We’ll hear Hermanos Gutierrez, the Ecuadorian-Swiss brothers who make dreamy instrumentals that are like songs from the high desert. We’ll also hear Portuguese guitarist, Francis Mann.
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Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026 – Echoes Program 2641B
Tag: Ambient
Coming Up
Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026 – New Music from Niyaz
Enter the Seven Realms of Attar, the latest album from the Persian fusion group Niyaz, led by Azam Ali and Loga Ramin Torkian.
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Monday, Oct 12, 2026 – Echoes Program 2641A
In the beginning, there was Will Ackerman. The guitarist and founder of Windham Hill Records launched a movement in 1976. Ackerman is still making music and he has a new album called Home.
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Weekend, Oct 10-11, 2026 – Programs 2640A & 2640B
Singer Agnes Obel returns with her first album in 6 years, The Meaning of Flowers. It’s a haunting meditation on motherhood and fame. It’s also the Echoes CD of the Month for October.
Coming Up
Weekend, Oct 24-25, 2026 – Helpling & Reich Interview
David Helpling and Scott Reich go Through The Thought Horizon. “If you can go through the thought horizon, then you’re opening up all kinds of new experiences. You can exist beyond thought.”
Coming Up
Friday Oct 23, 2026 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we go ambient country with Carl Weingarten’s album Stop Me Try, and The Royal Arctic Institute’s From Catnap To Coma.
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Friday, Oct 9, 2026 – Echoes Program 2640E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Will Ackerman. We’ll listen back to a collection drawn from his romance with Italy called Positano Songs. We’ll hear that and some downtempo electronic by Fade.
Coming Up
Thursday Oct 22, 2026 – Michael Stearns & Robert Rich
It’s a meeting of ambient music pioneers. Michael Stearns and Robert Rich talk about Reunion of Breath and Waves, the first collaboration of these two ground breaking artists.
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Thursday, Oct 8, 2026 – Echoes Program 2640D
Iconic German electronic band Kraftwerk haven’t released new music in decades, so they’ve turned their work over to remixers for a double CD set just called Remixes.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026 – Music from Lars Leonhard
On the next Echoes, electronic sounds from Germany and Argentina. We’ll hear from Lars Leonhard’s A Place Between Worlds, and Pabellon Sintetico’s Ephemeral Architecture.