Mutual Benefit is a music project of singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. He’s been acclaimed in places like Stereogum and Pitchfork.
Playlists
Thursday, August 4th, 2016-Echoes Program 1631D
Tag: World Fusion
Playlists
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016-Echoes Program 1631B
Al Jewer plays flutes. Andy Mitran plays keyboards and percussion. When they aren’t crafting commercial jingles in Chicago, they create music that ranges from world fusion to pure ambient. Winners of a ZMR Award in 2016, they talk about their music on Echoes.
Interview Podcast
Ron Korb in the Echoes Podcast
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Ron Korb explains how he went from playing the plastic recorder as a child to becoming a grammy nominated world flute master. His latest album is Asia Beauty.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for June 2016
In Echoes Top 25 for June, Aukai’s debut recording leads the way. It was also the Echoes CD of the Month. He’s followed by SHEL – Just Crazy Enough, Emmy the Great – Second Love, and Haroula Rose’s Here the Blue River. See the complete list.
Best Of
The Best of 2016…So Far
At the half-way point of the year, we pick the albums that excited us the most thus far in 2016. Miranda Lee Richard’s “Echoes of the Dreamtime” tops the list of 25, followed by All India Radio, Hammock, Radiohead and more.
Reviews & Commentary
Peter Gabriel’s Homage to Ali
Peter Gabriel has released his first new song in 3 years. It’s a poetic homage to Muhammed Ali and the triumph of the spirit, It’s also a powerful world music tribal stomp.
Echoes Online, Interview Podcast
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in the Echoes Podcast
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Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble is among the premiere world music institutions, bringing together artists form traditional and classical worlds into a sometimes joyous, sometimes challenging fusion. Now they have a documentary film, The Music of Strangers.
Playlists
Thursday, June 9th, 2016-Echoes Program 1623D
Mutual Benefit is a music project of singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. He’s been acclaimed in places like Stereogum and Pitchfork.
Playlists
Tuesday, June 7, 2016-Echoes Program 1623B
Ron Korb has been making instrumental world music for 3 decades. The Canadian musician and composer plays flutes form all over the world, but especially Asia. He weaves his flute melodies into exotic tapestries that conjure up a world far away and sometimes a world of the imagination.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for May 2016
Hammock’s Echoes CD of the Month, “Everything and Nothing” leads the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Haroula Rose’s “Here the Blue River,” Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise” and Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool.” See the complete list.