The Echoes Top 25 for March 2019 has our CD of the Month “Ice Worlds” by Kevin Keller at the top, followed by Scott August, Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning, Mary Lattimore, and 21 more.
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Echoes March 2019 Top 25: Kevin Keller’s Ice Worlds
Tag: World Fusion
Reviews & Commentary
Review: Big Ears Festival 2019 Expands Auricles
The Big Ears Festival took place in Knoxville this past weekend, March 21-24. John Diliberto dove in, attending 24 concerts of bleeding edge music and gentle refrains. Read his review.
Playlists
Thursday, March 21, 2019 – Echoes Program 1912D
On the next Echoes, trance out to Simrit Kaur a Greek born, American raised and Eastern inclined singer. who takes Kirtan chants into world fusion territory on a new live album.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019 – Echoes Program 1912C
Dead Can Dance talk about their conceptual album, Dionysus, a wedding of Greek mythology, tribal culture and global ritual sounds. Brendan Perry talks about hallucinogens to ecstasy on Echoes.
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Tuesday March 19, 2019 Echoes Program 1912B
Rising EDM star CloZee comes in to talk about a sound that she has called World Bass. She mixes sampled sounds of global instruments and motifs on her latest album, Evasion.
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Friday, March 8, 2019 – Echoes Program 1910E
On a Slow Flow Echoes we explore early Japanese ambient music from a new collection called Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990.
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Thursday, March 7, 2019 – Echoes Program 1910D
Talos, is an Irish band exploring a dreamy electronica pop sound. They have a new album called Far Out Dust. We’ll also hear English singer-songwriter Lucy Rose from her EP, No Words Left.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019 – Echoes Program 1910C
Flutist Suzanne Teng and percussionist Gilbert Levy talk about their world fusion band, Mystic Journey, which sounds like the house band in an exotic Middle Eastern palace of the imagination.
Best Of
Echoes February 2019 Top 25: Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson
The Echoes Top 25 for February 2019 has Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson’s CD of the Month “Cappadocia” at the top, followed by William Tyler, Nicholas Gunn, Roma, Sharon Van Etten and 20 more.
Playlists
Friday, February 15, 2019-Echoes Program 1907E
Coming up on Echoes, music by Rodrigo y Gabriela. The Nuevo flamenco guitar couple tackles a song that is iconic on Echoes, the piece from which the show took its name, Pink Floyd’s “Echoes.”