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Daily Echoes

Friday, Aug 7, 2026 – Echoes #2631E
On a Slow Flow Echoes it's new music by Helios, one persona of Keith Kenniff, who also records as Goldmund and Mint Julep. His album, Espera, is a downtempo electronic excursion. →

Thursday, Aug 6, 2026 – Echoes #2631D
We put Charlie Cunningham in the picture with his album, Frame. This English singer song-writer has echoes of John Martyn and Nick Drake and atmospheres of Brian Eno and Harold Budd. →

Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026 – Echoes #2631C
Mathieu David Gagnon talks about his blend of Classical music and Progressive Rock, as heard in the modern electronic chamber music project, Flore Laurentienne. →

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 – Echoes #2631B
Sheila Chandra is releasing a collection of live recordings called Echo, which has two tracks from her first Echoes Living Room Concert, including “Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean.” →

Monday, August 3, 2026 – Echoes #2631A
Michael Stearns and Robert Rich are artists who have pushed the borders of electronic music while creating their own, highly individualistic sounds. The join on Reunion of Breath and Waves. →
Wordless Echoes
A non-stop, seamless journey into an instrumental music soundscape where your mind can wander. No lyric vocals, no announcer, no interviews, no ads and no underwriting, just three to six hours of uninterrupted music:
Wordless Echoes – The Best Of Echoes 2026 So Far – The Top 30
Here's a continuous stream of the complete Top 30 of The Best of Echoes 2026. . . So Far. Veteran artists and debuts, electronic and acoustic. World fusion and deep space. It's the best of your Echoes bliss.
Wordless Echoes – American Landscapes pt 1
Wordless Echoes – American Landscapes pt 2
Wordless Echoes – American Landscapes
A three-hour soundscape inspired by the landscapes of America, including Steve Roach, Jill Haley, Peter Kater, Paul Winter, Tycho, Pat Metheny, Patrick O'Hearn, and many more.
Wordless Echoes – American Landscapes 2018
Music inspired by the mountains, rivers, plains and shorelines of the United States, including recordings by Paul Winter, Ry Cooder, Pat Metheny and many others.
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May 25 (#2621A)
We remember on an Echoes Memorial Day Soundscape with music to contemplate the carnage of war. We'll hear songs from Loreena McKennitt, The Zombies, Hammock, Hans Zimmer and more. |
May 26 (#2621B)
We remember Philip Aaberg, the pianist and composer best-known for his solo piano albums on Windham Hill. We'll also hear Steve Roach's live album La Rosa, and the Sanctity of Rust by Hollan Holmes. |
May 27 (#2621C)
The enchantment of Lucinda Chua. The British singer and cellist has a masterful, perfectly-pitched album called Yian. It translates as swallow. Lucinda Chua flies on Echoes. |
May 28 (#2621D)
It's alt-rock instrumentals from WMD off the album Deliquesce. We don't know if that stands for Weapons of Mass Destruction, but we guarantee that you won't be destroyed. |
May 29 (#2621E)
Ride the current of a Slow Flow Echoes. We'll hear music from Lena Natalia. The Chicago based pianist is creating ambient piano works on her album, Hidden Treasures. |
Jun 1 (#2622A)
An album inspired by an acid trip, the rising moon and religious oppression. It’s The Second Coming Was a Moonrise, and it’s the new release by Hammock. It’s Echoes June CD of the Month. |
Jun 2 (#2622B)
New music by Secret Sky, a group comprised of musicians from Loreena McKennitt's band, fronted by cellist and singer Caroline Lavelle. The new album is called Opium. |
Jun 3 (#2622C)
On a Slow Flow Echoes, a startling duet between Iranian kamencheh musician Kayhan Kalhor and Malian kora player Toumani Diabate. We'll also hear some solo work by Michelle Qureshi. |
Jun 4 (#2622D)
New music from Shearwater, the dreamy alt-rock project of Jonathan Meiberg. The new album is The New World. We’ll also hear the first single from Love Spirals Downwards singer, Suzanne Perry. |
Jun 5 (#2622E)
Music by Fenne Lily who has released her third album, Big Picture. We’ll also hear from an emerging electronic pop artist, Skyemoon Maria, with an album called Dreaming Out Loud. |
Jun 8 (#2623A)
Syrian-Armenian-American singer and producer KÁRYYN’s music lives at the intersection of sound, spirit, and physics. It explores her inner turmoil through the language of physics. |
Jun 9 (#2623B)
