The 2026 Grammy Awards were announced and the New, Age, Ambient and Chant category continues to confound. John Diliberto digs into this year’s nominees.
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New Age etc Grammy Awards 2026
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Playlists
Tuesday, Nov 11, 2025 – Echoes Program 2545B
Music by Wouter Kellerman, Eru Matsumoto and Chandrika Tandon. This trio of flutes, cello and voice create a world fusion meditation called Triveni. We travel its paths.
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Tuesday, Nov.25: Big Ears Festival Interview
Big Ears Festival 2026 will descend on Knoxville at the end of March with wave upon wave of new music sounds that challenge perceptions and open ears, Big. Ashley Capps talks about it all.
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Weekend Nov 22-23, 2025: Deepspace Interview
Deepspace is Australian electronic artist Mirko Ruckels. His recent albums, Neon Blue Utopia and Water Planets, are immersive ambient albums wrapped in science fiction stories.
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Friday, Nov 21, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from EDM artist Sasha. He scored the music for the immersive exhibition, Da Vinci Genius.
Playlists
Friday, Nov 7, 2025 – Echoes Program 2544E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Diane Arkenstone. Her release, Aquaria II: Ascension taps 90s electronic rhythms, siren wordless vocals, and electronic moods. Ascend with a Slow Flow Echoes.
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Thursday, Nov 6, 2025 – Echoes Program 2544D
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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Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 – Music from Orchestra Indigo
It’s an orchestra of the imagination with music by Orchestra Indigo. This is a project of rock artist Rick Randlett. He goes into a cocktail lounge in space for his album, The Small Hours.
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Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025 – Vangelis Heaven & Hell
Travel through Heaven & Hell, the 1975 album by Vangelis on it’s 50th anniversary. He created an orchestra of sound with synthesizers and percussion. Hear it all on Echoes.
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Tuesday, Nov 4, 2025 – Echoes Program 2544B
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.