In the Shambhu Sessions Podcast, John Diliberto talks about the origins of Echoes, the golden era of New Age music, his favorite artists and art vs functional music.
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Thursday, October 23, 2025 – Echoes Program 2542D
New music by Quiet Resonance. That’s the pseudonym of Mississippi pastor, Tony Pounder. He takes ambient guitar in new directions on his latest album, Asleep at the Wheel.
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Thursday, Nov 6, 2025 – Psychedelic Music
On the next Echoes, we get psychedelicized. We’ll explore psychedelic music from the 1960s right up through the electronic hallucinations of the 2000s. It’s peace, love, and blown minds.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 – Echoes Program 2542C
Anoushka Shankar has released an impressive trilogy of EPs in the last year that take her sitar in different directions including deep ambient music. We talk to this master musician.
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Wednesday, Nov 5, 2025 – Ommadawn’s 50th
Tubular Bells’ composer Mike Oldfield talks about Ommadawn, his two-sided epic from 1975. It’s partly an homage to his mother, who died during the recording, and her Irish roots.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025 – Echoes Program 2542B
Eric Hilton is one half of the group, Thievery Corporation, but he’s been amassing a prolific solo catalog. He has one called Midnight Ragas that features Natalia Clavier.
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Tuesday, Nov 4, 2025 – New Music from Hammock
The ambient guitar duo, Hammock, return with a new album of inner contemplations and moody guitar excursions called Nevertheless. It’s a music that sits somewhere between here and there.
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Monday, Oct 20, 2025 – Echoes Program 2542A
We talk with Bluetech about using the story of Laika, the first dog Cosmonaut. On his album, Spacehop Chronicles 2, he creates an electronic tone poem of hope, fantasy and grief.
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Weekend, Oct 18-19, 2025 – Echoes Program 2541A
On a Slow Flow Echoes some deep ambient improvisations by electronic artist Robert Rich and Italian ambient guitarist Luca Formentini. They head far into the sky on Cloud Ornament.