Music by The Silk Road Ensemble with Rhianon 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.
Coming Up
Friday, Apr 4, 2025 – New Music from Silkroad Ensemble
Tag: Ambient
Playlists
Friday, Mar 21, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511E
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.
Coming Up
Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
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.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Ben Neill’s Music Democracy
Playlists
Thursday, Mar 20, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511D
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.
Living Room Concerts
Ben Neill, Performing Live On Echoes
We take you back to a 2016 live Echoes performance by Ben Neill. He plays the mutantrumpet with 3 bells, 2 sets of valves, a mini trombone slide and a lot of electronic controllers.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 – New Music from Carl Weingarten
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.
Playlists
Wednesday, Mar 19, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511C
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.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Apr 1, 2025 – MAPS: The Echoes Interview
We throw out our GPS and get out MAPS. That’s the recording persona of James Chapman. His last two albums have been pure joyous, electronic bliss. We talk counter melodies and more.
Playlists
Tuesday, Mar 18, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511B
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