Tubular Bells’ composer Mike Oldfield talks about Ommadawn, his two-sided epic from 1975. It’s partly an homage to his mother, who died during the recording, and her Irish roots.
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Wednesday, Nov 5, 2025 – Ommadawn’s 50th
Tag: New Age
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025 – Echoes Program 2542B
Eric Hilton is one half of the group, Thievery Corporation, but he’s been amassing a prolific solo catalog. He has one called Midnight Ragas that features Natalia Clavier.
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Tuesday, Nov 4, 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.
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Monday, Oct 20, 2025 – Echoes Program 2542A
We talk with Bluetech about using the story of Laika, the first dog Cosmonaut. On his album, Spacehop Chronicles 2, he creates an electronic tone poem of hope, fantasy and grief.
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Monday, Nov 3, 2025: Azam Ali’s Synesthesia
Azam Ali of Vas and Niyaz returns with a new solo album, Synesthesia, exploring themes of sensory perception, loss, fear and love. It’s Echoes November CD of the Month.
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Echoes Weekend: November 1-2, 2025: Azam Ali Interview
The voice of Azam Ali is heard on TV and films, with the groups Vas and Niyaz, and on several solo releases in a mix of ancient Persia and modern modalities. Her new album is Synesthesia.
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Weekend, Oct 18-19, 2025 – Echoes Program 2541A
On a Slow Flow Echoes some deep ambient improvisations by electronic artist Robert Rich and Italian ambient guitarist Luca Formentini. They head far into the sky on Cloud Ornament.
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Friday, Oct 31, 2025 – An Echoes Halloween
John Diliberto is your crypt keeper of sonic terror, creating a soundscape of whispered voices, ambient ghosts and hip death goddesses as we soundtrack an Echoes Halloween.
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Friday, Oct 17, 2025 – Echoes Program 2541E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music out of Norway by Erik Wøllo. He’s released a double CD set called Solastalgia that taps some of his electronic influences for a sound of the future.
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Thursday, Oct 30, 2025 – New Music from Rival Consoles
An electronic excursion with Rival Consoles. Landscape from Memory is the ninth studio by the UK artist, Ryan Lee West, and it may be his most kinetic and accessible yet.