Get ready for the Best of Echoes 2026 So Far. As we cross the midpoint of the year, we hear the music that rose above the noise: 30 albums of sounds that open up new worlds.
Playlists
Monday, July 6, 2026 – Echoes Program 2627A
Tag: New Age
Coming Up
Monday, July 20, 2026 – Michael Stearns & Robert Rich
It’s a meeting of ambient music pioneers. Michael Stearns and Robert Rich talk about Reunion of Breath and Waves, the first collaboration of these two ground breaking artists.
Coming Up
Weekend, July 18-19, 2026 – Helpling & Reich Interview
David Helpling and Scott Reich go Through The Thought Horizon. “If you can go through the thought horizon, then you’re opening up all kinds of new experiences. You can exist beyond thought.”
Playlists
Weekend, July 4-5, 2026 – Programs 2626A & 2626B
Echoes CD of the Month rides a post-rock sound with Unwed Sailor. They embrace bass-led, instrumental music with post-rock dynamics that glide between delirious heaviness & breezy melodicism.
Coming Up
Friday, July 17, 2026 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Quiet Resonance, a guitarist from Mississippi who creates ambient landscapes. His album is Snowblind. We’ll also hear from George FitzGerald.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes – American Landscapes
A three-hour soundscape inspired by the landscapes of America, including Steve Roach, Jill Haley, Peter Kater, Paul Winter, Tycho, Pat Metheny, Patrick O’Hearn, and many more.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes – American Landscapes 2018
Music inspired by the mountains, rivers, plains and shorelines of the United States, including recordings by Paul Winter, Ry Cooder, Pat Metheny and many others.
Coming Up
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 – New Music from Beth Orton
The return of Beth Orton. She first fused folk and electronica in the ’90s, and now she’s gone even deeper with The Ground Above, a haunting, self-produced album of intimate songs.
Reviews & Commentary
American Electronic Revolution’s 25
Explore a list of 25 American electronic artists going back to Forbidden Planet in 1956 up to the latest space music and EDM explorers, all plugged in to American sockets.
Playlists
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 – Echoes Program 2626B
It’s the American Electronic Revolution, as Echoes brings you 25 electronic artists celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. Hear the music that has created an entirely new American sound.