Wednesday 07/01
AN INTERVIEW WITH MORGAN DOCTOR
Canadian percussionist creates cinematic soundscapes
Morgan Doctor is a world music percussionist who's as likely to play Indian tabla drums in a Kirtan session with Durga Das as mount the stage with The Cliks, a Canadian power-punk band. On her second solo album, Other Life, she creates imagery-laden journeys colored with Indian instruments and ambient designs. We talk with Morgan Doctor about her Other Life on Echoes. Listen to an Echo Location / Read a review of Other Life

Thursday 07/02
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH ACOUSTIC EIDOLON
Guitjo and cello converge
Acoustic Eidolon is the long-lived duo of cellist Hannah Alkire and guitarist Joe Scott. They create lyric, modern instrumental folk music using cello, guitar and Joe Scott's invention, the guitjo, a double-necked instrument combining banjo and guitar. When he plays it, it sounds more like a harp guitar with resonating ringing strings surrounding Alkire’s fluid and sometimes impassioned cello lines. Their new album is River of Fire and they play music from it live, on Echoes.

Friday 07/03
AN ECHOES JULY FOURTH
WITH A LIVING ROOM CONCERT FROM SUMNER MCKANE
It's an Independence Day celebration of Ambient Americana when we hear Sumner McKane taking a spaghetti western ride through the American landscape. Join us in Sumner McKane's garage in Maine, where twang and space meet live on the western plains of an Echoes 4th of July.

Tuesday 07/07
AN INTERVIEW WITH WENDY & LISA
Former Prince divas become heroic composers
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman came to renown in Prince's 1980s band, The Revolution, helping him compose the music of albums like Purple Rain. But the duo has been on their own for more than 20 years and can now be heard on TV shows like Crossing Jordan, Nurse Jackie, and Heroes. Wendy and Lisa talk about the music of Heroes and their new album, White Flags of Winter Chimneys.

Wednesday 07/08
ECHOES THEN AND NOW: ALEX DE GRASSI
We repluck the strings of an Echoes icon
Alex De Grassi is among the most influential of finger-style guitarists. He's the cousin of Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman, but that's not why he was among the most popular and critically acclaimed artists on that label. As we near our 20th anniversary we look back at Alex De Grassi from his Windham Hill debut to his latest work.

Monday 07/13 and weekend of July 18th
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH WHITETREE
Ambient chamber music live
Ludovico Einaudi's music is quiet, elegant and emotionally honed and he's slowly building an international audience the same way with albums like Divenire. Recently he teamed up with Robert and Ronald Lippok as Whitetree, combining electronica, space-jazz drums and Einaudi's haunting melodies. In a rare live performance we caught them on Echoes where they play music from their acclaimed debut, Cloudland. We float on clouds with Whitetree, live on Echoes.

Tuesday 07/14
AN INTERVIEW WITH RHIAN SHEEHAN
Music box and spectral clocks
Rhian Sheehan is a composer from New Zealand who gets to a place of exultant stillness on his CD, Standing in Silence. It’s an album born from isolation and innocence. He rummages through his daughter’s toy box, emerging with xylophones and music boxes that he electronically deconstructs and weaves into arrangements for electronics and ambient guitar, making the music itself sound like a lost artifact plucked from the dust and silence of another culture. From New Zealand, we talk with Rhian Sheehan.

Thursday 07/16
ECHOES THEN AND NOW: PAUL WINTER
An apostle of the wilderness
Paul Winter has always linked his music to the environment, creating soundscapes from across the globe, playing with whales and wolves, traveling to the depths of the Grand Canyon and the height of Crestone. He was among the first world fusionists and his many Grammys attest to his popularity. Paul Winter has been an important part of Echoes and as we near our 20th anniversary we look back at Paul Winter, Then and Now.

Friday 07/17
AN ECHOES INTERVIEW WITH MARK DWANE
One of the legends of indie-space music takes us out of this world
Mark Dwane has been a fixture on Echoes since his debut album, The Monuments of Mars. The signposts of Mark's music are expansive, cinematic melodies, propulsive grooves and chordal sweeps that send you careening into space. His albums often have mythic and sci-fi themes, including his latest album, Other Worlds. Although he has been played on Echoes from the beginning and had CDs of the Month selections, this is Mark's first Echoes interview.

Friday 07/24
AN INTERVIEW WITH RAY MONTFORD
A Canadian guitarist makes ambient Americana
Ray Montford is one of those chameleon guitarists who can play just about anything, but on his latest album, A Fragile Balance, he creates and ambient Americana that's like a meeting of Pink Floyd and Ry Cooder. We talk to this gifted musician about his long career in the music trenches and music that touches the sky.

Thursday 07/30
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH OTTMAR LIEBERT
Nouveau flamenco ambiences live
Noted guitarist Ottmar Liebert enters the Echoes Living Room with his Luna Negra Ensemble to unfold the intricate melodies of his latest album, The Scent of Light, an Echoes CD of the Month last August. Liebert's music always hovers between melody and surreality and we hang in the balance when he plays live on Echoes.