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Refractions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts, Volume 12 To celebrate the release of Refractions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts, Volume 12, we're listening to some of the complete concerts that we drew upon for the latest CD in our series. ~Kimberly Haas

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MICHAEL BROOK Progressive guitarist plays cinematic tone poems live

Michael Brook is a quiet legend in ambient and new music circles. After coming on the scene as a Brian Eno disciple and defining ambient guitar with his album, Hybrid, he's gone on to become a leading world fusion collaborator, making seminal albums with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Djivan Gasparyan, among others. Brook's 2006 CD, rockpaperscissors, compresses 14 years of experience into a CD over-flowing with ideas. He condenses them down to a provocative live set on Echoes, highlighting his infinite guitar. listen>> playlist>> (about 25 min.)

STEF BURNS (L) & PEPPINO D'AGOSTINO

It's a half hour of intricate and atmospheric interplay for acoustic and electric guitars when we hear Peppino D'Agostino and Stef Burns playing live. D'Agostino is the Italian born virtuoso who has released several albums of brilliant solo finger-style guitar over the last 25 years. Stef Burns is best known for slamming an electric guitar with people like Alice Cooper and Huey Lewis. But these guitarists are next-door neighbors in the San Francisco Bay Area and they crossed the fence last year to find common ground on CD called Bayshore Road. They came into the Echoes living room with a quartet to play their music live, including an unreleased Ennio Morricone medley. listen>> playlist>> (about 25 min.)

Electric cellist orchestrates classical loops in her Seattle home Gretchen Yanover is from a new generation of classical musicians. By day, she's a member of the Northwest Sinfonietta, a chamber orchestra in Seattle. By night, she plays with alterna-rockers Trwst, and in her quieter moments she sits with a looping device creating her own minimalist cello adagios. In 2006, she released her debut CD, Bow and Cello. In her Seattle home, Gretchen Yanover plugs in her cello and plays live in an Echoes Living Room Concert. listen>> (about 25 min) playlist>>

GRETCHEN YANOVER

MARCONI UNION Ambient duo plays only second live performance

Marconi Union is a duo from Manchester who make a music that travels in cinematic melancholy and textural malaise. Their songs build slowly, emerging out of a flattened landscape of static and stillness to attain a quietly triumphal beauty. We hear them do it live for only the second time ever, in London on an Echoes Living Room Concert. listen>> (about 25 min.) playlist>>

AL PETTEWAY AND AMY WHITE

Al Petteway is a gifted finger-style guitarist. His wife, Amy White, is a triple-threat on piano, mandolin and guitar. Together they've been exploring a new Appalachian music mixing original compositions with traditional songs and seasoned with occasional musical journeys to the Celtic Isles. Their 2005 CD, Land of the Sky is an homage to the landscape right outside their North Carolina windows. For this Living Room Concert, Al and Amy mix guitars, mandolin and Celtic harp in a performance we first heard on and Echoes Thanksgiving last year. listen>> (about 25 min) playlist>>

Michael Hewett is a post-Michael Hedges finger-style guitarist who runs his instrument through digital delays and effects and wraps them in modern chamber arrangements with cello, bass and percussion. With an ear toward the global village, in 2005 Hewett released his third album, Ally, a recording of expansive world chamber music compositions highlighted by Hewett's deft guitar playing. That same year, Michael Hewett brought his quartet into the Echoes Living Room where they played live. listen>> (about 25 min) playlist>>

MICHAEL HEWETT

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