Tubular Bells’ composer Mike Oldfield talks about Ommadawn, his two-sided epic from 1975. It’s partly an homage to his mother, who died during the recording, and her Irish roots.
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Wednesday, Nov 5, 2025 – Ommadawn’s 50th
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Tuesday, Nov 4, 2025 – New Music from Hammock
The ambient guitar duo, Hammock, return with a new album of inner contemplations and moody guitar excursions called Nevertheless. It’s a music that sits somewhere between here and there.
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Monday, Nov 3, 2025: Azam Ali’s Synesthesia
Azam Ali of Vas and Niyaz returns with a new solo album, Synesthesia, exploring themes of sensory perception, loss, fear and love. It’s Echoes November CD of the Month.
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Echoes Weekend: November 1-2, 2025: Azam Ali Interview
The voice of Azam Ali is heard on TV and films, with the groups Vas and Niyaz, and on several solo releases in a mix of ancient Persia and modern modalities. Her new album is Synesthesia.
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Friday, Oct 31, 2025 – An Echoes Halloween
John Diliberto is your crypt keeper of sonic terror, creating a soundscape of whispered voices, ambient ghosts and hip death goddesses as we soundtrack an Echoes Halloween.
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Thursday, Oct 30, 2025 – New Music from Rival Consoles
An electronic excursion with Rival Consoles. Landscape from Memory is the ninth studio by the UK artist, Ryan Lee West, and it may be his most kinetic and accessible yet.
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Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 – Arc De Soleil
We go surf music country twang with Arc De Soleil. Despite that description, they’re a band from Sweden led by guitarist Daniel Kadawatha, and they strike a psychedelic sound.
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Tuesday, Oct 28, 2025 – Two Artists from Japan
Two artists from Japan: Kitaro from his album, An Enchanted Evening, which has just been reissued, and Hiroki Okano from his latest, Kyoumei. That translates as sympathy or resonance.
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Monday, October 27, 2025: Azam Ali Interview
The voice of Azam Ali is heard on TV and films, with the groups Vas and Niyaz, and on several solo releases in a mix of ancient Persia and modern modalities. Her new album is Synesthesia.
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Weekend, Oct 25-26, 2025: Bluetech’s Spacehop
Bluetech’s album, “Spacehop Chronicles 2” is an homage to Laika, the canine cosmonaut who died in space on Sputnik 2. Bluetech tells the tale of Laika and this headtrip of an album.