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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.

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.