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INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK

Monday 07/21
AN INTERVIEW WITH ALU
Macabre imagery reveals a dream world
Alu is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, who creates ambient soundscapes for her songs of lost innocence, cultural ennui and interior dialogues. With a voice that sounds like Kate Bush in a cabaret, Alu sings of casket salesmen, circus cosmos and buzzin' brains that populate her captivating fantasy stories. We talk about her sophomore album, Lobotomy Sessions.
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Tuesday 07/22
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH PETER KATER & JOSEPH FIRECROW
A communing of piano and Native flute
Pianist Peter Kater has been working with Native flute players for nearly two decades. His latest project is called Sacred Earth, a four-album series for the four compass points. The latest is called Wind of the East and features flute player Joseph Firecrow. In Peter Kater's southern California Living Room he creates intimate interpretations of music from Wind of the East with Joseph Firecrow and guitarist Mike Hamilton.
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Wednesday 07/23
AN INTERVIEW WITH SIMON JEFFES AT THE PENGUIN CAFÉ
Ambient chamber music pioneers get the re-issue treatment
He scored the strings for the Sid Vicious rendition of "My Way" and hung out with Brian Eno, but Simon Jeffes is best known for his idiosyncratic and influential chamber group, The Penguin Café Orchestra. Simon Jeffes died in 1997 but his CDs are all being reissued. We revisit an interview with this pioneering composer.
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Friday 07/25
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH HAMMOCK
Ambient Duo stretches shoegazing time
Hammock put out one of our favorite albums last year, Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop An Echo. It was our CD of the Month in January 2007. The Nashville duo of Andrew Thompson and Marc Byrd took their shoegazer affections and stretched them out over ambient time. On a new CD called Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow, they elongate it further in an ambient dreamscape. Hammock swing into the Echoes Living Room, where they play live.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive

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