The 2026 Grammy Awards were announced and the New, Age, Ambient and Chant category continues to confound. John Diliberto digs into this year’s nominees.
Reviews & Commentary
New Age etc Grammy Awards 2026
Tag: New Age
Playlists
Tuesday, Nov 11, 2025 – Echoes Program 2545B
Music by Wouter Kellerman, Eru Matsumoto and Chandrika Tandon. This trio of flutes, cello and voice create a world fusion meditation called Triveni. We travel its paths.
Coming Up
Monday, Nov 24: Keith Jarrett Köln Concert 50th
Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert inspired a wave of solo piano releases. It remains the best-selling solo piano album ever. We celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Coming Up
Weekend Nov 22-23, 2025: Deepspace Interview
Deepspace is Australian electronic artist Mirko Ruckels. His recent albums, Neon Blue Utopia and Water Planets, are immersive ambient albums wrapped in science fiction stories.
Coming Up
Friday, Nov 21, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from EDM artist Sasha. He scored the music for the immersive exhibition, Da Vinci Genius.
Playlists
Friday, Nov 7, 2025 – Echoes Program 2544E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Diane Arkenstone. Her release, Aquaria II: Ascension taps 90s electronic rhythms, siren wordless vocals, and electronic moods. Ascend with a Slow Flow Echoes.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Mike Oldfield-Ommadawn’s 50th
Echoes Online, Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: The Tao of Steve
In the movie The Tao of Steve, a character develops a philosophy of “being Steve.” We noticed that there’s a whole lot of Echoes music made by Steves. Here’s a five-hour uninterrupted instrumental soundscape exploring music made by Steves, Stevens, Stephens, Stephans, Stephanies, even a Stevin.
Echoes Online, Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: To Sleep, To Dream
An uninterrupted six-hour soundscape for generating dreams. Includes music by Tangerine Dream, David Gilmour, Erik Wollo, William Orbit, and many more.
Playlists
Thursday, Nov 6, 2025 – Echoes Program 2544D
On the next Echoes, we get psychedelicized. We’ll explore psychedelic music from the 1960s right up through the electronic hallucinations of the 2000s. It’s Peace Love and blown minds.