It's cosmic vibrations on the next Echoes, when we hear Norway's Julia Gjersten from the Cosmic Vibrations 4 compilation. We'll also hear old music redone with Moby's album, Resound NYC. |
Jun 10 (#2623C)
On the next Echoes we go whaling with Rone from his album Megaptera. It’s inspired by his studies of Humpback whales. He creates an electronic tone poem to these oceanic behemoths. |
Jun 11 (#2623D)
Music by Beach House. They have an EP called Become that continues their dream pop sound. We'll also hear The National from their album, The First Two Pages of Frankenstein. |
Jun 12 (#2623E)
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Nicholas Gunn from his single, Thoughts of You. He's returned to his flute after a dalliance with synthesizers. We'll also hear the Nashville Ambient Ensemble. |
Jun 15 (#2624A)
As Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff created the seminal electronic space album, Zero Time, in 1971. We celebrate this epic release on its 55th anniversary. |
Jun 16 (#2624B)
They are considered icons in the ambient world but haven’t released an album in 13 years. Boards of Canda return with a new album of edgy electronic ambiences called Inferno. |
Jun 17 (#2624C)
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from Brazilian electronic artist Anna off her album, Intentions. We'll also hear a collaboration from oboist Jill Haley and electronic artist Deborah Martin. |
Jun 18 (#2624D)
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by guitarist Tom Caufield. He's a fingerstyle guitarist who always finds novel settings for his instrument. His album is The Whisper Resistance. |
Jun 19 (#2624E)
Let the sunshine in as Echoes orchestrate a soundscape for the Summer Solstice. We'll hear music from Erik Wollo, George Winston, Mimi Page, and Craig Padilla and Marvin Allen and more. |
Jun 22 (#2625A)
Hammock talk about the Christian experiences, LSD trips and disaffection with current politics that fuel their album, The Second Coming was a Moonrise. |
Jun 23 (#2625B)
Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore come together for an album of harp, voice and synthesizer that draws inspiration from cathedrals and improvisations. |
Jun 24 (#2625C)
New music by Amaara, the recording persona of actress Kaelen Ohm. Her new album is Child of Venus. We'll also hear from guitarist Tom Caufield's new album, The Whisper Resistance. |
Jun 25 (#2625D)
You've heard Tom Eaton with FLOW and the Brothers trio and helming countless productions. On his own, he makes dreamy ambient music, as on his album, Weathering. |
Jun 26 (#2625D)
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from Caterina Barbieri’s album, Myuthafoo, a recording of mesmerizing electronic patterns. We'll also hear a project from trumpeter Jeff Oster called Howling Loon. |
Jun 29 (#2626A)
Echoes CD of the Month rides a post-rock sound with Unwed Sailor. They embrace bass-led, instrumental music with post-rock dynamics that glide between delirious heaviness & breezy melodicism. |
Jun 30 (#2626B)
It’s the American Electronic Revolution, as Echoes brings you 25 electronic artists celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. Hear the music that has created an entirely new American sound. |
Jul 1 (#2626C)
Music by London Grammar who team up with electronic producer, Sebastian. We'll also hear Caroline Lavelle who is the cellist with Loreena McKennitt and the singer with Secret Sky. |
Jul 2 (#2626D)
Join us for the sultry bedroom sound of Cigarettes After Sex. We have a single from them and some space music out of Australia by Jim Ottaway, who continues shooting for the stars. |
Jul 3 (#2626E)
On a July 4th weekend we take you into twanguility with an Ambient Americana Soundscape. It's country and western distilled though Brian Eno ambiences, but still with that country twang. |
Jul 6 (#2627A)
Get ready for the Best of Echoes 2026 So Far. As we cross the midpoint of the year, we hear the music that rose above the noise: 30 albums of sounds that open up new worlds. |
Jul 7 (#2627B)
We have music by Shekina Rose, a singer from Sedona who’s got a song for whales. We'll also hear the electronic Arabic fusion of Didon remixed by Bombay Dub Orchestra. |
Jul 8 (#2627C)
Ben Neill has been at the bleeding edge of new music for decades with his Mutantrumpet. His book, Diffusing Music - Trajectories of Sonic Democratization, has just been published in paperback. |
Jul 9 (#2627D)
