Guitarist Terje Rypdal is an incendiary and influential figure among electric guitarists. Recording for ECM records since 1971, he's blazed a trail noted for his tone bending colors and free improvisation. We celebrate his 70th birthday in the Echoes Podcast.

Echoes interviews Pepper Proud and Masaru Higasa of New Age band, Yaima. We discuss Timothy Leary, transformational festivals, new album OvO, and sensory deprivation tanks.

Falling You’s Shine features many talented contributors as vocalists and lyricists. Instrumentalist John Zorko and two vocalists, Anji Lum and Danielle Colbeck, discuss thematic lyrics, influences, and gongs.

Nym is the recording persona of Lewis Scaife and he is creating a music born of the world, but turned into a surreal one of audio illusions. He recently released his album, Lilac Chaser.

Gurujas is the writer and singer of White Sun. She sits down with Echoes to describe how yoga and spirituality helped her acquire that Grammy in 2017, and the science of mantra.

Echoes John Diliberto takes a closer look at 8 albums from across The Best of Echoes 2017, So Far Top 25. It reveals the breadth of the list from dreampop to electronic to solo piano and more.

Johan Agebjörn is a psychologist. Mikael Ögren is a priest in the Swedish Church. But they sit at an electronic altar and explore synthesizer psychology in the Echoes Podcast.

Yasmine Hamdan is a Lebanese born singer and musician who takes her Arabic culture and infuses it with the influences of everyone from the Cocteau Twins to Prince, Arabic pop to new electronic music.

Tom Eaton is an acclaimed engineer and producer of acoustic music who also harbors a love of electronic music from Tangerine Dream to Tim Story. It comes out in a pair of ambient albums.

After abandoning synthesizers for many years, Suzanne Ciani has returned to electronic music, creating improvisations on her first electronic instrument, the Buchla Modular Synthesizer.