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.
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Wednesday, Mar 19, 2025 – New Music from Andy Bell
Tag: Chillout
Coming Up
Tuesday, Mar 18, 2025 – Ben Neill
Ben Neill has been at the bleeding edge of new music for decades with his Mutantrumpet. Now he has a book, Diffusing Music – Trajectories of Sonic Democratization
Playlists
Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025 – Echoes Program 2509B
We talk to a pioneer of electronic music, David Borden, the founding member of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. Their debut album from 1973 remains a classic today.
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Monday, Mar 17, 2025 – Celtic Echoes
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.
Playlists
Monday, Mar 3, 2025 – Echoes Program 2509A
The March CD of the Month is a meeting of Krautrock & Ambient Country when Immersion get together with SUSS on the album, Nanocluster Volume 3. It sends western twang into ambient spaces.
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Weekend, Mar 15-16, 2025 – Remembering David Parsons
New Zealand Electronic artist David Parsons left the planet in February. We remember him with a suite of his music that combined electronics with sitar and other world music elements.
Playlists
Weekend, Mar 1-2, 2025 – Programs 2508A & 2508B
Two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim Kimo West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for Hawaiian slack key music.
CD of the Month
Echoes March CD of the Month: Immersion & SUSS
The electronic duo Immersion with Colin Newman and Malka Spigel combine with Ambient Country band SUSS for a meeting of ambient, Country & Krautrock on Nanocluster Vol.3
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 February: Dieter Spears Breezes into Top Spot
Late Day Summer Breeze by Dieter Spears tops the Echoes February 2025 list, followed by a collaboration between Immersion and SUSS, Ludovico Einaudi, Mogwai, C37, and 20 other great CDs.
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Friday, Mar 14, 2025 – New Music by Mogwai
Mogwai has a new album called The Bad Fire. The Scotland-based post-rock band has coincidentally re-emerged at the same time as their American counterparts, Explosions in the Sky.