The Return of World Fusion. It seemed to fade away after the 1990s, but recently there’s been an influx of music charged by sounds from across the globe & spun with 21st century technology.
Playlists
Wednesday, Feb 5, 2025 – Echoes Program 2505C
Tag: electronic
Playlists
Tuesday, Feb 4, 2025 – Echoes Program 2505B
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.
Coming Up
Monday, Feb 17, 2025 – Immersion & Suss Interview
We talk to Immersion and SUSS. These are two artists who you hear a lot on Echoes that have recently converged for a brilliant new album that is a true meeting of differing musical cultures.
Playlists
Monday, Feb 3, 2025 – Echoes Program 2505A
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.
CD of the Month
Echoes Feb 2025 CD of the Month: Dieter Spears
By John Diliberto 2/1/2025 Over the past two years I have found a strain of electronics that is ebullient, joyful and uplifting. It’s a contrast to the moody, melancholy, space abstractions that I usually enjoy in electronic music. I’ve heard this sound in Counter Melody by Maps, the Saul Stokes alias Taiyo Rey on the…
Playlists
Weekend, Feb 1-2, 2025 – Programs 2504A & 2504B
Explore the Big Ears Festival 2025 with founder Ashley Capps plus music from Echoes artists appearing at the festival including Steve Roach, Michael Rother, and SUSS.
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.
Coming Up
Friday, Feb 14, 2025 – Echoes of the Heart
Get close to the one you love for Echoes of the Heart, a Valentine’s Soundscape. John Diliberto brings you songs of love and sounds of sensuality for Valentine’s Day on Echoes.
Playlists
Friday, Jan 31, 2025 – Echoes Program 2504E
We go east on the next Echoes for the second in a trilogy of albums by sitarist Anoushka Shankar. We’ll hear track from her EP, Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before the Dawn.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Big Ears Festival 2025
