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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. 

We've been playing the electronic music of Vic Hennegan for decades on Echoes. Now we will be talking to Jaymie Rose Hennegan who has just made her debut with the album, Transition.

Two singers on the edge. We'll hear KÁRYYN with a song remixed by Cosey Fanni Tutti of Throbbing Gristle, and Sheenah Ko from her album, Transformation.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from EDM artist Sasha. He scored the music for the immersive exhibition, Da Vinci Genius. It flows from orchestral to ambient moods in a cinematic expanse.

David Arkenstone talks about his album, Winterlude. It’s a seasonal tone poem without Christmas carols and without sleigh bells. Join John Diliberto for this exclusive interview.

Trevor Gordon Hall is a master finger-style guitarist who also plays a custom-designed instrument called the Kalimbatar, that combines the African kalimba with an acoustic guitar.

Get your shopping list ready for The Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes. It has been a great year for new music and we’ll pick out our Top 30 albums for your delight. We count them down.

Echoes doesn't have 12 days of Christmas but we do have Twelve CD of the Month Picks. We'll go through them, first forward from January and then backwards from December.

Many musicians who lit up the Echoes sky left us this year. They may have left the planet but their music remains. John Diliberto remembers, with Echoes in Memoriam.

Get ready for the big chill on An Echoes Winter Solstice. Echoes’ John Diliberto creates a soundscape of snow-shrouded trees, silent saguaro cacti and white-out conditions, with no Christmas Carols.

We create a soundscape for the season. Original songs mix with carols as we play music inspired by the season in all its quiet majesty and interior warmth. Original songs mix with carols.

Get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Night Before Christmas. It’s a time when life seems suspended between the Christmas build-up and the explosion of Christmas morning.

It's a soundscape for that long winter’s nap. Hear traditional carols reinvented and new carols for the 21st century. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night with an Echoes Christmas.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, Kinobe channels 60s instrumental film sounds on his album, Over the Horizon. We'll also hear Jeff Oster's downtempo, low-fi ambient jazz.

Robert Schroeder is one of the last musicians to release in the classic sequencer 1970s with his debut album, Harmonic Ascendant. He has a new album that expands that sound called Observer.

We head into the sci-fi regions of Neon Blue Utopia by Deepspace, the CD of the Month for January. It’s the 16th album from this Australian musician and an immersive web of ambient melodies.

Dance in 2025 with An Echoes Ambient New Year’s Eve. All systems are plugged in, and the chill is turned up to 11, as we swing in on electronic sounds old, new and beyond time and space.

We take a look back at The Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes. It was a great year for new music and we’ll pick out our Top 30 albums for your delight. We count them down.

On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear music by Erik Wøllo. The Norwegian electronic musician unplugs the synths and makes an album of all guitar called Cloud of Strings.

New music from Explosions in the Sky. The atmospheric guitar ensemble has their first proper new album in seven years. They’re back with an ominously titled release. It’s just called End.

Danish composer Trentemøller has been crafting electronic pop since the early 2000s. He has a new album called Dreamweaver that taps his influences from dream-pop to shoegaze.

Rena Jones and KiloWatts come on to talk about their new album Caesura. It's a more complex take on electronica, combining synthesizers with Rena's violin, viola and cello orchestrations.

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.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music from Kevin Keller. The ambient chamber music artist takes a turn to the Middle Ages, adapting hymns from Abbess Hildegard von Bingen on his album, Evensong.

Music from the second posthumous release by cellist David Darling. Mickey Houlihan has taken some of Darling’s unfinished recordings and put them into shape on the album, Other Worlds.

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.