Let the sunshine in as Echoes orchestrate a soundscape for the Summer Solstice. We’ll hear music from Erik Wollo, George Winston, Mimi Page, and Craig Padilla and Marvin Allen and more.
Playlists
Friday, June 19, 2026 – An Echoes Summer Solstice
Tag: Ambient
Coming Up
Friday, July 3, 2026 – Echoes Ambient Americana
On a July 4th weekend, we take you into twanguility with an Ambient Americana Soundscape. It’s country and western distilled though Brian Eno ambiences, but still with that country twang.
Playlists
Thursday, June 18, 2026 – Echoes Program 2624D
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by guitarist Tom Caufield. He’s a fingerstyle guitarist who always finds novel settings for his instrument. His album is The Whisper Resistance.
Coming Up
Thursday, July 2, 2026 – Music by Cigarettes After Sex
Join us for the sultry bedroom sound of Cigarettes After Sex. We have a single from them and some space music out of Australia by Jim Ottaway, who continues shooting for the stars.
Playlists
Wednesday, June 17, 2026 – Echoes Program 2624C
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from Brazilian electronic artist Anna off her album, Intentions. We’ll also hear a collaboration from oboist Jill Haley and electronic artist Deborah Martin.
Coming Up
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 – American Electronic Revolution
It’s the American Electronic Revolution, as Echoes brings you 25 electronic artists celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. Hear the music that has created an entirely new American sound.
Playlists
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 – Boards of Canada
They are considered icons in the ambient world but haven’t released an album in 13 years. Boards of Canda return with a new album of edgy electronic ambiences called Inferno.
Coming Up
Monday, June 29, 2026 – Unwed Sailor
Echoes CD of the Month rides a post-rock sound with Unwed Sailor. They embrace bass-led, instrumental music with post-rock dynamics that glide between delirious heaviness & breezy melodicism.
Reviews & Commentary
Tonto’s Expanding Head Band at 55
Malcolm Cecil was an electronic pioneer whose duo, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, planted the seeds of contemporary electornic music with the album Zero Time in 1971. He leaves at age 84.
Playlists
Monday, June 15, 2026 – TONTO’s Zero Time at 55
As Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff created the seminal electronic space album, Zero Time, in 1971. We celebrate this epic release on its 55th anniversary.