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 – Echoes Program 2511C
Tag: electronic
Coming Up
Tuesday, Apr 1, 2025 – MAPS: The Echoes Interview
We throw out our GPS and get out MAPS. That’s the recording persona of James Chapman. His last two albums have been pure joyous, electronic bliss. We talk counter melodies and more.
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Tuesday, Mar 18, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511B
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
Coming Up
Monday, Mar 31, 2025 – Einaudi’s Summer Portraits
If you can’t wait for summer, Echoes has a record for you: Ludovico Einaudi’s The Summer Portraits. The Italian composer and pianist sculpts delicate chamber music breezes.
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Monday, Mar 17, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511A
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.
Coming Up
Weekend, Mar 29-30, 2025 – Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf
It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf. They’ve created an album called Doppelganger that looks back at the golden age of Krautrock.
Playlists
Weekend, Mar 15-16, 2025 – Programs 2510A & 2510B
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.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: A Celtic Journey
An over-six-hour uninterrupted instrumental soundscape featuring music from Ireland, and inspired by the Celtic Isles, including Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Afro Celt Sound System, and many more.
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Friday, Mar 14, 2025 – Echoes Program 2510E
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
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
A Slow Flow Echoes drifts through Ann Licater’s solo flute album, Between the Stars, and then heads into perilous electronics with Thanaco and Dask’s album, Ships in the Sky.