Icelandic ambient chamber music composer Ólafur Arnalds teams up with Swedish pop star, Loreen on an EP of personal, introspective songs called Sages. John Diliberto talks to them.
Coming Up
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 – Olafur Arnalds and Loreen
Tag: synthesizer
Living Room Concerts
Immersion and SUSS, Performing Live On Echoes
Get immersed in the Nanocluster with Immersion and Suss, live. This collaboration travels the borders of ambient, country and electronic music on their album, Nanocluster Volume 3.
Playlists
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 – Echoes Program 2518C
Ben Neill has been at the bleeding edge of new music for decades with his Mutantrumpet. Now he has a book, Diffusing Music – Trajectories of Sonic Democratization
Coming Up
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new space music by Matthias Lehmann from his latest album, Zauberland, and we’ll hear a 1970s French space music pioneer, Zanov from his album, Lost in the Future.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Steve Roach Talk at Big Ears Festival 2025.
Playlists
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 – Echoes Program 2518B
It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf. They’ve created an album called Doppelganger that looks back at the golden age of Krautrock.
Coming Up
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
Music from Hollan Holmes. The Texas based electronic artist is a disciple of Steve Roach and you can hear it on his album, Sacred Places. It’s in the sacred space of a Slow Flow Echoes.
CD of the Month
Echoes May CD of the Month: David Helpling & Eric the Taylor
The Precious Dark by David Helpling & Eric “The” Taylor is an immersion in an aural architectural space that places you in a world that has secrets hiding in its corners.
Playlists
Weekend, May 3-4, 2025 – Programs 2517A & 2517B
Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra by Synergy (Larry Fast) was released 50 years ago. There were no guitars or drums on the album, just synthesizers creating epic, orchestral tracks.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 April: Ludovico Einaudi at the Top
The Summer Portraits by Ludovico Einaudi tops the Echoes April 2025 list, followed by a collaboration between Immersion and SUSS, Carl Weingarten, and 22 other great CDs.