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Japancakes: Ambient Chamber Country

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Japancakes mixes electric guitar with pedal steel guitar, classical strings with synthesizers for a sound that's got country airs strung out in classical refrains with a touch of quirk.

From Athens, Georgia, Japancakes mixes electric guitar with pedal steel guitar, classical strings with synthesizers and emerges with a sound that's got country airs strung out in classical refrains with a touch of quirk.

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From Athens, Georgia, Japancakes mixes electric guitar with pedal steel guitar, classical strings with synthesizers and emerges with a sound that's got country airs strung out in classical refrains with a touch of quirk.

Echo Location can be scheduled as a weekly series or individual episodes can be used as desired on their own, within an arts or news magazine program.

Echo Location is a 3 1/2 minute weekly feature an artist, event, album or trend in new music. Radio producer and music critic John Diliberto has had a long and deep relationship with new music and each week he shares the excitement of new discoveries with Ech...
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Review of Japancakes: Ambient Chamber Country

Awesome. Japancakes' name had been familiar to me, but the band's music was not. As of now, count me a fan. The tone of the piece is informed but not esoteric, taking what could be a little alienating (country-shoegazer rock music) and making it sound palatable, and mostly, beautiful. I was especially excited to hear that the band has made an exacting rendition of the album Loveless, by My Bloody Valentine--one of my all-time favorites. The group's monumental song "Only Shallow" is here presented in an intimate version, on what sounds like a slide guitar. That's why covers exist: to show new depth in old favorites. Good stuff!

Broadcast History

aired on WXPN Philadelphia April 23, 2008

Timing and Cues

Incue: [sonar sound] + This is an Echo Location: Soundings for New Music.

Outcue: I?m John Diliberto and this has been an Echo Location, Soundings for New Music.