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This Sunday's Echoes Programs
August 6, 2006
INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 07/31
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY
Classical pianist interprets the music of the late Elliott Smith
Christopher O'Riley takes a seat in the Echoes living room to play music form his new CD, HOME TO OBLIVION. It's a tribute to singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, who took his own life a few years ago. O Riley takes Smith s emotionally complex songs and spreads them across the piano keys in this live performance.
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Tuesday 08/01
RICHARD LEO JOHNSON: RIDING THE RAILS OF RUSTIC AMERICANA
An acoustic guitar wizard creates an Americana myth
Richard Leo Johnson came to renown for his death-defying pyrotechnic forays of two-handed guitar tapping, often on a double-necked acoustic guitar. But a while back, the Arkansas born guitarist who currently lives in Savannah came across a battered National Steel guitar with the name Vernon McAlister scratched into its dull metal. Johnson took that name, created a story for Vernon McAlister, a drifter who rode the rails and played his guitar, and released an album of rustic ambient Americana. Richard Leo Johnson talks about his myth and the music it inspired.
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Thursday 08/03
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH 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'll hear them do it live for only the second time ever, in London on an Echoes Living Room Concert.
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Friday 08/04
BOMBAY DUB ORCHESTRA: ELECTRONICA INDIA AT THE SOURCE
Bollywood goes Ambient
Working with a 28-piece Bombay string section and Indian classical musicians from Bombay and London, Garry Hughes and Andrew T. MacKay have composed a seamless mesh of electronic and acoustic orchestrations that results in a global symphony. In London, we talk with the creators of Bombay Dub Orchestra.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive.
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