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Take a trip into sequencer delirium with our February CD of the Month, The Desert Winds of Change by Steve Roach. It is a non-stop journey of synchronized patterns and soaring melodies.

It's Ambiences in Black when we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources, jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.

It’s an orchestra of the imagination with music by Orchestra Indigo. This is a project of rock artist Rick Randlett. He goes into a cocktail lounge in space for his album, The Small Hours.

February 8 marks the 50th anniversary of Brian Eno’s solo debut, Here Come the Warm Jets. This release set the stage for one of the most important artists of the last half-century.

New music by new wave pioneers, Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark. This electronic duo is still creating sophisticated electronic pop today. Their new album is Bauhaus Staircase.

Listen to looping guitar live when we hear Italian guitarist Fabio Mittino. He has a highly sophisticated looping and processing system and some burning leads that he puts into his sound.

Moby covers a song by Cream, and it’s not one of the big ones. He takes a haunting track from Disraeli Gears and turns it slowcore. We’ll also hear something from Beautiful Chorus.

Get close to the one you love for Echoes of the Heart, a Valentine's Soundscape. John Diliberto brings you songs of love and sounds of sensuality for Valentine’s Day on Echoes.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, a throwback sound from Ulrich Muehl who recorded as Roger Universe. The name is kinda corny, but the music casts back to a more melodic 1970s sound.

Guitarist Tom Caufield brings us an album without any guitar. Using synthesizers and a violinist, he channels the sound of progressive groups like Popol Vuh and Vangelis.

Kevin Keller talks about his album, Evensong. It is partly based on the chants and hymns of 12th century Abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Kevin brings these gothic sounds into the 21st century.

Head into psychedelic space on the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra. This is a seminal album that essentially launched the whole sequencer school of electronics.

On the next Echoes, new music from The Smile. That’s the project of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood. We’ll also hear the latest by Mitski, who explores the dark side of our psyche.

New music by Limina, an ambient chamber music project from Tyler Durham. He recorded with members of the London Symphony Orchestra to get the crystalline sound of his album, Coming Home.

David Holmes is a longtime giant of electronic music and a prolific film composer. He teams up with singer Raven Violet to create a politically charged album, Blind on a Galloping Horse.

Hear New Age Ancient and Modern. Prompted by the January death of New Age pioneer Iasos, Echoes takes a spin through some early new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents.

Get on the Peace Wagon. That's a new composition from new age and world fusion artist James Asher. We’ll also hear music from a new compilation called Music for the Lunar Halflight.

We set the controls for the heart of infinity when English electronic artist Ian Boddy comes in to play live. Sitting in a cockpit of synthesizers he sends us deep into space.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music from Thomas Lemmer. He’s put his numerous recent singles onto an actual album, Hope. I've also got some deep ambient music by Lyndsie Alguire.

New music by the German electronic artist Klangwelt. He is stretching the sound of sequencer-driven music on his new album, Here and Why. We'll also hear from Joseph L Young.

The March CD of the Month, Hollan Holmes’ Sacred Places. Hollan sees beauty and the spirit in his home state of Texas and turns it into melodic, sequencer reveries. We explore Sacred Places.

Lose yourself in some Long Tracks. We’ll hear four epic pieces all spanning some 20 minutes each. It may be a TikTok world, but Echoes brings us the epics, not just the tidbits.

We enter the world of Chant. From Abbess Hildegard von Bingen to contemporary musicians exploring a medieval sound, we’ll hear voices descending from the heavens and tuning the spirit.

New music from Jeff Oster, Vin Downes and Tom Eaton from their album, Seven Conversations. It’s an improvisation in ambient space. We’ll also hear from Deborah Martin and Erik Wollo.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, we get amorphous with Forrest Fang. The eclectic composer has a new album called The Lost Seasons of Amorphia combining synthesizers with zithers, gamelan, and gu-zheng.

It’s Quiet Resonance on the next Echoes when we talk to Tony Pounders. As Quiet Resonance, he composes guitar orchestrations that range from ambient to pastoral to pure space.

We’ll hear something from the first chanteuse of trip-hop, Beth Gibbons. She was the voice of Portishead, but now she’s solo. We’ll also hear new music by Olivia Chaney from Circus of Desire.

