John Diliberto takes you on the music high of Big Ears 2025, exploring music by the artists he experienced at the festival across its four days and over 100 acts.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 – Big Ears Festival 2025
Tag: Ambient
Playlists
Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025 – Echoes Program 2512C
Outkast’s Andre 3000 goes ambient and new age. We’ll hear music from the rapper’s solo debut album, New Blue Sun which is all instrumental and features no real beats and lots of flute.
Playlists
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2025 – Echoes Program 2512B
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we enter the temple of Steve Roach’s Sanctuary of Desire. We’ll go into one of the long, evolving tracks from this master of sequencer driven music.
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Tuesday, Apr 8, 2025 – Peter Gregson Interview
Peter Gregson is a classically-trained cellist, who went into ambient chamber music on 2021’s Patina, adding synthesizers and processing to his strings. He has a new, eponymous recording.
Playlists
Monday, Mar 24, 2025 – Echoes Program 2512A
It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf. They’ve created an album called Doppelganger that looks back at the golden age of Krautrock.
Coming Up
Monday, Apr 7, 2025 – Ravi Shankar Remembered
It’s a journey with an Icon when we celebrate the 105th Birthday of Indian sitar master, Ravi Shankar. His music spanned from classical Indian ragas to films to world fusion.
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Weekend, Apr 5-6, 2025 – Einaudi’s Summer Portraits
If you can’t wait for summer, Echoes has a record for you: Ludovico Einaudi’s The Summer Portraits. The Italian composer and pianist sculpts delicate chamber music breezes.
Playlists
Weekend, Mar 22-23, 2025 – Programs 2511A & 2511B
It’s the sounds of Ireland on a Celtic Soundscape for St. Patrick’s Day. We head into the serene and mystic side of Ireland with music from Clannad, Enya, Afro Celt Sound System and more.
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Friday, Apr 4, 2025 – New Music from Silkroad Ensemble
Music by The Silk Road Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens. They’ve taken a more Americana turn since Giddens took the reins from founder Yo-Yo Ma, but they still have that global aesthetic.
Playlists
Friday, Mar 21, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511E
We enter a dream state with Kelly Lee Owens. She’s an electronic musician and singer who hovers between dreampop and EDM. John Diliberto drops a couple of tracks off her album Dreamstate.