Big Ears Festival 2025 is upon us and decisions must be made. Echoes host John Diliberto plots his path through the most Echoes-centric Big Ears ever with Steve Roach centering it all.
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Big Ears Festival 2025 – A Musical Journey
Tag: New Age
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Monday, Mar 24, 2025 – Echoes Program 2512A
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.
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Friday, Mar 21, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511E
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 20, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511D
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 19, 2025 – Echoes Program 2511C
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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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.
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Thursday, Mar 13, 2025 – Echoes Program 2510D
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Ian Boddy teams up with German drummer and electronic musician Harold Grosskopf. Grosskopf played on several Klaus Schulze albums and in Ashra and Wallenstein.
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Wednesday, Mar 12, 2025 – Echoes Program 2510C
We go back to the 1976 album, New Age of Earth by Ash Ra Tempel, the German band led by guitarist Manuel Göttsching. This album is pretty much a solo release of deep, floating ambient music.