Big Ears Festival 2026 will descend on Knoxville at the end of March with wave upon wave of new music sounds that challenge perceptions and open ears, Big. Ashley Capps talks about it all.
Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert inspired a wave of solo piano releases. It remains the best-selling solo piano album ever. We celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Deepspace is Australian electronic artist Mirko Ruckels. His recent albums, Neon Blue Utopia and Water Planets, are immersive ambient albums wrapped in science fiction stories.
It’s an orchestra of the imagination with music by Orchestra Indigo. This is a project of rock artist Rick Randlett. He goes into a cocktail lounge in space for his album, The Small Hours.
Travel through Heaven & Hell, the 1975 album by Vangelis on it’s 50th anniversary. He created an orchestra of sound with synthesizers and percussion. Hear it all on Echoes.
AvaWaves talk about their album, Heartbeat. Hot on the heels of their soundtrack to The Buccaneers, the keyboard and violin duo put a darker edge on their electric chamber music.
Deepspace is Australian electronic artist Mirko Ruckels. His recent albums, Neon Blue Utopia and Water Planets, are immersive ambient albums wrapped in science fiction stories.
Hani Rani has moved on from the ambient classical sound of her early work into something more stormy and political on Non-Fiction-Piano Concerto in Four Movements.
Electronic sounds from Argentina. Ulises Labaronni records on the British DiN label as Sophos, and Pabellon Sintético teams up with American artist Paul Ellis on Veiled Portraits.