Mark Dwane is a guitar-synthesist who created music of orchestral grandeur from another planet. He’s now gone at the age of 70, leaving a trove of cinematic music.
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Obituary: Mark Dwane 1954-2025
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Playlists
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 – Echoes Program 2529C
The ambient guitar duo, Hammock, return with a new album of inner contemplations and moody guitar excursions called Nevertheless. It’s a music that sits somewhere between here and there.
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Tuesday, Aug 5, 2025 – Music from Bill Nelson
Music from Bill Nelson in what seems to be an endless stream of new music. This one is called Studio Cadet and echoes the early 60s guitar band sound of The Ventures and The Shadows.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 June: Marconi Union Lands at the Top
Marconi Union sticks the landing with their album, The Fear of Never Landing, Echoes June CD of the Month. AvaWaves just misses and AESEAS eyes the top in Echoes Top 25 Releases for June 2025.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025 – New Music from Hammock
The ambient guitar duo, Hammock, return with a new album of inner contemplations and moody guitar excursions called Nevertheless. It’s a music that sits somewhere between here and there.
Coming Up
Thursday, July 10, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by German multi-instrumentalist, Marcator. Earlier this year he released the album, PanAroma. Now he has an album of remixes called PanAroma Reincarnations.
Best Of
Best of Albums of 2025 So Far – The Echoes Top 35
Nanocluster Volume 3 by Immersion and SUSS tops the Best Albums of 2025 So Far- The Echoes Top 35 , followed by Marconi Union, Carl Weingarten, Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo, and 31 other great CDs.
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Friday, July 4, 2025 – Echoes Ambient Americana
On a July 4th we take you into twanguility with an Ambient Americana Soundscape. It’s country and western distilled though Brian Eno ambiences, but still with that country twang.
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Thursday, July 3, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Misticeti. He comes to us from Colombia via Denmark where he currently composes some very dynamic electronic music. We’ll also hear from Jeremiah Fraites.
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Weekend, June 28-29, 2025 – Best of Echoes & Terry Riley’s 90th
It’s the Best of Echoes 2025 So Far. As we hit the year’s midway mark, we’re selecting the 35 best releases to rise above this year so far. I can’t tell you who is on it, tune in to hear it!