David Helpling and Scott Reich: The Echoes Interview
Echoes weekend listeners hear, David Helpling and Scott Reich go Through the Thought Horizon. They are musicians exploring a philosophical ambience. You know David Helpling from his many solo works, collaborations with Jon Jenkins and Dark Sky Alliance. Scott Reich is less well-known. He’s a pianist and electronic composer, but he also takes his music to the mystical side on their collaboration, Through the Thought Horizon.
Scott Reich: The word “through,” meaning if you get to tied to your thoughts, you can have a limited experience in life. But if you can go through the thought horizon, then you’re opening up all kinds of new experiences. You can exist beyond thought.
Get ready for a ride into philosophy, the Kabbalah and the Primordial Tower. Join John Diliberto with David Helping and Scott Reich on Echoes from PRX.
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| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekend, July 18-19, 2026 – Program 2628A | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Unwed Sailor | West Coast Prism | High Remembrance |
| 0:06:00 | Instupendo | Old Home Not Yet Built | Old Home Not Yet Built (Single) |
| 0:08:51 | Felsmann + Tiley | God Is Lonelier (feat. Laius) | Protomensch |
| 0:11:34 | Jack Wylie | Eternal Spring | Eternal Spring |
| 0:16:32 | Shearwater | Daydream Unbeliever | The New World |
| 0:20:39 | Michael Whalen | Out of Body | Standing Near Infinity |
| 0:29:30 | Deepspace | High Precision Hydrocleansing Protocols (excerpt) | Water Planets |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Interview: David Helpling and Scott Reich | ||
| 0:44:12 | David Helpling and Scott Reich | The Primordial Tower | Through the Thought Horizon |
| 0:50:48 | KARYYN | MIND OVER HEART | Physic Universal Love Language (PULL) |
| 0:54:38 | Boards of Canada | You Retreat in Time and Space | Inferno |
| 0:59:00 | Lena Natalie | Afternoon in Oslo (excerpt) | A Time Before Us |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Fernwood | The Pan Chaser | Arcadia |
| 1:06:00 | Forrest Fang | Invisible Spring | Radiance and the Receding Light |
| 1:10:56 | Beth Orton | The Ground Above (Clean) | The Ground Above |
| 1:18:58 | Kinobe | Nothing Else Exists | Open Your Mind |
| 1:22:32 | Unwed Sailor | Gingerman | High Remembrance |
| 1:29:30 | Jim Kimo West and Michael Whalen | Malibu Breeze (excerpt) | Two Shores |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Jamie Rose Hennegan | Spatial Shift | Desert Goddess |
| 1:37:46 | UNKLE (feat. Liela Moss) | Touch Me | The Road Part II: Lost Highway |
| 1:42:33 | Richard Burmer | The Serum | Mosaic |
| 1:49:00 | break | ||
| 1:50:07 | Andy Bell & Masal | The Morning of the Trip | Common Primitives |
| 1:54:30 | Liminal Drifter | Sunday Raw | Cowboy Pilgrim |
On the next Echoes, the return of Beth Orton. She first fused folk and electronica in the ’90s, and now she’s gone even deeper with The Ground Above, a haunting, self-produced album of intimate songs and atmospheric sound. We’ll hear that and more on Echoes with John Diliberto from PRX.
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Echoes Weekend, July 18-19, 2026 – Program 2628B | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Michael Whalen | As One | Standing Near Infinity |
| 0:06:00 | BALTHVS | Liminal Stages | Liminal Stages b/w Eternal Flow |
| 0:08:50 | Mara Katria feat. Modern English | Snow | Modern M |
| 0:13:10 | Unwed Sailor | Three Jewels | High Remembrance |
| 0:18:29 | Cigarettes After Sex | Twizzler | Twizzler (Single |
| 0:21:11 | Byron Metcalf & Erik Wøllo | The Route of the Ascendant | Spanned Times |
| 0:29:30 | Immersion | A Long Way to Brooklyn | WTF??? |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Ludovico Einaudi | Santiago (Live) | The Summer Portraits Live |
| 0:34:17 | Mark Isham | At the Carousel Club | At the Carousel Club |
| 0:39:45 | Beth Orton | Cigarette Curls | The Ground Above |
| 0:46:21 | break | ||
| 0:46:54 | Aukai + Vraell | Far | Meld |
| 0:50:29 | Cate Kennan | Devil’s Hour | Shadows |
| 0:53:13 | Liminal Drifter | They Came in a Spaceship | Cowboy Pilgrim |
| 0:59:00 | Marcos Zarvos | Two Birds | Ray Donovan |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Harald Grosskopf | Panta Rei | Glitches Brew |
| 1:06:00 | Transponder | Umbral Exodus | Codex Limina |
| 1:19:30 | Eartheater | Crown Jewel | Crown Jewel (Single) |
| 1:23:27 | Boards of Canada | Naraka | Inferno |
| 1:29:30 | Lisa BellaDonna | Future Moves | Counterpoints |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Michael Stearns and Robert Rich | Opening Sky | Reunion of Breath and Waves |
| 1:35:21 | Widowspeak | Wondering | Roses |
| 1:39:31 | Unwed Sailor | West Coast Prism | High Remembrance |
| 1:44:06 | break | ||
| 1:44:44 | Thomas Lemmer | In the Quiet of What Was | DREAMSCAPES II |
| 1:46:28 | Pines | Bay of Martyrs | Dancer (EP) |
| 1:49:46 | Tycho | Forge | Love Like Raindrops Made of Light |
| 1:53:34 | Tori Amos | Veins | In Times of Dragons |