Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Produced by John Diliberto

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A weekly short feature on fascinating happenings in new music

Echo Location is a 3 1/2 minute weekly series that features an artist, event, album or trend in new music. Radio producer and music critic John Diliberto has had a long and deep relationship with new music and each week he shares the excitement of new discoveries with Echo Location.

Diliberto's interests are wide-ranging, from the French retro-lounge duo Air, to Balmorhea's Americana chamber music, to Gerry O'Beirne's Celtic fingerstyle guitar and more.

He's a segue master. Each edition of Echo Location features a beautifully edited music blend, that's combined with John's thoughtful insights and artists's comments to make a sound-rich journey for listeners.

Echo Location is available to all stations. Available each Wednesday, it can be scheduled as a weekly series or individual episodes can be used as desired on their own, within an arts or news magazine program. Hide full description

Echo Location is a 3 1/2 minute weekly series that features an artist, event, album or trend in new music. Radio producer and music critic John Diliberto has had a long and deep relationship with new music and each week he shares the excitement of new discoveries with Echo Location. Diliberto's interests are wide-ranging, from the French retro-lounge duo Air, to Balmorhea's Americana chamber music, to Gerry O'Beirne's Celtic fingerstyle guitar and more. He's a segue master. Each edition of Echo Location features a beautifully edited music blend, that's combined with John's thoughtful insights and artists's comments to make a sound-rich journey for listeners. Echo Location is available to all stations. Available each Wednesday, it can be scheduled as a weekly series or... Show full description


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Native flute master R. Carlos Nakai, luthier and guitarist William Eaton, and world percussionist Will Clipman return with an album of intuitive im...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:30
An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:30
Caption: Daevid Allen of Gong
It's been 40 years since Daevid Allen convened his space gypsy rock band Gong which influenced everyone from Ozric Tentacles to Steve Roach. Allen...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 1
Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and Indian percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They’re updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin'...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 1
Caption: Carmen Rizzo
Huun Huur Tu is a band from Tuva specializing in the ancient style of harmonic singing that comes from that region. Their music is combined with th...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 1
Caption: Frio Suite
Legendary guitarist Phil Keaggy and keyboardist Jeff Johnson collaborate on a tone poem of intricately painted landscapes, inspired by Texas' Frio ...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 05, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 1
Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 1
Caption: Rena Jones, Credit: John Diliberto
There's a lot of looping, electronic cellists out there, but Rena Jones is one of the few who is also orchestrating her own electronica backings, c...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 1
Caption: Donna De Lory
Donna De Lory turns Hindi chants into spiritual pop songs. A back-up singer for Madonna and a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right, Donna De ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 1
Old German and hurdy gurdys collide with synthesizers and grooves with Qntal. Oud player Michael Popp and singer Sigrid Hausen also perform in the ...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
Caption: Chris Bocast
Ambient guitar meets electronica percussion via the internet in a CD of cinematic sweep

  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30

  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 1
Caption: Ray Montford
AN INTERVIEW WITH RAY MONTFORD Ray Montford is one of those chameleon guitarists who can play just about anything, but on his album, A Fragile Bala...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:30
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Post-rock ambience in Milwaukee, and San Francisco glitch melancholy

  • Added: Oct 09, 2008
  • Length: 00:03:27
Ludovico Einaudi talks about his lush, harmonic piano music

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 00:03:30
Sumner McKane has been releasing albums of evocative soundscapes dipped in Americana as cinematic as a John Ford western and as nuanced as Andrew W...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 00:03:30
Fernwood mixes Americana sounds with Appalachian strings, along with bouzoukis from the Middle East and Ireland and sitars from India.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 00:03:30
Singer-songwriter delves into dark and quirky places

Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 17, 2008
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 2
Still endearing after 20 years, the quirky Penguin Cafe Orchestra's CDs are re-released to a new audience

Bought by WBHM-FM


  • Added: Aug 18, 2008
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 1