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.
No one can embrace all of the Big Ears Festival but we have a rundown of the 2025 edition which drew much of its music from the Echoesphere. John Diliberto takes us into a music utopia.
New music by C37. That’s the moniker of British electronic artist Paul Cudby, who has been making chilled vignettes for a few years now. He has a new album, Into Thin Air.
Music by The Silk Road Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens. They’ve taken a more Americana turn since Giddens took the reins from founder Yo-Yo Ma, but they still have that global aesthetic.
New music from Vega Trails. It’s a group put together by Portico Quartet bassist Milo Fitpatrick and takes a jazz-inflected, chamber music approach to cinematic compositions.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Robot Koch. This musician who has been on the edges of electronica and EDM for years goes full new age on an album of drifting moods called Allow.
We hear new music by SINE, the German electronic producer who also runs the Sine Music label. He has a new solo release called Impuls. We surf the Sine waves on Echoes.
New music by guitarist Carl Weingarten. He’s been recording various angles of progressive music for decades, specializing in slide guitar. He has a new album of pastoral moods.
Joe Boyd is a legend in music from producing Pink Floyd and Nick Drake to his Hannibal world music label, and more. Now he’s written a book about the influence of world music on western culture.