Sumner McKane creates an ambient Americana anthem
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
From: John Diliberto
Length: 00:03:30
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Piece Description
It's been several years now that guitarist Sumner McKane has been releasing albums of evocative soundscapes dipped in Americana as cinematic as a John Ford western and as nuanced as Andrew Wyeth painting. This isn't pastoral nostalgia. His landscapes are tinged in ambient atmospheres and pulled by an undertow of psychedelia that makes it some of the most unassumingly mind-bending music of the decade.
Broadcast History
WXPN Philadelphia 10/01/2008
Transcript
Musik
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It's been several years now that guitarist Sumner McKane has been releasing albums of evocative soundscapes dipped in Americana as cinematic as a John Ford western and as nuanced as Andrew Wyeth painting. This isn't pastoral nostalgia. His landscapes are tinged in ambient atmospheres and pulled by an undertow of psychedelia that makes it some of the most unassumingly mind-bending music of the decade.
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0:03:35
SM: with my stuff I don?t think of it as, as country sound, I think of more of a western sound. You know, there?s not a big difference but just the big reverby baritone kind of guitar sound, the spaghetti western stuff, so I think that for me is, I always try and fit that in somewhere just because I love that sound.
Musik Riding in Cars in the woods
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On his latest album, What A Great Place to Be, Sumner plays everything, drums, bass, computer,...
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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
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riding in Cars in the woods | Sumner McKane | What a Great Place to be. | Don't Hit Your Sister | 2008 | 00:10 |
| After the Fireworks We Walked to the Rope Swing | Sumner McKane | What a Great Place to be. | Don't Hit Your Sister | 2008 | 00:08 |
Additional Files
- Sumner McKane and band (mckane-bandpose.jpg)
