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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.

A Slow Flow Echoes drifts through Ann Licater’s solo flute album, Between the Stars, and then heads into perilous electronics with Thanaco and Dask’s album, Ships in the Sky.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Haushka. The German pianist likes to insert strange objects on the strings of his piano, in the tradition of John Cage. His latest album is Philanthropy.

If you can’t wait for summer, Echoes has a record for you: Ludovico Einaudi’s The Summer Portraits. The Italian composer and pianist sculpts delicate chamber music breezes.

MAPS is the recording persona of James Chapman.  Best known for dream pop releases, his last two albums, Counter Melody and Counter Continuo have been pure joyous, electronic bliss. 

New music by guitarist Carl Weingarten. He’s been recording various angles of progressive music for decades, specializing in slide guitar. He has a new album of pastoral moods.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Robot Koch. This musician who has been on the edges of electronica and EDM for years goes full new age on an album of drifting moods called Allow.

Music by The Silk Road Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens. They’ve taken a more Americana turn since Giddens took the reins from founder Yo-Yo Ma, but they still have that global aesthetic.

It’s a journey with an Icon when we celebrate the 105th Birthday of Indian sitar master, Ravi Shankar. His music spanned from classical Indian ragas to films to world fusion.

Peter Gregson is a classically-trained cellist, who went into ambient chamber music on 2021's Patina, adding synthesizers and processing to his strings. He has a new, eponymous recording.

John Diliberto takes you on the music high of Big Ears 2025 exploring music by the artists he experienced at the festival across its four days and over 100 acts.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music from Anoushka Shankar who has released the third and final EP of her Trilogy. It’s called Chapter III: We Return to Light. We bring you to the light.

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.

Get immersed in the Nanocluster with Immersion and Suss, live. This collaboration travels the borders of ambient, country and electronic music on their album, Nanocluster Volume 3.

Joe Boyd is a legend in music from producing Pink Floyd and Nick Drake to his Hannibal world music label, and more. Now he's written a book about the influence of world music on western culture.

We hear new music by SINE, the German electronic producer who also runs the Sine Music label. He has a new solo release called Impuls. We surf the Sine waves on Echoes.

New music from Vega Trails. It’s a group put together by Portico Quartet bassist Milo Fitpatrick and takes a jazz-inflected, chamber music approach to cinematic compositions.

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.

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.

It’s the sound of the planet on the next Echoes, as we celebrate Earth Day 2025. We’ll hear music inspired by the vistas and life on earth, as well as music made from the sounds of the earth.

Lost Records; Bloom & Rage is a video game with am impressive score from Ruth Radelet of Chromatics and Milk & Bone. We pick up our controller and play it tonight on Echoes.

Brian Fechino is a Nashville guitarist but his sound moves more toward New Age moods and ambient designs on his new EP, A Safe Place. We’ll hear some of his deep moods on a Slow Flow Echoes.

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.

Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra by Synergy (Larry Fast) was released 50 years ago. There were no guitars or drums on the album, just synthesizers creating epic, orchestral tracks.

Music from Marcator, a German guitarist who was been self-releasing his own music but is now signed to the Prudence label. His new album is a suite of ambient Americana tracks called PanAroma.

Music by 9 Theory and Torii Wolf from their collaboration, Soft Realms. 9 Theory is producer Gabe Lehner and Torii Wolf is a singer and producer who comes out of the Massive Attack mold.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, more music from Larry Fast and his album, Synergy - Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra. We’ll hear tracks from this epic debut on its 50th anniversary.

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.

The Echoes May CD of the Month is a deep trip into melodic ambience with The Precious Dark by David Helpling and Eric “The” Taylor. It’s an album that takes you on a journey.

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.

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

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.

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.

The return of Ancient Future. The band that coined the term World Fusion in 1978 has their first significant release in nearly 25 years. I talk to founder and guitarist Matthew Montfort.

Music from Suzanne Vega’s latest album, Flying with Angels. It’s an atmospheric album with a broader, more philosophical outlook that ingests the state of the world and turns it back out.

Air’s Moon Safari album gets an epic and ambient rework by Vegyn. It’s called Blue Moon Safari. Vegyn maintains the downtempo mood of the original but takes it into new atmospheres.

We hear the communion of Ian Boddy and Erik Wollo in a live performance of synthesizers and guitar. The album is called Transmissions and it finds the two in a more energized sound.

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.

New music by guitarist Carl Weingarten. He’s been recording various angles of progressive music for decades, specializing in slide guitar. He has a new album of pastoral moods.

Music from Hollan Holmes. The Texas based electronic artist is a disciple of Steve Roach and you can hear it on his new album, Sacred Places. It’s in the sacred space of a Slow Flow Echoes.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new space music by Hollan Holmes from his album, Sacred Places and we’ll hear a 1970s French space music pioneer, Zanov from his latest album, Lost in the Future.

In the current of a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Syndromeda off the album, Liftoff to Infinity, and Maps has a new release of joyful, upbeat electronics called Counter Continuo.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, New music by Khruangbin. We’ll hear something from their album, A La Sala. We’ll also hear a new track from the ambient firm of Lane, Gregorius and Smith.