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Sound becomes color, color becomes aroma when we hear Azam Ali’s Synesthesia, Echoes November CD of the Month.

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.

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.

On the next Echoes, we get psychedelicized. We’ll explore psychedelic music from the 1960s right up through the electronic hallucinations of the 2000s. It’s Peace Love and blown minds.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Diane Arkenstone. Her release, Aquaria II: Ascension taps 90s electronic rhythms, siren wordless vocals, and electronic moods. Ascend with a Slow Flow Echoes.

We talk with Hani Rani about the ambient classical sound of her early work, and the more stormy and political direction of her latest recording: Non-Fiction-Piano Concerto in Four Movements.

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.

Get on the Peace Wagon. That's a new composition from new age and world fusion artist James Asher. We’ll also hear music from a new compilation called Music for the Lunar Halflight.

It's the 50th Anniversary of Brian Eno’s Another Green World. This album moved him out of art rock and into a sound that was totally new and uniquely Eno.

Electronic sounds from Argentina. Ulises Labaronni records on the British Din label as Sophos and Pabellon Sintético who teams up with American artist Paul Ellis of Veiled Portraits.

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.

AvaWaves talk about their new 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Big Ears Festival 2026 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.

On the next Echoes, new music from The Smile. That’s the project of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood. We’ll also hear the latest by Mitski, who explores the dark side of our psyche.

An Echoes Acoustic Thanksgiving for 2025 brings us an array of acoustic sounds to set the mood for this time of coming together.

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.

Echoes December CD of the Month is The Unified Field by All India Radio. All India Radio have been staples on Echoes with moody shoegaze ambiences and reverb-drenched melodies.

Hear New Age Ancient and Modern. Prompted by the January death of New Age pioneer Iasos, Echoes takes a spin through some early new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents.

Lose yourself in some Long Tracks. We’ll hear four epic pieces all spanning some 20 minutes each. It may be a TikTok world, but Echoes brings us the epics, not just the tidbits.

We enter the world of Chant. From Abbess Hildegard von Bingen to contemporary musicians exploring a medieval sound, we’ll hear voices descending from the heavens and tuning the spirit.

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 unveil The Best Albums of 2025 on Echoes. It's a list unlike any other, which you should probably realize if you listen to Echoes. 

New music from the artist formerly known as Talitha Rise and Rise. Now she’s using her real name, Jo Beth Young. The music is still as magical on her latest release, Broken Spells.

It’s the 50th Anniversary of another iconic work by Tangerine Dream, Ricochet. It’s a half-live, half-studio album that saw the dream getting more rhythmic and energized.

We’ll hear something from the first chanteuse of trip-hop, Beth Gibbons. She was the voice of Portishead, but now she’s solo. We’ll also hear music by Olivia Chaney from Circus of Desire.

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

Seasonal sounds from Will Ackerman & Friends, including Jill Haley, David Cullen, Kori Linae Carothers and Jeff Oster. Then it’s the California Guitar Trio on their 18 strings.

We remember musicians who left us in 2025. Among them, Joseph Byrd of the United States of America, Nicky Ryan from the Enya triumvirate, Jamshied Sharifi and most tragically, Mark Dwane.

Flutist Nicholas Gunn casts back across his career with the album, 30, marking 30 years since Music from the Grand Canyon. He’s evolved a lot since then going from tribal to trance.

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.

An Echoes Winter Solstice: a soundscape of snow shrouded trees and silent saguaro cacti. There are no Christmas Carols, but a sleigh ride into the celestial and chilled side of the season.

New music by STS9. Born out of the haze of Santa Cruz’s hallucinogenic culture, they have a new album called Human Dream — A Journey Through the Human Condition and Cosmic Connection.

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.

Zanias is an Australian electronic artist who has been working in the Berlin EDM scene for a decade. But her new album taps a goth side akin to Dead Can Dance. It’s called Ecdysis.

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

New music by Abby Sage. Her debut album is called The Rot. She says “The Rot album focuses on the decomposition and reconstruction of everything she was taught growing up.”

A legend of dub on the next Echoes when we talk to producer Adrian Sherwood. He’s worked with artists like Creation Rebel, Keith LeBlanc, and more. His new album is The Collapse of Everything.

Dance in 2026 with An Echoes Ambient Trance 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 unveil The Best Albums of 2025 on Echoes. It's a list unlike any other, which you should probably realize if you listen to Echoes. 

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.

Jill Haley and Deborah Martin orchestrate a time-bending meeting of electronics, oboe and piano on Rendering Time. It was on the Echoes Best of 2025 and is the January 2026 CD of the Month.

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.

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.

We celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Epsilon in Malaysian Pale, the second solo album by Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese. It’s hailed as a masterpiece of ambient and electronic music.

We celebrate the 40th anniversary of Patrick O’Hearn’s debut album, Ancient Dreams. This signature release was a road map of mood and mystery and set the tone for the Private Music label.

Marissa Nadler is something beyond a singer-songwriter. Her seductive voice is wrapped in elaborate stories and bathed in psychedelic overtones and reverb.

New music from Falling You. It’s the brainchild of producer John Michael Zorko who creates evocative, haunting themes with a collection of dream pop divas on the new album, Metanoia.

The Medieval electronics of Qntal. This brilliant German group, fronted by vocalist Sigrid Hausen, turns medieval texts into electronica songs that seem to come from a cosmic cathedral.

It’s another Journey into Long Tracks on the next Echoes. We’ll be hearing the title track to Michael Hoenig’s Departure from the Northern Wastelands, some Mike Oldfield, Nils Frahm, and more.