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This Week in Blues History #3 - April 15-21

From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History

This time we profile Lightnin' Hopkins, who, in 1954, laid down some hard rocking sides for Herald Records.

Added: Mar 07, 2018
Length: 03:29

This Week in Blues History #2 - April 8-14

From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History

This time, we profile Etta James, who landed at the top of the Billboard R&B charts this week in 1955, with "The Wallflower."

Added: Mar 05, 2018
Length: 03:29

This Week in Blues History #1 - April 1-7

From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History

This time, we profile Elmore James, who was in a recording studio in Chicago, this week in 1953.

Added: Mar 05, 2018
Length: 03:29

Song Story S0.E1 - Eric Ginsberg's "Little Love Notes" (pre-season sneak-peek)

From: Eric Ginsberg
Series: Song Story

Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This first pre-season sneak-peek features Song Story host, Er...

Added: Mar 25, 2014
Length: 10:54

Indie on Demand Reviews HIT SO HARD

From: Daniel Persons
Series: The Indie on Demand Movie Review

A review of the rock documentary about Hole drummer Patty Schemel.

Added: Apr 18, 2012
Length: 02:00

Herbie Hancock - The Imagine Project Part 1

From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A profile of jazz piano great Herbie Hancock

Bought by WEKU

Added: Jul 08, 2010
Length: 05:41
Purchases: 1

Kevin Keller's Ambient Chamber Music

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Ambient chamber music composer Kevin Keller's In Absentia is a study in finely calibrated emotions dealing with the disappearance and likely death ...

Added: May 06, 2010
Length: 03:30

International Guitar Night: Four virtuosos from Germany, Israel and America talk about a convergence of finger-style guitar

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

There are some guitarists for whom one insturment isan't enough. Brian Gore is one of them. For the past decade, he’s been realizing his ambition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Apr 22, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Mellodrama: the Signature Sound of Progressive Rock

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

The Mellotron was the sound of progressive rock and space music in the 1970s. Before digital synthesizers, it was an instrument that played back t...

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Apr 09, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 3

An exotic forest of sensual grooves, ambient atmospheres and intoxicating melodies

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Ylang ylang is a flowering tree that grows in South Asia, and on his album, Ylang, Robert Rich has sculpted another exotic forest of sound, full of...

Added: Apr 01, 2010
Length: 03:30

Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Mar 25, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Violinist Anna Schaad's Dream Within a Dream

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Violinist Anna Schaad’s music is steeped in fantasy and inspired by her Navy pilot husband. Though heavily Celtic influenced, she takes an electro...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Mar 09, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

English electronic duo plugs in with vintage synthesizers and heads into space

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Caption: Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve of Arc, Credit: Kimberly Haas

English electronic musicians Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy perform in a pair of cockpits of keyboards and gear. They specialize in a sound that has r...

Added: Mar 09, 2010
Length: 03:30

Kronos Quartet: Four Decades of Breaking the String Quartet Rules

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Caption: Kronos Quartet, Credit: Michael Wilson

In the world of string quartets there is before and after Kronos, the ensemble that revolutionized the form, playing new music from Steve Reich to...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio

Added: Mar 04, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 2

The Orchestrion: Pat Metheny's One-Man Band

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny plugs to the Orchestrion, a massive instrument based on the old player piano orchestrations of yore.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Feb 18, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

The Godfather of Ambient Chamber Music

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Harold Budd started out as a jazz drummer in the 1950s, then became a student of Schoenberg style serialism. Against that backdrop, he revolted th...

Bought by KUT and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Feb 11, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 2

Three Musicians in Communion With Each Other

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Native flute master R. Carlos Nakai, luthier and guitarist William Eaton, and world percussionist Will Clipman return with an album of intuitive im...

Added: Feb 04, 2010
Length: 03:30

A Senegalese griot meets a German jazz trumpeter

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jan 29, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

The Deep Space and Techno-tribal Worlds of Steve Roach

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

We talk with one of the most influential electronic artists of the last 30 years, from the deep space of his CD "Structures from Silence" to the t...

Added: Jan 22, 2010
Length: 03:30

Stylish fingerstyle guitarist from Sweden

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Jimmy Wahlsteen turns a pop melody sensibility into fingerstyle instrumentals

Added: Jan 14, 2010
Length: 03:30

A Nashville Insider Steps Outside

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Michael Spriggs has been a Nashville session guitarist with the likes of Eddie Rabbitt, Dolly Parton and Faith Hill. In the 90s he began exploring...

Bought by KTRL

Added: Dec 31, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Wandering the Psychedelic Galaxy with Gong

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

It's been 40 years since Daevid Allen convened his space gypsy rock band Gong which influenced everyone from Ozric Tentacles to Steve Roach. Allen...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Dec 22, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Americana Pulls up its Roots

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music with roots in heartland American sounds from folk, blues and country. But recently, Americ...

Bought by KTRL

Added: Dec 18, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

An Interview With Baaba Maal

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the African Griot and his own ethereal new CD, Television, recorded with The Brazilian Gi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KTRL