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Wednesday, Sept 16, 2026 – Program 2637C

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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Thursday, Sept 17, 2026 – Echoes Program 2637D

On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Belgian ambient composer Dirk Serries. He’s recorded as Vidna Obmana, but under his own name he teams up with saxophonist Trosta on an album of ambient improvisations called Island On The Moon. John Diliberto washes ashore on a Slow Flow Echoes.

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Friday, Sept 18, 2026- Echoes Program 2637E

We have music by Tom Caufield, except he isn’t recording under his own name, but as Gatefold Sleeve. His album Vessels of the Essence is an ambient improvisational journey. John Diliberto has it for you on Echoes from PRX.

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Monday, Sept 21, 2026 – Echoes Program 2638A

The ambient guitar duo Hammock have become darlings of both the post-rock and ambient scenes. Yet, although they may attract a hipster audience, their music is imbued with Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson’s evangelical upbringing and their subsequent rejection of much of that doctrine. It informs much of their new album, The Second Coming was a Moonrise.

Hammock’s Marc Byrd: In one Christian school that I grew up in, Wednesdays, we wore a pin-on tie with an eagle, an American flag, and a Bible printed on it. So I got a good dose of Christian nationalism too. I got suspended from that school several times.

That’s Marc Byrd of Hammock. I talk to them today about an album inspired by an acid trip, religion, politics and a love of sonic landscapes on Echoes.

The Second Coming was a Moonrise was the Echoes June CD of the Month. Read John Diliberto’s review.

Tuesday, Sept 22, 2026 – Echoes Program 2638B

Bill Bruford is one of the greatest drummers of our age, and certainly the greatest in Progressive Rock, playing with Yes, King Crimson, UK and Earthworks. He retired 13 years ago and got a Doctorate in music. He claims to not even touched the drums in that time. But live performance pulled him back in the form of a younger musician, guitarist Pete Roth. They meet in a new space.

Pete Roth: I have to admit up until I met Bill, I didn’t know what Bill was doing and then I learned very quickly that I was being treated to a very prestigious teacher.

Bill Bruford: We have different touchstones, different reference points. It’s not much good, me talking to Pete about King Crimson. or Yes or anything like that. He doesn’t know what that music is. So I like that.

He’s a giant of progressive rock, but he’s only a sideman (wink-wink) with Pete Roth. We’ll be talking to them about their cross-generational approach to music on their album, Group Chat, and why Bruford came out of retirement after 13 years.

Hear our 2018 Interview with Bill Bruford