Echoes Playlist Week of November 22, 2004 (Week 47)

Echoes Playlist

November 22-26, 2004

Following is a listing of the musical selections airing on Echoes for the week of November 22-26, 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 11/23/04
STEVE TIBBETTS & CHOYING DROLMA: TRANS-AMBIENT TIBET
Several years ago, Minneapolis-based guitar iconoclast Steve Tibbetts released a CD with a Tibetan nun named Choying Drolma. On CHO, he set her ancient Tibetan chants and hymns to his ambient sound designs. Bridging time and distance, Drolma and Tibbetts return with a new CD called SELWA (Six Degrees). Tibetan for "luminous," "clear" or "awake," Selwa perfectly describes the finely honed balance between Drolma's intoxicating, often folkloric songs and Tibbetts' abstracted ambiences. We get the nun and the guitarist together to talk about a meeting of worlds.

Wednesday 11/24/04
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH ANJA LECHNER AND VASILLIS TSABROPOULOS
At An Die Musik in Baltimore we enjoy a private and intimate performance by German cellist Anja Lechner and Greek pianist Vasillis Tsabropoulos. Their latest album, CHANTS, HYMNS AND DANCES (ECM) is one of the most perfectly pitched, subtly nuanced recordings of 2004. The two artists 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 hear them in a live and spontaneous performance.

Thursday 11/25/04
AN ECHOES THANKSGIVING WITH WILL ACKERMAN
In the tradition of great acoustic music drawn from the heartland of America Echoes presents a special Thanksgiving program featuring Vermont-based guitarist Will Ackerman. Ackerman was the founder of Windham Hill records in 1977 and he, along with players like Alex De Grassi and Michael Hedges, launched the acoustic guitar renaissance of the 1980s. Ackerman has just released a a new CD, RETURNING (Mary's Tree-Decca) on which he re-records his best-loved tunes from the past 27 years. Joined by guitarist David Cullen, Will Ackerman comes into the Echoes living room, carves the turkey and then carves some of his beautiful guitar melodies, live on an Echoes Thanksgiving.

Friday 11/26/04
ECHOES AT THE MOVIES
Echoes opens up the virtual multiplex to sample soundtracks from the latest batch of films, not all of them Hollywood blockbusters. We'll be hearing soundtracks by Chinese composer Tan Dun for Jet Li's Hero and Gustavo Santaolalla's score to the Che Guevara biopic, The Motorcycle Diaries. We'll also go off the Hollywood red carpet and hear music for the animated film Illuminated Manuscripts. It's all on the widescreen of Echoes.

Echoes Programs for the week of November 22-26, 2004
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