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Riddles from the Border Regions, 1/22/11

From: Joan VanBuskirk

FRUITS ARE TUMBLING...

Bought by KRCB 104.9

Added: Jan 20, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Riddles from the Border Regions 12/4/10

From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions

MY SOIL IS CLOTH...

Bought by KRCB 104.9

Added: Dec 02, 2010
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Riddles from the Border Regions 11/13/10

From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions

I'M BORN AT FULL HEIGHT...

Bought by KRCB 104.9

Added: Nov 11, 2010
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Mediaeval Baebes

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

The allure is undeniable. Six talented, attractive women breathe renewed life into the rich texts of medieval songs and poetry with their haunting...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Apr 15, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 2

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

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

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

Cocteau Twins Guitarist Rides a Carousel of Drifting, Paisley-Dappled Tone Poems

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

Robin Guthrie's shimmering, ringing guitars, layers of echo and darkly melancholy themes play over trancey rhythm machines

Bought by KTRL

Added: Nov 25, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

The East-West fusion of Urban Nature

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

Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and Indian percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They’re updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin'...

Bought by KTRL

Added: Nov 17, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu: Tuvan throat singers meet an electronic mix-master

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

Huun Huur Tu is a band from Tuva specializing in the ancient style of harmonic singing that comes from that region. Their music is combined with th...

Bought by KTRL

Added: Nov 10, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Ben Neill: Mutantrumpet Ninja

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

Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Oct 29, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Rena Jones: The diva of ambient cello

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

Caption: Rena Jones, Credit: John Diliberto

There's a lot of looping, electronic cellists out there, but Rena Jones is one of the few who is also orchestrating her own electronica backings, c...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

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

Donna De Lory's sacred chants and songs

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

Donna De Lory turns Hindi chants into spiritual pop songs. A back-up singer for Madonna and a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right, Donna De ...

Added: Oct 14, 2009
Length: 03:30

Karda Estra: Gothic images in chamber rock music

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

Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio