An icon of German electronic music returns. Guitarist Michael Rother from Cluster, Harmonia, and Neu! has an album with Vittoria Maccabruni called As Long As the Light. We’ll also hear from harpist David Michael, formerly of the duo David Michael and Randy Mead.
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On a Slow Flow Echoes, 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. He has an album called Creating Space. John Diliberto has all kinds of space on Echoes from PRX.
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Friday, September 11, 2026 – Echoes Program 2636E |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | David Arkenstone | Night Journey | Native Dreams |
| 0:06:00 | Opium Moon | Of Kiss and Wing (with Wouter Kellerman) | Where We are Gathered |
| 0:10:26 | Orchestra Indigo | Lacrimosa | Requiem |
| 0:15:25 | Christoph Sebastian Pabst | Sweven | Sweven (EP) |
| 0:17:46 | Air Sculpture | On Writing | BERLIN – A Tribute Album for Mark Shreeve (v/a) |
| 0:23:39 | Pamela Whitman & Rich Kurtz | Ebb and Flow | Spirit of the Sea |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Pierre Bensusan | Hymn 11 | Altiplanos |
| 0:34:26 | Jade Warrior | Memories of a Distant Sea | Floating World |
| 0:38:01 | David Michael & Michael Mandrell | The Emerald Path | Cascadia |
| 0:42:12 | Numatik | Chi Mountain | Creating Space |
| 0:45:35 | Erik Wøllo | Windsong | Cloud of Strings |
| 0:51:11 | Russel Walder | Emanation | Speak to the Storm |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | (ghost) | Bloom | Effloresce |
| 1:06:00 | Kooma | Subliminal | Subliminal (single) |
| 1:07:56 | David Can | Dream Ahead | Kirkjufell (EP) |
| 1:16:22 | Philip Aaberg | Montana Half-Light | Live from Montana |
| 1:21:20 | Fire Seeds | Shoreline | Shoreline (Single) |
| 1:23:44 | Brian Keane & Omar Faruk Tekbilek | Sweet Trouble | Beyond the Sky |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Helios | All the While | Espera |
| 1:34:44 | One Arc Degree | Galactic Fall | The Forest and the Milky Way |
| 1:41:23 | Aphex Twin | Rhubarb | Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 |
| 1:48:46 | Sumner McKane | Lost His Devil’s Tail in the Snow | Night Blooming Cereus |
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Our CD of the Month in September was Two by Twilight from Peter Phippen and Eric “The” the Taylor. Today, I’ve got both musicians talking about what went into making an album that brought two veteran musicians together for the first time. Phippen is a highly regarded world flutist who started out in the Native flute scene. Taylor has been working in the ambient world. They merged in a meeting of architecture and improvisation.
Peter Phippen: “Yeah, I don’t like to think when I’m playing. It’s the old Taoist philosophy. No thinking, no mind, no mind, no problem. So I don’t like to repeat myself.”
Peter Phippen and Eric “the” Taylor want to take you into a contemplative state on Two by Twilight. But this isn’t the kind of music found on countless cookie-cutter “Music for Meditation” albums. That’s not their intent at all. Two by Twilight takes you into a land of imagination. They travel in a landscape of organic moss and digital vines, creating a world transformed and surreal. John Diliberto talks to them on Echoes from PRX.
Read John Diliberto’s review of Two by Twilight
Read John Diliberto’s review of David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor’s The Precious Dark
Hear our interview with Eric “the” Taylor and David Helpling in the Echoes Podcast
Hear our interview with Eric “the” Taylor and Dark Sky Alliance in the Echoes Podcast
| Start Time | Running Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
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| Monday, September 14, 2026 – Program 2637A | ||||
| First Half Hour | ||||
| 0:01:00 | 5:00 | Dark Sky Alliance | The Desert Mind | Interdwell |
| 0:06:00 | 2:57 | Thunder Bae | Crystal Ball | A Woman |
| 0:09:16 | 4:49 | Julia Holter | Materia 2 | Materia |
| 0:13:52 | 3:50 | Mark Isham | Number Theory | At the Carousel Club |
| 0:17:36 | 3:16 | Elephant Stone | A Beautiful Fate | ASHA |
| 0:20:33 | 8:17 | Syndromeda | Movement #5 | The World In Motion |
| 0:29:30 | 0:30 | Shambhu | Resilience (excerpt) | Lotus Dream |
| Second Half Hour | ||||
| 0:30:00 | 14:27 | Interview: Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | ||
| 0:45:00 | 5:29 | Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | Time Table | Two by Twilight |
| 0:50:16 | 6:57 | Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | Zuwara – Place of the Elders | Two by Twilight |
| 0:59:00 | 1:00 | Felsman & Tiley | Seeker (excerpt) | Protomensch |
| Third Half Hour | ||||
| 1:01:00 | 4:49 | Jack Wyllie | Juniper | Eternal Spring |
| 1:06:00 | 3:44 | Jon Batiste | Always Know | Monk Meditations |
| 1:09:30 | 5:55 | Gaspar Claus | El Paradís Són Els Altres | Cells |
| 1:14:43 | 5:10 | Marconi Union and Jah Wobble | Reality Crash | Anomic |
| 1:19:34 | 6:26 | KARYYN | PULL | Physics Universal Love Language (PULL) |
| 1:25:53 | 2:49 | Michael Stearns | A Moment Before | Floating Whispers |
| 1:29:30 | :30 | Michael Hewett | Gold (Live on Echoes) (excerpt) | Victoria Place: Echoes Live 23 (v/a) |
| Fourth Half Hour | ||||
| 1:30:00 | 6:37 | Sigur Rós | Dauðalogn | Valtari |
| 1:35:28 | 5:22 | Joshua Hill | Blue Left Hand | Cowboy Dream (Acceptance Is An Arrow) |
| 1:40:49 | 0:45 | Break | ||
| 1:41:49 | 5:27 | Will Ackerman | The Five Sisters | Home |
| 1:47:04 | 4:12 | Goldfrapp | Stranger | Tales Of Us |
| 1:50:50 | 4:58 | Quiet Resonance | Headlong Into the Surf | Flying Against the Wind |
On the next Echoes, Thelonius Monk goes serene with Jon Batiste. We’ll also hear guitarist Will Ackerman and his meditative album, Home. John Diliberto is right at home on Echoes from PRX.