Music to soothe your soul by Lis Addison. Her album is called Songs from the Mara, inspired by Kenya and her environmental work there. It's part of the chilled environment of Echoes. |
Jul 10 (#2627E)
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Sigur Ros. The Icelandic post-rock band's album, ATTA, goes into deeply ambient modes. We'll also hear something from Mimi Page. |
Jul 13 (#2628A)
David Helpling and Scott Reich go Through the Thought Horizon. "If you can go through the thought horizon, then you're opening up all kinds of new experiences. You can exist beyond thought." |
Jul 14 (#2628B)
The return of Beth Orton. She first fused folk and electronica in the '90s, and now she's gone even deeper with The Ground Above, a haunting, self-produced album of intimate songs. |
Jul 15 (#2628C)
Music by Slowdive, the shoegaze band who came to renown in the 1990s. After a long pause, they released their album, Everything Is Alive. We’ll also hear a track from VEiiLA. |
Jul 16 (#2628D)
Echoes brings you downtempo bossa nova when we hear music from Eric Hilton and Natalia Clavier of Thievery Corporation. Their album Corazon Kintsugi taps their sultry Latin side. |
Jul 17 (#2628E)
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Quiet Resonance, a guitarist from Mississippi who creates ambient landscapes. His album is Snowblind. We'll also hear from George FitzGerald. |
Jul 20 (#2629A)
It's a meeting of ambient music pioneers. Michael Stearns and Robert Rich talk about Reunion of Breath and Waves, the first collaboration of these two ground breaking artists. |
Jul 21 (#2629B)
Inspired by her pregnancy and birth of her first child, Eartheater's album Heavenly Body: If I'm the Bottle, You're the Message is a meditation of gothic dimensions. |
Jul 22 (#2629C)
Music from the husband-and-wife electronica duo Pink Sky. They have a synth-infused dreampop sound on their album, Disenchantment. We’ll also hear music from Robert Schroeder. |
Jul 23 (#2629D)
Electronic sounds from Chronotope Project off the album, Chronology. I also have a producer from Quebec who is in the Rufus du Sol mode of downtempo, moody songs. He records as CRi. |
Jul 24 (#2332D)
On a Slow Flow Echoes music from Penguin Café off their album, Rain Before Seven. We'll also hear harpist Peter Sterling from his album, Mystic Voyager. |
Jul 27 (#2630A)
Spotted Peccary Music has been releasing signature ambient music albums since 1986. On their 40th Anniversary, founders Deborah Martin and Howard Givens talk about the genesis of the label. |
Jul 28 (#2630B)
Music from the flaming guitar duo, Rodrigo Y Gabriela. We’ll also hear Lisa Molinaro, a classically trained violist. She was a member of Modest Mouse and Talkdemonic. Her album is Blind Trust. |
Jul 29 (#2630C)
Lay back on the couch and listen to singer-songwriter Benjamin Jayne. When he’s not making vaguely psychedelic folk music, he’s a psychiatrist. He has a deeply melancholy album called Broken. |
Jul 30 (#2630D)
Get ready for some powerful darkness with music by Myrkur. The Danish singer is categorized as Black Metal, but really it’s just darker dream pop. She has an album called Spine. |
Jul 31 (#2630E)
On a Slow Flow Echoes, drift through the electronic sounds of ELEON’s album called Daithi. We'll also hear Jim Kimo West's album, Of Wood and Spirit: American Guitar Stories. |
Aug 3 (#2631A)
Michael Stearns and Robert Rich are artists who have pushed the borders of electronic music while creating their own, highly individualistic sounds. The join on Reunion of Breath and Waves. |
Aug 4 (#2631B)
Sheila Chandra is releasing a collection of live recordings called Echo, which has two tracks from her first Echoes Living Room Concert, including “Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean.” |
Aug 5 (#2615A)
Mathieu David Gagnon talks about his blend of Classical music and Progressive Rock, as heard in the modern electronic chamber music project, Flore Laurentienne. |
Aug 6 (#2631D)
We put Charlie Cunningham in the picture with his album, Frame. This English singer song-writer has echoes of John Martyn and Nick Drake and atmospheres of Brian Eno and Harold Budd. |
Aug 7 (#2631E)
On a Slow Flow Echoes it's new music by Helios, one persona of Keith Kenniff, who also records as Goldmund and Mint Julep. His album, Espera, is a downtempo electronic excursion. |
Echoes Extended
Music streams that travel the Echoes soundwaves, and sometimes venture further afield. You won’t have John’s mellifluous hosting, but we hope you’ll enjoy these non-narrated musical journeys.

