It’s the sounds of Ireland on a Celtic Soundscape for St. Patrick’s Day hear mutantrumpet player Ben Neill talk about his fascinating book, Diffusing Music on Echoes
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Weekend, Mar 22-23, 2025 – Celtic Echoes & Ben Neill
Tag: electronic
Playlists
Weekend, Mar 8-9, 2025 – Programs 2509A & 2509B
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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Friday, Mar 7, 2025 – Echoes Program 2509E
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).
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Friday, Mar 21, 2025 – Music by Kelly Lee Owens
We enter a dream state with Kelly Lee Owens. She’s an electronic musician and singer who hovers between dreampop and EDM. John Diliberto drops a couple of tracks off her album Dreamstate.
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Thursday, Mar 6, 2025 – Echoes Program 2509D
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Michelle Qureshi. Sometimes she plays solo acoustic guitar. Sometimes she fires up the synthesizers. On her album, Be In This World, she does it all.
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Thursday, Mar 20, 2025 – Echoes Vernal Equinox
Echoes declares winter over with an Echoes Vernal Equinox Soundscape. We’ll hear music for the turning of the seasons and the turning of celestial events to drive winter away.
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Wednesday, Mar 5, 2025 – Echoes Program 2509C
We hear new music by Hollie Kenniff. She’s the singer in the dreampop duo Mint Julep with her husband, Keith Kenniff. On her solo album For Forever, she goes purely ambient.
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Wednesday, Mar 19, 2025 – New Music from Andy Bell
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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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
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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.