the Metropole Orckest who turn his electronic pop into pop symphonies. We’ll also hear music from Aukai off their new album of world fusion, Game Trails.
Coming Up
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 – Emancipator Interview
Emancipator is Douglas Appling, an electronic musician who mixes synthesizers, sampled sounds and folk instruments like banjo and dulcimer into a hallucinatory sound. We talk to him on Echoes.
Coming Up
Friday, May 29, 2020 – Ukulele Titan Taimane Live
Hawaii’s Taimane takes the ukulele and brings uncanny virtuosity and melody to it If you think the ukulele is a novelty instrument for Luaus, then you need to hear Taimane live on Echoes.
Playlists
Thursday, May 14, 2020 – Echoes Program 2019D
Pianist Peter Kater goes Hawaiian. He taps traditional Hawaiian music and musicians and creates a lush landscape around them. We’ll also hear new music by the electronic artist Kayobe.
Coming Up
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 – Peter Kater Interview
Peter Kater is known for sweetly romantic and deeply introspective music. But there’s another side to this musician, with a dark childhood and beginning as a hitch-hiking itinerant musician.