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Echoes feature - Kori Linae Carothers

Pianist Kori Linae Carothers talks about her intimate chamber music, her recent CD Trillium, and playing with guitarist Will Ackerman and flugelhornist Jeff Oster.

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

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Nashville guitarist Michael Spriggs talks about his evolution from country picking to ambient Americana with his album Neurasenia, our Echoes CD of the Month from December.

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He's a collaborator with Brian Eno, played with Imogen Heap and is all over the last Coldplay album. On his own, Jon Hopkins makes a lyrical, glitch-strewn music based in acoustic piano. We talk with him about battered uprights and Kaos Pads.

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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 Sigur Ros. We talk with founder David Harrington about Kronos past and present.

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We continue our journey through 20 Echoes Icons with Patrick O'Hearn, a composer, keyboardist and bassist who has been making organically beautiful instrumental music since his 1985 debut, Ancient Dreams.

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

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Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music with roots in heartland sounds from folk, blues and country. In 2009, Americana emerged in some unusual locations on Echoes, including jazz, the avant-garde and electronica. John Diliberto's top three albums for 2009 are all dipping into a new stream of 21st century Americana.

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Listeners voted Steve Roach as number two of 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes. We'll look back at one of the most influential electronic artists of the last 30 years. From his CDs Structures from Silence to Dreamtime Return and Destination Beyond, Roach's music has been a touchstone of modern ambient and techno-tribal music.

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Anna Schaad is a musician steeped in fantasy and besotted by her Navy pilot husband. They both inform her dramatic and evocative music on the album, Dream Within A Dream. Anna Schaad talks about her inspirations.

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His followers are legion. His layered, delayed and reverbed guitar sound instantly recognizable. Robin Guthrie talks about music after the Cocteau Twins, his influential 80s band and his new album, Carousel.

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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 and guitarist Steve Hillage talk about the daze of Gong.

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Singer Donna DeLory talks about life in a post-Madonna world as the former back-up singer continues on her path of spiritual pop and mantra chants.

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Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They're updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin's Shakti, adding looping electronics to their already diverse sound. We talk to these two musicians about their album, Coming Home.

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Echoes is featuring 20 Icons of Echoes, to celebrate 20 years of Echoes. When we asked the listeners to vote, Brian Eno easily topped the listener poll. Hear why when we profile the iconoclastic and influential musician.

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Keyboardist Jeff Johnson and legendary guitarist Phil Keaggy collaborate on a tone poem to the Frio river. It mixes multiple guitars and keyboard textures into one of the most perfect albums of the year. It's the Echoes CD of the Month for October.

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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 the electronics and arrangements of Carmen Rizzo, known for his work with Niyaz, Inbar Bakal and his own electronica recordings. It's a meeting of cultures when they come together.

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Chris Bocast is a journeyman guitarist who plays ambient guitar. When he was living in Colorado, he teamed up with MJ Catalin, a Romanian drummer and electronic musician. The two have never met, but they create a virtual ensemble ambient sound on their album, Stratagem, which was our Echoes CD of the Month for August. Chris Bocast talks about his internet music collaboration

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It was 20 years ago that Toby Marks and Andy Guthrie formed Banco De Gaia, an ambient oscillation that has fused techno and ethnic music, psychedelic moods and ambient designs. Only Toby Marks remains and he's just released a double CD called Memories, Dreams, Reflections that features cover versions of songs that influenced him by Pink Floyd and King Crimson, classic Banco tracks revisited, and live performances. Toby Marks looks back at 20 years of edgy bliss.

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