Get ready for the Best of Echoes 2026 So Far. As we cross the midpoint of the year, we hear the music that rose above the noise: 30 albums of sounds that open up new worlds.
Playlists
Monday, July 6, 2026 – Echoes Program 2627A
Tag: Chillout
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Monday, July 20, 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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Weekend, July 18-19, 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.”
Playlists
Weekend, July 4-5, 2026 – Programs 2626A & 2626B
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.
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Friday, July 17, 2026 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Quiet Resonance, a guitarist from Mississippi who creates ambient landscapes. His album is Snowblind. We’ll also hear from George FitzGerald.
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Friday, July 3, 2026 – Echoes Program 2626E
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.
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Thursday, July 16, 2026 – Eric Hilton & Natalia Clavier
Echoes brings you downtempo bossa nova when we hear music from Eric Hilton and Natalia Clavier of Thievery Corporation. Their album Corazon Kintsugi taps their sultry Latin side.
Playlists
Thursday, July 2, 2026 – Echoes Program 2626D
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.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026 – Music from Slowdive
Music by Slowdive, the shoegaze band who came to renown in the 1990s. They released their second album in the 21st century, Everything Is Alive in 2023. We’ll also hear a track from VEiiLA.
Playlists
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 – Echoes Program 2626C
Music by London Grammar who team up with electronic producer, Sebastian. We’ll also hear Caroline Lavelle who is the cellist with Loreena McKennitt and the singer with Secret Sky.