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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Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 – Big Ears Festival 2025
John Diliberto takes you on the music high of Big Ears 2025, exploring music by the artists he experienced at the festival across its four days and over 100 acts.
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Tuesday, Apr 8, 2025 – Peter Gregson Interview
Peter Gregson is a classically-trained cellist, who went into ambient chamber music on 2021’s Patina, adding synthesizers and processing to his strings. He has a new, eponymous recording.
Playlists
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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Monday, Apr 7, 2025 – Ravi Shankar Remembered
It’s a journey with an Icon when we celebrate the 105th Birthday of Indian sitar master, Ravi Shankar. His music spanned from classical Indian ragas to films to world fusion.
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Weekend, Apr 5-6, 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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Friday, Apr 4, 2025 – New Music from Silkroad Ensemble
Music by The Silk Road Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens. They’ve taken a more Americana turn since Giddens took the reins from founder Yo-Yo Ma, but they still have that global aesthetic.
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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, Apr 3, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Robot Koch. This musician who has been on the edges of electronica and EDM for years goes full new age on an album of drifting moods called Allow.
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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.