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, Apr 1, 2025 – MAPS: The Echoes Interview
Tag: New Age
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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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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.
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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.
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Tuesday, Mar 25, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we enter the temple of Steve Roach’s Sanctuary of Desire. We’ll go into one of the long, evolving tracks from this master of sequencer-driven music.
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Tuesday, Mar 11, 2025 – Echoes Program 2510B
It seems like only yesterday that Erik Wøllo released his album, Solastalgia and now he has new one, Where the River Widens. It’s inspired, once again, by his home in Norway.