Ambient Chamber Music in Space: Deborah Martin & Jilly's Rendering Time
Today, we start off the new year with the first Echoes CD of the Month of 2026. It’s two artists you hear a lot separately and have heard two previous times together: Deborah Martin and Jill Haley. Deborah is a former opera and country singer turned electronic artist. Jill is a classical oboist and pianist who explores realms of new acoustic music. Together, they’ve created an ambient chamber music immersion called Rendering Time.
We have followed the careers of Deborah Martin and Jill Haley for a long time. We didn’t know Deborah when she was a country singer, but discovered her in the early days of the Spotted Peccary label. She was mixing mysticism and Taos drums in atmospheric music, winding her way through electronic moods. Jill Haley, we have known for a long time, first with the acoustic fusion group, One Alternative, through her many contributions to productions by Will Ackerman, and in a solo career centered around her National Park series of albums which is now up to 11 volumes. Their new album together, Rendering Time, forms a trilogy with their previous two releases, Into the Quiet and The Silence of Grace. It sits right up there with some of the masters of ambient chamber music and it is the January CD of the Month.
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| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Echoes Monday, January 5, 2026 – Program 2601A | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | All India Radio | Wisteria | The Unified Field |
| 0:06:00 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Sunlight and Starlight | Rendering Time |
| 0:10:35 | Where the Good Way Lies | Sunday Afternoon | These Hills |
| 0:15:34 | Rebecca Foon | Flood of Eternity | Black Butterflies |
| 0:19:55 | Eaton/Fullen | Drones Over America | Butterfly Compound |
| 0:25:23 | Brannan Lane | Snowflakes Gently Falling | 12 Days of Wayfarer 2 (v/a) |
| 0:29:30 | Felsman & Tiley | Kind (excerpt) | Protomensch |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Secrets of the Talking Trees | Rendering Time |
| 0:36:56 | Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore | Perpetual Adoration | Tragic Magic |
| 0:42:10 | Barry Cleveland & Robert Ric | Tangible Silence | Elliptical Passage |
| 0:48:53 | break | ||
| 0:50:20 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Shadow of the Moon | Rendering Time |
| 0:53:50 | Terje Rypdal and David Darling | Adagietto | Eos |
| 0:59:00 | Deepspace | High Precision Hydrocleansing-Protocols (excerpt) | Water Planets |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Bluetech | Leaving Winter Behind | Sines and Singularities |
| 1:06:00 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Cenote (Place of Deep Water) | Rendering Time |
| 1:10:39 | Madison George | Flow | Macrocosm |
| 1:13:24 | Lisa Bella Donna | Voyage to Metebelis III | Astarotha |
| 1:29:30 | Immersion | A Long Way to Brooklyn (excerpt) | WTF??? |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Rendering Time | Rendering Time |
| 1:35:36 | Blue Tomorrows | Santa Cruz (Memory Blues) | Weather Forever |
| 1:38:37 | STS9 | Portal to the Starry Path | Human Dream |
| 1:42:27 | Songstorm | Grl Bye | Grl Bye Single |
| 1:45:21 | break | ||
| 1:46:45 | Randy Armstrong | Ode To Sibelius | Echoes of Tomorrow |
| 1:52:24 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | From Source | Rendering Time |