Agnes Obel's The Meaning of Flowers - Echoes October CD of the Month
Singer Agnes Obel returns with her first album in six years, The Meaning of Flowers. It’s a haunting meditation on motherhood and fame. It’s also the Echoes CD of the Month for October. The Danish singer, musician and composer is someone who is close to our hearts. I think Echoes gave Obel her first national exposure in 2010, when she released her debut album, Philharmonics. We interviewed her, and she played live on the show. That album was a CD of the Month, as were Citizen of Glass in 2016 and Myopia in 2020. How her second album, Aventine, missed being a CD of the Month is a mystery to me. Six years after Myopia, she brings us The Meaning of Flowers. Join John Diliberto when he goes gardening through Agnes Obel’s The Meaning of Flowers on Echoes from PRX.
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| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Oct 5, 2026 – Program 2640A | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | Time Table | Two by Twilight |
| 0:06:00 | Agnes Obel | The Meaning of Flowers | The Meaning of Flowers |
| 0:10:21 | Liquid Bloom & Akriza | Tea Here Now Act One | Tea Here Now |
| 0:14:42 | Joshua Hill | Blue Left Hand | Cowboy Dream (Acceptance Is An Arrow) |
| 0:19:50 | Bill Nelson | Lumiluxe | Magical Thinking |
| 0:23:05 | Radiohead | Codex | The King Of Limbs |
| 0:29:30 | Michael Hewett | Gold (Live) (excerpt) | Victoria Place – Echoes Live 23 |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Agnes Obel | Gemini | The Meaning of Flowers |
| 0:35:11 | Bonobo | Fire on the Water (feat Arooj Aftab) | Distance in Static |
| 0:38:07 | Tim Horne | Biota | Transmutation |
| 0:43:23 | Break | ||
| 0:44:39 | Agnes Obel | Blood so Red | The Meaning of Flowers |
| 0:50:27 | Bombay Dub Orchestra | View From Space (Vlastur Remix) | View From Space [EP] |
| 0:55:12 | BALTHVS | Year of the Snake | MANIFEST |
| 0:59:00 | Bluetech | Night Vale (excerpt) | Sci-Fi Lullabies |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | R. Carlos Nakai | Crystal Radiance | Reconnections |
| 1:06:00 | Agnes Obel | Never Been | The Meaning of Flowers |
| 1:11:00 | Various | Others | Gemstones VII [CYD 0166] |
| 1:15:08 | Redshift | Mission Creep | Life To Come |
| 1:23:36 | Deepspace | Atlas Minor – Droid.Botanist | The Atlas Sector |
| 1:29:30 | Felsman & Tiley | Kind (excerpt) | Protomensch |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Agnes Obel | Faustian Deal | The Meaning of Flowers |
| 1:34:20 | Radium88 | Places Only Visited In Dreams | Perpetual Emotion Machine |
| 1:39:21 | Tim Farrell | Echoes Location | Hidden Treasure |
| 1:45:39 | Break | ||
| 1:46:52 | Agnes Obel | Don’t Look Down | The Meaning of Flowers |
| 1:50:03 | Quiet Resonance | Breath of Defiance | Flying Against the Wind |
On the next Echoes, downtempo artist Bonobo goes even more chill with his album, Distance in Static. And on the acoustic side, we’ll hear the latest from finger-style virtuoso Tim Farrell, Hidden Treasure. John Diliberto digs it up on Echoes from PRX.
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, Oct 6, 2026 – Program 2640B | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:00:59 | Morcheeba | Escape the Chaos | Escape the Chaos |
| 0:06:03 | Sherry Finzer | Mystére | Clear Blue Sky: Solo Flute Soundscapes Vol 1 |
| 0:10:03 | Beck | In the Night | Ride Lonesome |
| 0:12:56 | Encounters, Bluetech | Whisper (Air Mix) | Whisper (Single) |
| 0:17:38 | Hermanos Gutiérrez | Canto Andino | Los Ojos Del Cóndor |
| 0:20:44 | Agnes Obel | Jenn’s on the Way | The Meaning of Flowers |
| 0:23:28 | Tycho | Adrift | Dive |
| 0:29:30 | Message to Bears | Half Light (excerpt) | Tired Eyes Waking Hearts |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery | Red Dragon | The Roaring Waves |
| 0:34:01 | Alex Amor | Seeing Angels | Heavenly Bodies |
| 0:37:29 | Bonobo | Drift | Distance in Static |
| 0:41:56 | Break | ||
| 0:42:58 | BJ Cole With Guy Jackson (feat. Michael Messer) | The Calm | Transparent Music 2 |
| 0:46:42 | Elephant Stone | A Beautiful Fate | ASHA |
| 0:49:48 | Shekina Rose | Angelic Soul Calling | Angelic Soul Calling (single) |
| 0:53:12 | Mark Isham | Tales of the Street Piano | At the Carousel Club |
| 0:59:00 | I Think Like Midnight | Echo Celeste (excerpt) | Warm Seclusion Structure |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Quiet Resonance | Slip Stream | Flying Against the Wind |
| 1:06:00 | Tim Farrell | Hidden Treasure | Hidden Treasure |
| 1:09:40 | Danny Keane | Passing Time | Kinesis |
| 1:12:57 | Locust | White Light (feat. Olive Kimoto) | Spectral+ |
| 1:17:46 | Bill Nelson | Django The Magic Cat | Magical Thinking |
| 1:23:27 | Julia Holter | Fantasy | Materia |
| 1:29:30 | Jim Kimo West & Michael Whalen | Malibu Breeze (excerpt) | Two Shores |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Rodrigo Y Gabriela | Simurgh | Our Home |
| 1:40:47 | All India Radio | When You Are Here | Red Shadow Landing |
| 1:44:53 | Kaskade & BUNT | Comes Back Around | Origin |
| 1:48:39 | Break | ||
| 1:49:25 | Agnes Obel | Beyond the Sun | The Meaning of Flowers |
| 1:51:23 | Chick Corea | What Game Shall We Play Today | Some Time Ago (Live in Germany 1972) |