Echoes Playlist Week of November 8, 2004 (Week 45)

Echoes Playlist

November 8-12, 2004

Following is a listing of the musical selections airing on Echoes for the week of November 8-12, 2004. The dates on the playlists are the dates the programs are distributed to stations. Please check the program ID number to verify the program if your station broadcasts the program on a different day than it is distributed.

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FEATURES FOR THE WEEK

Tuesday 11/09/04
ANJA LECHNER & VASILLIS TSABROPOULOS: MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MUSIC
In the 1970s, the motto of ECM Records was the most beautiful sound next to silence. No one has fulfilled that motto more than Anja Lechner and Vasillis Tsabropoulos with their album CHANTS, HYMNS AND DANCES (ECM). Lechner is the German cellist with the Rosamunde Quartet and Greek born Tsabropoulos has several jazz trio albums out. On their new album, they adapt the music of Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann in a series of serene improvisations that will have you redefining your concepts of beauty. We talk to the two musicians about their meeting with remarkable music.

Wednesday 11/10/04
ECHOES NOVEMBER CD OF THE MONTH
ERIK WOLLO: BLUE SKY, RED GUITARS
Erik Wollo has been recording since the early 1980s, but his music just keeps getting more skillfully refined and emotionally tuned. On his latest CD, he merges the sound of his all-acoustic GUITAR NOVA CD along with his more recent albums like EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES and WIND JOURNEY. The latter was Echoes CD of the month for September, 2001 and the former would've followed suit if it hadn't been so soon. On BLUE SKY, RED GUITARS, Wollo layers overlapping acoustic arpeggios with searing e-bow lines that paint air-brushed messages in the sky. He also covers two tunes by the German electronic pioneers, Kraftwerk, "Computerlove" and "In the Hall of Mirrors." Wollo turns them into instrumental chamber meditations. BLUE SKY, RED GUITARS is the perfect album to lead us into winter.

Thursday 11/11/04
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH JONATHAN ELIAS
Jonathan Elias caused a buzz a few years ago with his global hymn for peace, THE PRAYER CYCLE. While working on PRAYER CYCLE 2, 9-11 and its aftermath happened and Elias took a break to look out across the American landscape instead of the global village. The result is a haunting tone poem called AMERICAN RIVER on which he orchestrates a landscape that's equal parts cosmic, country and Copland, searching for the lost soul of America. With a trio of violinist Charlie Bisharat and cellist Cameron Stone, Elias comes into the Echoes living room to play his often hallucinogenic Americana tone poems live.

Friday 11/12/04
ARYEH FRANKFURTER: CLOGGED FIDDLES & CELTIC HARPS
Aryeh Frankfurter is a multi-instrumentalist based in San Francisco who can whip off world jazz fusion solos on violin or pluck the most delicate melody on Celtic harp. On his latest album, AURORA OF THE NORTHERN HARP (Lion Harp), he adapts music for Swedish cow horn and clogged fiddle to his Celtic strings. In his basement studio, Aryeh Frankfurter reveals the roots and instruments behind his exotic sound.

Echoes Programs for the week of November 8-12, 2004
Monday 11/08/04	Tuesday 11/09/04	Wednesday 11/10/04	Thursday 11/11/04	Friday 11/12/04
0445A	0445B	0445C	0445D	0436C

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