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One of the most influential albums of electro-pop turns 45, Metamatic by John Foxx. Musically adventurous and lyrically trenchant, it remains a timeless artifact of electronic music & pop.

Lush was one of the signature bands of 1990s Alternative rock and the 4AD label. Now, one of their singers, Emma Anderson has released her solo debut album, Pearlies and a Remix release.

We go east on the next Echoes for the second in a trilogy of albums by sitarist Anoushka Shankar. We’ll hear track from her EP, Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before the Dawn.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Numatik, He’s an American artist and, despite the name and steady pulse, he’s actually inspired by ecological and spiritual concerns in his music.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Mark Dwane. The synth-guitarist always has spacey psy-fi themes, and his new album is no exception. It’s called The Utopian Paradigm.

We remember David Lynch with music from his films, including themes from Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, and his album of 11th century hymns with Jocelyn Montgomery, Lux Vivens.

On the next Echoes, the spirit of Da Vinci transformed into electronic sound by electronic artist Sasha. Da Vinci Genius is an immersive exhibit on the life of the Renaissance polymath.

We'll hear a new collaboration between Immersion, the duo of Colin Newman and Malka Spigel, and the ambient country band called SUSS, where they both tap their inner Neu!

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by the Fractal Sextet, a improvisational fusion project from guitarist Jon Durant. Their album is Sky Full of Hope. We’ll also hear from Christoph Pabst.

Music out of Denmark by Sylfide. They are fronted by singer, harpist, songwriter, and composer Helene Dorthea Tungelund. She has an album called Blat Lys or Blue Light. It shines on Echoes.

Explore the Big Ears Festival 2025 with founder Ashley Capps plus music from Echoes artists appearing at the festival including Steve Roach, Michael Rother, and SUSS.

New music by Japanese Breakfast, the Philadelphia dream pop band fronted by Michelle Zauner. They have a new pastoral single off their album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).

Roll out the red carpet for Echoes at the GRAMMYs. We’ll hear music by nominees across multiple categories and artists including Anoushka Shankar, Andre 3000, Peter Gabriel and Taylor Swift.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by ambient chamber music composer Peter Gregson from his eponymously titled album, and a different kind of ambient chamber music by Tepon and his single, Wildroot.

We go east on the next Echoes for the second in a trilogy of albums by sitarist Anoushka Shankar. We’ll hear track from her EP, Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before the Dawn.

On the next Echoes, our February CD of the Month, Late Day Summer Breeze by Nashville filmmaker, artist, and bassist Dieter Spears. Join John Diliberto as we get out of the cold.

Mogwai has a new album called The Bad Fire. The Scotland-based post-rock band has coincidentally re-emerged at the same time as their American counterparts, Explosions in the Sky.

The Return of World Fusion. It seemed to fade away after the 1990s, but recently there’s been an influx of music charged by sounds from across the globe & spun with 21st century technology.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music from Thierry David. He’s been making inventive electronic music since 1987. In recent years he’s gone heavily ambient. He has a new album called Six Waves.

We head into space on the next Echoes when we hear music by Paul Ellis & Pabellón Sintético. It’s a trip through sequencer melodies and synchronized rhythms from Veiled Portraits.

On this Valentine’s Day Week, it’s Echoes of Love. We’ll explore love songs that take us to the sensual and the erotic, with music from Cigarettes After Sex, Lana Del Rey and more.

We enter a dream state with Kelly Lee Owens. She’s an electronic musician and singer who hovers between dreampop and EDM. John Diliberto drops a couple of tracks off her album Dreamstate.

New music from Numün. That’s a trio that includes Bob Holmes from SUSS and they’re making a pretty spacey ambient music on their latest, Opening. John Diliberto opens it on Echoes.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, the premiere of a single by Message to Bears, the musical alias of English multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander, who blends ambient, folk, post-rock, and electronic influences.

Get close to the one you love for Echoes of the Heart, a Valentine's Soundscape. John Diliberto brings you songs of love and sounds of sensuality for Valentine’s Day on Echoes.

We talk to Immersion and SUSS. These are two artists who you hear a lot on Echoes that have recently converged for a brilliant new album that is a true meeting of differing musical cultures.

