It’s Ambiences in Black when we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources, jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.
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Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025 – Ambiences in Black
Tag: downtempo
Reviews & Commentary
All-Time New Age Grammy Winners Ranked
The Best New Age (Ambient, Chant) Album category of the Grammys has always been fraught with problems. We go through all 39 winners and rank them.
CD of the Month
Echoes Feb 2025 CD of the Month: Dieter Spears
Dieter Spears takes you back to 80s electronics, disco beats, and ambient moods on his latest album, Late Day Summer Breeze. It’s Echoes February CD of the Month.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 January: deepspace on Top
deepspace’s Neon Blue Utopia tops the Echoes January 2025 list, followed by Sasha, Stellarium, Bill Nelson, a collaboration between Immersion and SUSS, and 20 other great CDs.
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Thursday, February 13, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, the premiere of a single by Message to Bears, the musical alias of English multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander, who blends ambient, folk, post-rock, and electronic influences.
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Weekend, Feb 8-9, 2025 – Dieter Spears CD of the Month
On the next Echoes, our February CD of the Month, Late Day Summer Breeze by Nashville filmmaker, artist, and bassist Dieter Spears. Join John Diliberto as we get out of the cold.
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Thursday, Jan 30, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by ambient chamber music composer Peter Gregson from his eponymously titled album, and a different kind of ambient chamber music by Tepon and his single, Wildroot.
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Wednesday, Jan 29, 2025 – Echoes at the GRAMMYs
Roll out the red carpet for Echoes at the GRAMMYs. We’ll hear music by nominees across multiple categories and artists including Anoushka Shankar, Andre 3000, Peter Gabriel and Taylor Swift.
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Tuesday, Jan 28, 2025 – Japanese Breakfast and More
New music by Japanese Breakfast, the Philadelphia dream pop band fronted by Michelle Zauner. They have a new pastoral single off their album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).
Playlists
Weekend, Jan 11-12, 2025 – Programs 2501A & 2501B
Danish composer Trentemøller has been crafting electronic pop since the early 2000s. He has a new album called Dreamweaver that taps his influences from dream-pop to shoegaze.