September’s CD of the Month was New Radiations by Marissa Nadler and today We’ve got her talking about this album which is one of her most personal releases.
Marissa Nadler: “The whole record is really a heartbreak record. It kind of examines both sides through distance and time. And so New Radiations is really moving on in my head completely into a new world.”
Marissa Nadler is not your typical singer-songwriter. Yes, she sings and plays guitar, and that has been the central voice of her music since she began recording in 2004. But she’s darker. Her voice is bathed in reverb, as is her guitar, which she plays fingerstyle, sending symmetries of delay into even more reverb. There’s a reason I’ve dubbed her The Diva of the Downer. That’s not an insult. She exults in reveries from the darker corners of the mind and seems to sing them from the pillow right next to you. We hear her talk about it on Echoes.
Read our review of New Radiations
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
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| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:01 | Marissa Nadler | It Hits Harder | New Radiations |
| 0:06:00 | Geoglyph | Resonant Structure | Otherworldly |
| 0:12:48 | Bluetech | Restless | Spacehop Chronicles 2 |
| 0:16:08 | Cowboy Sadness | Billings, MT | Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1 |
| 0:21:10 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Secrets of the Talking Trees | Rendering Time |
| 0:29:30 | Immersion | A Long Way to Brooklyn (excerpt) | WTF??? |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Interview: Marissa Nadler | ||
| 0:48:05 | Marissa Nadler | New Radiations | New Radiations |
| 0:52:30 | Marissa Nadler | Sad Satellite | New Radiations |
| 0:59:00 | Adrian Sherwood | The Collapse of Everything (excerpt) | The Collapse of Everything |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Erik Wollo | Sinuous Path | Aeris Suite |
| 1:06:00 | Pretty Lightning | Night Roamer | Night Wobble |
| 1:09:35 | Big Thief | No Fear | No Fear |
| 1:16:18 | Purity Ring | The Long Night | Purity Ring |
| 1:20:13 | Evan Ziporyn & Contaqt | Evening Star | Art Decade |
| 1:29:30 | Shambhu | Resilience (excerpt) | Lotus Dream |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Bluetech | Amorphous Crystals of Cassiopeia | Spacehop Chronicles 2 |
| 1:35:45 | Jesse MacCaormack | All I Want to Be | All I Want to Be (single) |
| 1:40:17 | Michael Garrison | The Search | In the Regions of Sunreturn and Beyond |
| 1:47:25 | Chuck Van Zyl | Force Field | Gemstones VI (v/a) |
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 17-18, 2026 – Echoes Program 2602B |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
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 |