New music by AeTopus from Bellingham, Washington. His latest album takes electronics into off-center rhythms and melodies that begin in abstraction and evolve into quiet grandeur.

New music by C37. That’s the moniker of British electronic artist Paul Cudby, who has been making chilled vignettes for a few years now. He has a new album, Into Thin Air.

New music by George Wallace. He began as a rock artist in the 1980s, but he turned to instrumental, electronic-based music that hovers between New Age and Progressive Rock.

New music by Wouter Kellerman, Eru Matsumoto and Chandrika Tandon. This trio of flutes, cello and voice create a world fusion meditation called Triveni. We travel its paths.

Two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim Kimo West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for Hawaiian slack key music.

It's Ambiences in Black when we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources, jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.

New music by Delrei. They are a guitar centric Italian group steeped in the sound of Spaghetti Westerns and Twin Peaks. We hit the trail to hear their twang from a new live album.

We have music from Dino Pacifici and Brannan Lane. Their new album is a slow dive into ethno-ambient soundscapes called Imaginary Horizons. We always bring you music of imagination.

New music from Bill Nelson in what seems to be an endless stream of new music. This one is called Studio Cadet and echoes the early 60s guitar band sound of The Ventures and The Shadows.

The March CD of the Month is a meeting of Krautrock & Ambient Country when Immersion get together with SUSS on the album, Nanocluster Volume 3. It sends western twang into ambient spaces.

We talk to a pioneer of electronic music, David Borden, the founding member of Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company. Their debut album from 1973 remains a classic today.

We hear new music by Hollie Kenniff. She’s the singer in the dreampop duo Mint Julep with her husband, Keith Kenniff. On her solo album For Forever, she goes purely ambient.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Michelle Qureshi. Sometimes she plays solo acoustic guitar. Sometimes she fires up the synthesizers. On her album, Be In This World, she does it all.

New music by Japanese Breakfast, the Philadelphia dream pop band fronted by Michelle Zauner. They have a new pastoral single off their album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).

New Zealand Electronic artist David Parsons left the planet in February. We remember him with a suite of his music that combined electronics with sitar and other world music elements.

It seems like only yesterday that Erik Wøllo released his album, Solastalgia and now he has new one, Where the River Widens. It’s inspired, once again, by his home in Norway.

We go back to the 1976 album, New Age of Earth by Ash Ra Tempel, the German band led by guitarist Manuel Göttsching. This album is pretty much a solo release of deep, floating ambient music.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, Ian Boddy teams up with German drummer and electronic musician Harold Grosskopf. Grosskopf played on several Klaus Schulze albums and in Ashra and Wallenstein.

Mogwai has a new album called The Bad Fire. The Scotland-based post-rock band has coincidentally re-emerged at the same time as their American counterparts, Explosions in the Sky.

It's the sounds of Ireland on a Celtic Soundscape for St. Patrick's Day. We head into the serene and mystic side of Ireland with music from Clannad, Enya, Afro Celt Sound System and more.

Ben Neill has been at the bleeding edge of new music for decades with his Mutantrumpet. Now he has a book, Diffusing Music - Trajectories of Sonic Democratization

Andy Bell wields guitar distortion in the shoegaze band called Ride. But on his new solo album, Pinball Wanderer, he takes a more dream pop, downtempo direction.

Echoes declares winter over with an Echoes Vernal Equinox Soundscape. We’ll hear music for the turning of the seasons and the turning of celestial events to drive winter away.

We enter a dream state with Kelly Lee Owens. She’s an electronic musician and singer who hovers between dreampop and EDM. John Diliberto drops a couple of tracks off her album Dreamstate.

It's a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf. They've created an album called Doppelganger that looks back at the golden age of Krautrock.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, we enter the temple of Steve Roach’s Sanctuary of Desire. We’ll go into one of the long, evolving tracks from this master of sequencer driven music.

Outkast’s Andre 3000 goes ambient and new age. We’ll hear music from the rapper’s solo debut album, New Blue Sun which is all instrumental and features no real beats and lots of flute.