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Monday, Oct 19, 2026 – Echoes Program 2642A

On the next Echoes, David Helpling and Scott Reich go Through the Thought Horizon. They are musicians exploring a philosophical ambience.  You know David Helpling from his many solo works, collaborations with Jon Jenkins and Dark Sky Alliance. Scott Reich is less well-known. He’s a pianist and electronic composer, but he also takes his music to the mystical side on their collaboration, Through the Thought Horizon.

Scott Reich: The word “through,” meaning if you get to tied to your thoughts, you can have a limited experience in life. But if you can go through the thought horizon, then you’re opening up all kinds of new experiences. You can exist beyond thought.

Get ready for a ride into philosophy, the Kabbalah and the Primordial Tower. Join John Diliberto with David Helping and Scott Reich on Echoes from PRX.

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Tuesday, Oct 20, 2026 – Echoes Program 2642B

On the next Echoes, 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 and atmospheric sound. We’ll hear that and more on Echoes with John Diliberto from PRX.

Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026 – Echoes Program 2642C

On the next Echoes, electronic sounds from Germany and Argentina. We’ll hear from Lars Leonhard, who does soundtracks for NASA. And we’ll head into space with Pabellon Sintetico from his album, Ephemeral Architecture.  It’s ahead on Echoes from PRX.

Thursday, Oct 22, 2026 – Echoes Program 2642D

John Diliberto, Michael Stearns and Robert Rich

Today, two electronic musicians who were part of the original 1980s California new age and space music scenes. Michael Stearns and Robert Rich are icons of electronic music and have recorded their first album ever together, Reunion of Breath and Waves. And they did it in person face to face, synth to synth.

Robert Rich: I’ve been using a term for twenty-five plus years now that I refer to as embodiment, which, having lived my life in Silicon Valley until recently, getting extremely tired of the push towards virtualization going on in technology and feeling that to push back, one needs to find a language of physicality, of non-virtual non-virtuality. I think many of the problems that we’re entering into in our civilization has to do with  a denunciation of physicality, a denunciation of our animal nature.

We hear some deep musical explorations when John Diliberto talks with Michael Stearns and Robert Rich. Michaels Stearns recordings like Planetary Unfolding, Chronos and Baraka are albums that influenced a generation. Robert Rich has a charted a singular course through electronic music traverses abstract realms, world fusion and electronic dreams from his breakthrough release, Rainforest through his seven-hour album inspired by his sleep concerts, Somnium to his recent CD of the Month, Travelers’ Cloth. Even though they travel in the same music circles and have known each other for 40 years, they’ve never recorded together until now and the results are a spectacular album, Reunion of Breath and Waves.

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Friday, October 23, 2026 – Echoes Program 2642E

On a Slow Flow Echoes, we go ambient country. One selection is from guitarist Carl Weingarten’s  album Stop Me Try. The other is from The Royal Arctic Institute, who twang in ambience on From Catnap To Coma. Stay awake on a Slow Flow Echoes.

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