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
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| Tuesday, Sept 15, 2026 – Program 2637B | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Carl Weingarten | Western Overnight | Life Under Stars |
| 0:06:00 | Sheila Chandra | Ever So Lonely / Eyes / Ocean | Echo |
| 0:10:34 | Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | Feeling the Question Why | Two by Twilight |
| 0:14:18 | Julia Holter | My Twin | Materia |
| 0:17:39 | Liquid Bloom/Share the Light/Awamani | Crystal Cave | Crystal Cave (Single) |
| 0:23:40 | Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery | Sandsend | The Roaring Waves |
| 0:29:30 | Michael Hewett | Gold (Live on Echoes) (excerpt) | Victoria Place – Echoes Live 23 |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Leo Abrahams | The Grape And The Grain | The Grape And The Grain |
| 0:33:00 | Carolyn Currie | Echolocation | Echolocation |
| 0:37:20 | Will Ackerman | Snow’s Stone | Home |
| 0:43:40 | Break | ||
| 0:44:34 | Mark Peters | Amulet | Amulet (Single) |
| 0:49:45 | Alex Amor | Seeing Angels | Heavenly Bodies |
| 0:53:00 | Steven Halpern | Sakura | Spectrum Suite |
| 0:59:00 | Immersion | Change of Use (excerpt) | WTF??? |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Carmen Rizzo | Until You Find Another | Looking Through Leaves |
| 1:06:00 | Moya Brennan | Harpsong | Two Horizons |
| 1:09:38 | Antaeus/Madame Gandhi/Cafe De Anatolia/amani sol | Home | Ekta |
| 1:13:22 | Jon Batiste | Reflections | Monk Meditations |
| 1:17:37 | Ólafur Arnalds | Words Of Amber | For Now I Am Winter |
| 1:20:46 | Shearwater | Even Song | The New World |
| 1:24:17 | Suzanne Perry | Ladonna Dissima (2026) | There’ll Be No More Promises (ep) |
| 1:29:30 | Blow Up Hollywood | Adrift (excerpt) | Blow Up Hollywood |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Steve Hillage | Garden Of Paradise [2006 Digital Remaster] | Rainbow Dome Musick |
| 1:50:57 | Amethystium | Innocence | Evermind |
| 1:55:30 | John Carpenter | The Mapmaker | Cathedral |
On the next Echoes, another disciple of Windham Hill guitarist and founder, Will Ackerman. His name is Randal Meek and he got Ackerman to produce his album, Longings. We’ll hear that and world fusion from Karavan Sarai off the album, The Moon’s Within Reach. John Diliberto is over the moon on Echoes from PRX
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Wednesday, Sept 16, 2026 – Program 2637C |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:01 | General Fuzz | First Steps | Miles Tones |
| 0:06:01 | Kan Wakan | Shining Bright Truth | Phantasmagoria Vol. 2 |
| 0:11:32 | Marconi Union | Blowback | Signals |
| 0:17:09 | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss | The Price Of Love | Raise The Roof |
| 0:21:36 | Karavan Sarai | Become My Moon (part 1) | The Moon’s Within Reach |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:01 | William Orbit | Starbeam | Starbeam |
| 0:36:00 | Agnes Obel | Fuel to Fire | Aventine |
| 0:41:06 | Afro Celt Sound System | Cyberia | Seed |
| 0:48:45 | break | ||
| 0:49:42 | Tori Amos | Speaking With Trees | Ocean to Ocean |
| 0:53:32 | Al Di Meola | Scenario | Scenario |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:01 | Azure Ray | Sleep | Azure Ray (20th Anniversary Edition) |
| 1:06:01 | Randal Meek | Boulder Sunrise | Longings |
| 1:08:58 | Goldfrapp | Road to Somewhere | Seventh Tree |
| 1:12:44 | The Great Northern | Star Gazer | Nocturnes |
| 1:18:34 | Coco | Knots | Coco |
| 1:21:36 | Bob Boilen | Weekend Drizzle | 2 Weeks 1 Summer |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:01 | Gileah Taylor | Going Home (Dream Mix) | Going Home EP |
| 1:35:12 | Taylor Barefoot | You Think You Know Someone | Distressed Signals |
| 1:39:05 | Bob Moses | Time and Again | Time and Again (Single) |
| 1:44:42 | break | ||
| 1:45:17 | Gemini Tri | Taumn (Bluetech Remix) | Lemniskata |
| 1:50:34 | Erik Wollo | Sojourn 2 | Sojourns |
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