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Our May CD of the Month is Counting Sunsets by the ambient country band, SUSS. They go into deep ambient terrain on this new album.

Keyboardist Tom Eaton and guitarist Vin Downes are veterans of work with Will Ackerman and are in a trio with Jeff Oster. They have an album of ambient duets called Until the Light Was Gone.

Get ready to be sliced and diced when we hear music by Wax Tailor, the French electronic artist who likes to cut-up archival voice samples. We'll hear from his album Fishing for Accidents.

Cigarettes After Sex has a new single, continuing his sultry, pillow-talk sound. We'll also hear Desire Marea, a daring artist from South Africa who might be that country's version of Bjork.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, the ambient guitar twang of The Royal Arctic Institute. We'll hear from their album, From Catharsis to Coma. We’ll also hear from Craig Padilla and Marvin Allen.

Gentle Giant made records during Prog Rock’s glory years in the 1970s and then quit. Their lead-singer, Derek Shulman, went on to a different kind of music legacy. He talks about his memoir: Giant Steps.

Everybody loves Whipped Cream and we'll hear the electronic artist who goes by that name. She has an EP, Someone You Can Count On. We'll hear that and music by Philip Selway.

If you want to spin your mind, John Diliberto has the music with Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin. The Swiss ensemble plays a hypnotic, minimalist style of jazz on their album, Spin.

We’ll hear the space duo of Craig Padilla and Marvin Allen from their album, Weathering The Storm. We'll also hear music by Mynolia from her impressive debut album, All Things Heavy.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, we'll hear a Japanese electronic artist who records as Yaffle. He's got a beautiful ambient chamber music release recorded with several Icelandic musicians.

50 years ago, guitarist Will Ackerman’s modest release In Search of the Turtle's Navel launched a movement. We hear founder Will Ackerman talk about the genesis of a revolution.

Frankie Rose started out as a punk artist, but she's evolved into electronic pop on her new album, Love As Protection. We'll also hear Gemma Ray and the Death Bell Gang.

Music by Lana Del Rey. The artful pop chanteuse gets intimate on her album, Did You Know There Was a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? We'll also hear from Olafur Arnalds.

It's the goth electronics of Depeche Mode who have an album called Memento Mori that tackles dark themes of the 21st century. We'll also hear from Heather Woods Broderick.

It's a trip to the red planet when we hear music by Thaneco from his album, Structures from Mars. It's an album of deep Berlin school sequencers. We’ll also hear something from Sine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hammock talk about the Christian experiences, LSD trips and disaffection with current politics that fuel their album, The Second Coming was a Moonrise.

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore come together for an album of harp, voice and synthesizer that draws inspiration from cathedrals and improvisations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.