Six hours of continuous instrumental music that traces the ups and downs of nocturnal rhythms.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Sleeping and Rising
Tag: Ambient
Interview Podcast
Dave Preston in the Echoes Podcast
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Dave Preston talks about his influences, current projects, and how his humble beginnings, recording with just a Shure SM-58, led to working with Justin Timberlake and his own ambient guitar albums.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for July 2016
OnDeadWaves self-titeled CD of the Month debut Leads the Echoes Top 25 for July and ex-Tangerine Dreamer Peter Baumann’s first album in 33 years makes the Top 10
Playlists
Thursday, August 4th, 2016-Echoes Program 1631D
Mutual Benefit is a music project of singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. He’s been acclaimed in places like Stereogum and Pitchfork.
Reviews & Commentary
Kraftwerk “Autobahn” Video
Kraftwerk’s 1974 classic, “Autobahn” is set to an accelerated car trip across the English countryside.
Playlists
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016-Echoes Program 1631C
On the next Echoes, a new generation of space musicians when we talk to Ascendant. They’re an electronic duo out of California who have been releasing albums of melodic electronics.
Playlists
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016-Echoes Program 1631B
Al Jewer plays flutes. Andy Mitran plays keyboards and percussion. When they aren’t crafting commercial jingles in Chicago, they create music that ranges from world fusion to pure ambient. Winners of a ZMR Award in 2016, they talk about their music on Echoes.
Reviews & Commentary
Suzanne Ciani’s Buchla Excursions
Suzanne Ciani is known for her romantic keyboard compositions, but she started out as an avant-garde electronic composer. You can hear that side on a new album, Buchla Concerts 1975. John Diliberto looks back at this seminal work and time.
CD of the Month
Echoes August 2016 CD of the Month: William Tyler’s Modern Country
Echoes CD of the Month for August, William Tyler’s “Modern Country” elevates country and folk traditions to cosmic, ambient planes
Playlists
Weekend, July 30 & 31, 2016-Echoes Program 1630A
Peter Baumann was a member of Tangerine Dream during their classic era and founded Private Music. Now, after 20 years in his think tank, the Baumann Foundation, he returns with his first new album in 33 years, Machines of Desire. He talks about electronics and philosophy on Echoes.