Ambient New Year's Eve 2024 (non-narrated)
Dance in 2025 with a non-narrated, non-stop, 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.

Ambient New Year's Eve Soundscape
A Downtempo Ambient soundscape for New Year's Eve, with a beat. Four Hours of un-interrupted, non-narrated groove, for celebrating, chilling, and contemplating the new year.

Extended EchoesThe Best of Echoes 2025
The complete stream of all 30 of the Best Albums of 2025 on Echoes. It's a list unlike any other, which you should probably realize if you listen to Echoes.

Extended EchoesThe Best of Echoes 2025...so far...
It’s the Best of Echoes 2025...so far... We’ve selected the 35 best releases to rise above this year so far. You can hear all 35, uninterrupted, on Echoes Online.

Best-of Echoes 2024The Top 30
It has been a great year for new music and we’ll pick out our Top 30 albums for your delight. We count down the complete top 30, in this uninterrupted stream.

An Echoes Soundscape for Summer's End

An Echoes Summer Solstice Soundscape

Echoes ExtendedThe Best of Echoes 2024, So Far
Listen to an uninterrupted, non-narrated stream of the complete list of 30 best releases of the first-half of 2024.

Echoes ExtendedA Winter Holiday Soundscape
Over six hours of music for the coming of winter, icy landscapes, and maybe a few Christmas carols as well, all presented without interruption or narration.

Extended Echoes: The Best Albums of 2023
The Best Albums of 2023 on Echoes. Listen to our 30 Favorite albums of the year covering the range of the Echoes Soundscape, uninterrupted by announcements, in a continuous stream.

Best Albums of 2022
We count-down the full list of the top 30 Best Albums of 2022, on this uninterrupted, non-narrated stream.

An Winter Holiday Soundscape
Eight hours of uninterrupted music for the winter holidays, featuring classic carols and original tunes

An Ambient Americana Soundscape
Three hours of uninterrupted music for Independence Day, exploring the country-tinged Twangquility of Ambient Americana.

A Summer Solstice Soundscape
Three hours of uninterrupted music for the longest day, and shortest night of the year, as we celebrate the beginning of summer.

Ambient Music of the African Diaspora
Four hours of uninterrupted music exploring African and black influences in Ambient music, from Jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and traditional African music.

Christmas 2021
Seven hours of uninterrupted music for the holiday season, featuring wintery atmospheres, creative reinterpretations of Christmas Carols, and original holiday songs, all in a continuous, non-narrated stream.

Halloween Soundscape
Four hours of uninterrupted music from the dark side, exploring the worlds of ghosts, doom, and the unexplained, in an Echoes Halloween Soundscape.

Ambient Chamber Music
Four hours of uninterrupted, non-narrated Ambient Chamber Music, exploring the intersection of Classical, Electronic, Ambient, and Downtempo musics.

The Best of Echoes 2021, So Far
Listen to an uninterrupted, non-narrated stream of the complete list of 30 best releases of the first-half of 2021.

Stream: Week 24, 2021
Eight hours of continuous, uninterrupted music from Echoes, featuring Agnes Obel, Moby, Erik Wollo, Stephan Micus, and many more.

Stream: Week 15, 2021
Seven hours of continuous, uninterrupted music from Echoes, featuring TONTO's Expanding Headband, Lisa Gerrard, Jean-Michel Jarre, and many more.

Stream: Week 10, 2021
Eight hours of continuous, uninterrupted music from Echoes, featuring Pat Metheny, Steve Roach, Mark Dwane, Dead Can Dance, and more.

Best-of Echoes 2020
All thirty of our Best-of 2020 picks, presented without interruption, in a continuous stream. We start at number 30, and work our way up to our top pick for the year.

Stream: Christmas 2020
Six hours of continuous, uninterrupted music for the Christmas season from Echoes, featuring tunes from Enya, George Winston, Tori Amos, Sara McLaughlin, and many more.

Stream: Week 45, 2020
Six hours of continuous, uninterrupted music from Echoes, featuring Kraftwerk, Ane Brun, Steve Roach, and more.

Stream: Week 35, 2020
Six hours of continuous, uninterrupted music from Echoes, featuring Erik Wollo & Michael Stearns, California Guitar Trio, Tycho, and more.

Stream: Week 34, 2020
Six hours of continuous, uninterrupted music from Echoes, featuring Agnes Obel, Peter Gabriel, Mark Dwane, and more.

Stream: Week 32, 2020
Six hours of continuous, uninterrupted music from Echoes, featuring Shpongle, Mark Dwane, Thomas Dolby, and more.

Stream: Week 31, 2020
Six hours of continuous, uninterrupted music from Echoes, featuring California Guitar Trio, Dave Bessel, Nils Frahm, and more.

Stream: Week 30, 2020
Six hours of continuous, uninterrupted music from Echoes, featuring Michael Stipe, Marketa Irglova, Enya, and more.

















































