The return of Ancient Future. The band that coined the term World Fusion in 1978 has their first significant release in nearly 25 years. I talk to founder and guitarist Matthew Montfort.
Coming Up
Weekend, May 17-18, 2025 – Ancient Future Interview
Tag: Ambient
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 April: Ludovico Einaudi at the Top
The Summer Portraits by Ludovico Einaudi tops the Echoes April 2025 list, followed by a collaboration between Immersion and SUSS, Carl Weingarten, and 22 other great CDs.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 March: Immersion & SUSS at the Top
Nanocluster Volume 3 by Immersion and SUSS tops the Echoes March 2025 list, followed by a collaboration between Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf, Colin Rayment, and 22 other great CDs.
Playlists
Friday, May 2, 2025 – Echoes Program 2517E
We hear new music by Hollie Kenniff. She’s the singer in the dreampop duo Mint Julep with her husband, Keith Kenniff. On her solo album For Forever, she goes purely ambient.
Coming Up
Friday, May 16, 2025 – Music from Andy Bell
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.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Larry Fast’s Synergy Turns 50
Playlists
Thursday, May 1, 2025 – Echoes Program 2517D
On a Slow Flow Echoes, more music from Larry Fast and his album, Synergy – Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra. We’ll hear tracks from this epic debut on its 50th anniversary.
Coming Up
Thursday, May 15, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
We hear the communion of Ian Boddy and Erik Wollo in a live performance of synthesizers and guitar. The album is called Transmissions and it finds the two in a more energized sound.
Playlists
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025 – Echoes Program 2517C
Music by 9 Theory and Torii Wolf from their collaboration, Soft Realms. 9 Theory is producer Gabe Lehner and Torii Wolf is a singer and producer who comes out of the Massive Attack mold.
Coming Up
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 – Vegyn Reworks Air
Air’s Moon Safari album gets an epic and ambient rework by Vegyn. It’s called Blue Moon Safari. Vegyn maintains the downtempo mood of the original but takes it into new atmospheres.