Andy Bell wields guitar distortion in the shoegaze band called Ride. But on his new solo album, Pinball Wanderer, he takes a more dream pop, downtempo direction.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Mar 19, 2025 – New Music from Andy Bell
Tag: New Age
Playlists
Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025 – Echoes Program 2509B
We talk to a pioneer of electronic music, David Borden, the founding member of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. Their debut album from 1973 remains a classic today.
Playlists
Monday, Mar 3, 2025 – Echoes Program 2509A
The March CD of the Month is a meeting of Krautrock & Ambient Country when Immersion get together with SUSS on the album, Nanocluster Volume 3. It sends western twang into ambient spaces.
Coming Up
Weekend, Mar 15-16, 2025 – Remembering David Parsons
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.
Playlists
Weekend, Mar 1-2, 2025 – Programs 2508A & 2508B
Two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim Kimo West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for Hawaiian slack key music.
CD of the Month
Echoes March CD of the Month: Immersion & SUSS
The electronic duo Immersion with Colin Newman and Malka Spigel combine with Ambient Country band SUSS for a meeting of ambient, Country & Krautrock on Nanocluster Vol.3
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 February: Dieter Spears Breezes into Top Spot
Late Day Summer Breeze by Dieter Spears tops the Echoes February 2025 list, followed by a collaboration between Immersion and SUSS, Ludovico Einaudi, Mogwai, C37, and 20 other great CDs.
Coming Up
Friday, Mar 14, 2025 – New Music by Mogwai
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.
Playlists
Friday, Feb 28, 2025 – Echoes Program 2508E
New music from Bill Nelson in what seems to be an endless stream of new music. This one is called Studio Cadet and echoes the early 60s guitar band sound of The Ventures and The Shadows.
Coming Up
Thursday, March 13, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
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.