It’s Big Ears on the next Echoes. We’ll talk to founder Ashley Capps about the Big Ears Festival 2024, which includes performances from Laurie Anderson, King Britt, Roger Eno, and about 200 more.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, Jeff Johnson and John Van Deusen go deeply ambient. They’ve created a 29-minute music journey called Eremo, which is Italian for refuge. Echoes is always a refuge.

We put you to sleep with Lullabies for World Sleep Day. Sleep, or the lack thereof, has been a topic of much discussion for a few years now. John Diliberto sends you into your dreams.

Kaleida are a dream-pop duo from England and America sculpting a personal sound born of evocative, but minimally deployed electronics and sensual singing. Their new album is In Arms.

Zanias is an Australian electronic artist who has been working in the Berlin EDM scene for a decade. But her new album taps a goth side akin to Dead Can Dance. It’s called Ecdysis.

Echoes declares winter over with an Echoes Vernal Equinox Soundscape to put you in a Spring-like mood. We’ll hear music for the turning of the seasons to drive winter away.

We'll hear a new collaboration between string player and electronic artist Rena Jones with electronic artist Kilo Watts and we'll hear Jean-Michel Jarre remixed by Brian Eno.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Bruno SanFilippo. He's Argentine-born but based in Spain. He has crafted a new album inspired by social media called Redes, which is Spanish for network.

Before he died in 2013, Lou Reed created an ambient album called Hudson River Wind Meditations, which is now being re-released in a deluxe edition. We go back to our interview with Reed.

Tim Story used to be the ultimate melodicist, but now he’s mutating sounds, often with German icon, Roedelius. Tim Story talks about his evolution from a melody maven to a dissonant dreamer.

New music from the artist formerly known as Talitha Rise and Rise. Now she’s using her real name, Jo Beth Young. The music is still as magical on her latest release, Broken Spells.

World Piano Day was created by German keyboardist Nils Frahm to celebrate music created on 88 keys, created with objects embedded in strings, or electronics manipulating strings.

New music by Jeremiah Fraites. He’s a member of the alt-rock group, The Lumineers, but on his own he’s making a neo-classical sound with a rough edge. He has a new album, Piano Piano 2.

The April CD of the Month is an electronic excursion from Dave Bessell called Chromatic Lightning Cage. It’s a statement from a musician who recorded with Killing Joke, Suede, U2 and Coldplay.

We lost the great cellist & ambient chamber music pioneer David Darling in 2021. But fellow cellist Hans Christian resurrected him in an album of virtual duets called Ocean Dreaming Ocean.

New music by Abby Sage. Her debut album is called The Rot. She says “The Rot album focuses on the decomposition and reconstruction of everything she was taught growing up.”

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Misticeti. He comes to us from Colombia via Denmark where he currently composes some very dynamic electronic music. We’ll also hear from Jeremiah Fraites.

It’s an orchestra of the imagination with music by Orchestra Indigo. This is a project of rock artist Rick Randlett. He goes into a cocktail lounge in space for his album, The Small Hours.

Shade your eyes, it’s a Solar Eclipse Soundscape on the next Echoes. Much of the country will be experiencing a solar eclipse on April 8th. Here’s the soundtrack for your journey.

Le Morte d’Abby means "the death of Abby," but Abigail Lentz, who assumed that artist name, is very much alive. She was an army brat, but also a goth. Now she marshals sequencers, getting them in line.

It’s another Journey into Long Tracks on the next Echoes. We’ll be hearing the title track to Michael Hoenig’s Departure from the Northern Wastelands, some Mike Oldfield, Nils Frahm, and more.

We have the debut of Dark Sky Alliance. This group includes percussionist Jerry Marotta, keyboardist Rupert Greenall, electronic artist Eric “the” Taylor, and guitarist David Helpling.

Fear is the mind killer. Musicians have been inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune since it came out. On the heels of the new Dune movie, Echoes creates an Arrakis soundscape.

Composer Roger Eno is one of the pioneers of Ambient Chamber music. But recently, his music has become more neo-classical with albums on Deutsche Grammophon. We talk to him on Echoes.

The Medieval electronics of Qntal. This brilliant German group, fronted by vocalist Sigrid Hausen, turns medieval texts into electronica songs that seem to come from a cosmic cathedral.

We’ll hear from two very different singers: One is the sultry pillow talk sound of Cigarettes After Sex from a new single. The other is Shekina Rose, a new age singer channeling the spirits.

Music from Khruangbin, the trio who straddles the line between psychedelic, slow jam R&B and trance music. They have a new album called A La Sala. We’ll hear that and Julia Holter.