The return of Ancient Future. The band that coined the term World Fusion in 1978 has their first significant release in nearly 25 years. I talk to founder and guitarist Matthew Montfort.
Playlists
Weekend, Sept 13-14, 2025 – Programs 2536A & 2536B
Tag: New Age
Coming Up
Friday, September 26, 2024 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, melodic ambient music from C37. He’s an English electronic musician with a penchant for streamlined grooves and lyrical melodies. We’ll hear from his album Beautiful Beginnings.
Playlists
Friday, September 12, 2025 – Echoes Program 2536E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear a pioneer of electronic music in film, John Carpenter. The director of Halloween, Escape from New York, and Vampires also scores most of his films.
Coming Up
Thursday, September 25, 2025 – Ravi Kulur & Barry Phillips
World fusion from Ravi Kulur and Barry Phillips. Kulur plays bansuri flute and Phillips plays cello, an instrument he’s used in folk music, jazz and new age music in the past.
Playlists
Thursday, Sept 11, 2025 – Echoes Program 2536D
Air’s Moon Safari album gets an epic and ambient rework by Vegyn. It’s called Blue Moon Safari. Vegyn maintains the downtempo mood of the original but takes it into new atmospheres.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Sept 24, 2025 – Ancient Dreams
We celebrate the 40th anniversary of Patrick O’Hearn’s debut album, Ancient Dreams. This signature release was a road map of mood and mystery and set the tone for the Private Music label.
Playlists
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 – Echoes Program 2536C
Music from Suzanne Vega’s latest album, Flying with Angels. It’s an atmospheric album with a broader, more philosophical outlook that ingests the state of the world and turns it back out.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Sept 23, 2025 – Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
We celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Epsilon in Malaysian Pale, the second solo album by Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese. It’s hailed as a masterpiece of ambient and electronic music.
Playlists
Tuesday, Sept 9, 2025 – Echoes Program 2536B
We go Otherworldly, the new album from British electronic artist, Geoglyph. Geoglyph is Chris Charles and his new album is inspired by Dune and it’s vast, worm infested sandscapes.
Coming Up
Monday, Sept 22, 2025 – Einaudi Vs. Einaudi
Hear a 2-round bout between composer Ludovico Einaudi and his son, Leo Einaudi with the father’s original tracks from The Summer Portraits followed by the son’s Einaudi vs Einaudi.