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Features for the Week:
Monday November 27, 2000
MAKYO-ZEN SYNTHESIST
He lives in Tokyo and has a vaguely Asian name, but Makyo is an American
musician working a highly cultivated brand of ethno-techno music. He
records under the names Makyo and Padmassana and when he isn't in his
closet of an apartment melting the walls making exotic albums like
SHRINGARA (Dakini) , you might find him DJing a rave at the foot of Mount
Fuji. We squeezed into Makyo's studio, where he revealed the influences
and confluences of his global electronic soundscapes.
Tuesday November 28, 2000
STATE OF GRACE
On Echoes we enter a State of Grace. We'll be talking with composer Paul
Schwartz and singer Lisbeth Scott about their new CD of 21st century gothic
hymns called STATE OF GRACE.
Wednesday November 29, 2000
KATE PRICE
Kate Price plays hammered dulcimer and uses it as an entry into a global
music landscape. We talk to Kate about her latest CD, THE ISLE OF DREAMING
and a musical odyssey that began with Balkan folk dancing.
Thursday November 30, 2000
MIZUYO KOMIYA-BETWEEN THE STRINGS
Mizuyo Komiya is a young Japanese musician playing an ancient Japanese
instrument, the koto. Only she doesn't play the traditional 13-stringed
version, but a large 25-stringed variation. A zither style instrument
that is tuned with moveable bridges, with strings plucked on one side and
bent on the other to change their pitch, Komiya weaves a richly detailed
soundworld on her latest album, LULLABY (Pacific Moon). In Tokyo, Mizuyo
Komiya takes us between the strings.
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