Beyond
Echoes
are music streams that travel the Echoes soundwaves, and sometimes venture further afield. You won't have John's mellifluous hosting, but we hope you'll enjoy these musical journeys.
Swamp Thing
It meanders and twangs, gurgles and oozes. An atmospheric trip through a mythical swampland, with A Small Good Thing, Tom Newman, B.J. Cole, David Sylvian and more.
Each year we release a CD with tracks from some of our favorite Living Room Concerts from the previous 12 months. It's a fund-raiser for Echoes, and the artists generously donate their music for a limited time period. After that, the discs go out-of-print.
Now that we're reached Volume Thirteen in the series, we thought it would be a good time to listen back to those earlier discs that have slipped away.
Dreamscape focuses on the space music of Volumes 1 through 5, with rare tracks by Bill Nelson, Steve Roach, Spool, Spacecraft, Tuu, and more. =listen==playlist=
The legendary progressive rock
show that aired on WXPN in Philadelphia from about 1974 until
1989. Diaspar pushed musical boundaries with its willful eclecticism
and radical, often aggressive mixes of prog-rock, avant-garde
jazz, new wave and space music.
pushing musical boundaries
with willful eclecticism...
It’s an atmospheric hour of shimmering guitars and glistening synths, perfect for a stargazing evening, with Ulrich Schnauss, Robin Guthrie, William Orbit, Sound Tribe Sector 9. and more. Maybe even a meteor shower, during Mono...
Take a trip into a world of the imagination, where cultures and technologies merge in a seamless flow of chilled, down-tempo grooves and pastoral washes of electro-ambience. It's Another Land, a 3 hour voyage that includes music from the 1970s by Ashra, archetypal space music reborn with Banco De Gaia and echoes from the edge of the new millennium by Ulrich Schnauss, Sounds from the Ground and Michael Brook. Three hours, 29 songs and total bliss are found in Another Land.
A long, luxurious float through spaceways, wind-swept fields and inner dreams...with Biosphere, Seti, Vidna Obmana, Gert Emmens, Fripp and Eno, Steve Roach, Tetsu Inoue, and more.
A Winter Landscape As the days grow short, here's a soundscape of serene sounds and chilled atmospheres, by Monk, Loreena McKennitt, Tor Lundvall, Tim Story, and more.
New facets of the subcontinent...chilled and trancey grooves from Midival Punditz, Banco de Gaia, the Ganges Orchestra, Anoushka Shankar, Sonik Gurus and more.
A more vintage variation of the Diaspar sound with early progressive rock from Traffic, East of Eden, Hatfield and the North, Egg and Van Der Graaf Generator. We also hear a later edition of Gong with Alan Holdsworth on guitar. Bringing us closer to the present is a strain of post-psychedelic trance from Ozric Tentacles and their Finnish cousins, Hidria Spacefolk. There's also more from the English Bartok-rock band, Guapo and a musician who records classic prog keyboard orchestrations, Fonya.
Time stands still East of Endless.
Inspired by a 2002
survey by Jeff Towne and Peter Manzi for New Age Voice Magazine,
in which musicians, DJs critics, promoters, and record label
owners were asked to list the recordings that were most influential
on the world of ambient music. The top 25 CDs were selected and
ranked. Excerpts from all 25 of those recordings can be heard
in this 5-hour program.