Echoes Playlist

May 23-27, 2005

Following is a listing of the musical selections on Echoes this week.  The playlists include start times that indicate the approximate beginning of that piece of music, represented in minutes and seconds after the start of the hour. 

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FEATURES FOR THE WEEK
Monday 05/23/05
JAMI SIEBER'S ELEPHANT DREAMS
Dr. Dolittle talks with the animals, but Jami Sieber plays music with the elephants. The cellist recorded a CD with the Thai Elephant Orchestra called HIDDEN SKY and it doesn't sound like a bunch of elephants stomping around. Jami Sieber wove intimate musical conversations with the elephants and created her own ambient chamber music evocation of her Thai elephant experience. Jami Sieber tells her enchanting story on Echoes.

Tuesday 05/24/05
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH PIERRE BENSUSAN
Pierre Bensusan is one of the idiosyncratic geniuses of modern finger-style guitar playing. Although he's French with styles ranging from middle eastern to Celtic music showing up in his playing, he's really a musical descendent of John Fahey, creating a uniquely personal approach to the acoustic guitar. George Winston bows down before him. Michael Hedges named a tune after him. Pierre Bensusan comes to the Echoes Living Room where he plays music from his latest CD, ALTIPLANOS (Favored Nations Acoustic).

Wednesday 05/25/05
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH STEVE TIBBETTS AND CHOYING DROLMA
The Echoes Living Room is transformed into an ambient Buddhist temple when guitarist Steve Tibbetts, Tibetan nun and singer Choying Drolma, and percussionist Marc Anderson play their music live. Steve Tibbetts sets Drolma's ancient chants and hymns to his ambient sound designs, bridging time and distance, on their latest CD, SELWA (Six Degrees). Choying Drolma, Steve Tibbetts and Marc Anderson call down the spirits, live, on Echoes.

Friday 05/26/05
STELLAMARA'S GRAND CARAVAN
Stellamara is a Bay Area band creating a world music of the imagination, filtered through eastern European refrains, spun in Persian grooves, blended in medieval modalities and supercharged by San Francisco's multi-cultural sensibilities. It's all centered by the vocal incantations of Sonja Drakulich, whose voice evokes Bulgarian choirs and middle eastern ululations in this richly layered, percussive world fusion. They've just released their first CD in 8 years, called THE SEVEN VALLEYS (Lucidity Music.) In their Oakland home, Stellamara boards a music caravan from Persia to Bulgaria.


Echoes Programs for the week of May 23-27, 2005

 Monday 05/23/05

Tuesday 05/24/05

Wednesday 05/25/05

Thursday 05/26/05

Friday 05/27/05

 0512D

0521B

0521C

0521D

0513A

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