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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| Echoes Weekend, January 10-11, 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 |
Tubular Bells composer Mike Oldfield talks about Ommadawn, his two-sided epic from 1975. Mike Oldfield changed the world of progressive rock and instrumental music with his 1973 opus, Tubular Bells. But two years later he released this third album that many consider to be his masterpiece. It was released 50 years ago on September 25 or November 7. There’s a little dispute there. Today we revisit this epic work and our interview with Mike talking about an album that was inspired by his mother, who died during the recording, but left him her Irish heritage.
Mike Oldfield: I listened to music, Irish music, and there’s something in your blood. It really is, if I hear something Celtic, something, my ears perk up and just, I identify with it. So it’s always been part of me.
We talked to Oldfield in 2017 about his album, Return to Ommadawn and of course, we talked a lot about the original Ommadawn recording. We’ll return to that interview and we’ll also hear both parts of Ommadawn on its 50th Anniversary today on Echoes.
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Weekend, January 10-11, 2026 – Echoes Program 2601B |
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Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Azam Ali | No Longing for Home | Synesthesia |
| 0:06:00 | Mike Oldfield | Ommadawn Part One | Ommadawn |
| 0:25:53 | break | ||
| 0:26:16 | Adrian Sherwood | The Grand Designer | |
| 0:29:30 | Jim Kimo West and Michael Whalen | Malibu Breese (excerpt) | Two Shores |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn | ||
| 0:42:59 | Mike Oldfield | Return to Ommadawn Pt. 1 | Return to Ommadawn |
| 0:59:00 | Jóhann Jóhannsson | They Leave Everything Behind (excerpt) | Copenhagen Dreams |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Ian Boddy | A Time Remembered | Odyssey |
| 1:06:00 | Shambhu | Resiliance (with Leo Steinriede) | Lotus Dream |
| 1:09:05 | Sarah McLachlan | Better Broken | Better Broken |
| 1:13:00 | Deepspace | Micro-Particle Refiners SFPA8 | Water Planets |
| 1:15:04 | Purity Ring | The Long Night | Purity Ring |
| 1:19:17 | Azam Ali | This House is on Fire | Synesthesia |
| 1:23:30 | Maps | Chapter Five | Welcome To The Tudor Gate |
| 1:29:00 | Immersion | A Long Way to Brooklyn (excerpt) | WTF |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Mike Oldfield | Ommadawn Part 2 | Ommadawn |
| 1:44:30 | break | ||
| 1:43:35 | Flock of Dimes | River in My Arms | The Life you Save |
| 1:50:38 | Liam J Boyle | Revolutions | Gemstones VI (v/a) |
| 1:55:23 | Oneheart | Don’t Leave Me (w/ Kiran + Nivi) | Samsara Passengers |