Singer Agnes Obel returns with her first album in 6 years, The Meaning of Flowers. It’s a haunting meditation on motherhood and fame. It’s also the Echoes CD of the Month for October.

Music by Mamak Khadem, the extraordinary Iranian singer. She has an album of Persian fusion called Remembrance. We'll also hear some downtempo eastern grooves by the Zikr Project.

Downtempo artist Bonobo goes even more chill with his album, Distance in Static. And on the acoustic side, we'll hear the latest from finger-style virtuoso Tim Farrell, Hidden Treasure.

Danish singer and composer Agnes Obel explores the vicissitudes of childbirth and new beginnings on her 5th album, The Meaning of Flowers, Echoes October CD of the Month.

Trumpeter Mark Isham returns with his first solo album in 27 years. It’s called At The Carousel Club. Isham takes us on a wild ride where every aspect of his career meets in one album.

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Steve Reich, was among the minimalist composers who shifted the firmament of music from Classical to Pop. To celebrate his 90th birthday, here are 10 essential Steve Reich recordings.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Bodhiheart, a new age jazz ensemble mixing piano, cello, global percussion and bass and Special EFX guitarist Chieli Minucci with a solo, layered guitar album.

Trumpeter Mark Isham returns with his first solo album in 27 years. It’s called At The Carousel Club. Isham takes us on a wild ride where every aspect of his career meets in one album.

Hammock talk about the Christian experiences, LSD trips and disaffection with current politics. Pete Roth and Bill Bruford talk about electric jazz generations.

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On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Erik Wøllo. The Norwegian guitarist and electronic artist has an album called Sojourns. We'll also hear the electronic designs of Time Wharp.

Marissa Nadler has an EP of covers and extra tracks called The Wrath of the Clouds. We'll also hear from guitarist Randal Meek and his homage to Hawaii called Longings.

Summer’s over and Fall has officially arrived. John Diliberto paints sound in Autumnal colors with classic tunes, as well as new music. It’s an Echoes Autumnal Equinox soundscape.

Famed progressive rock drummer of Yes and King Crimson, Bill Bruford, is drawn out of retirement by guitarist Pete Roth to create a different take on fusion.

Hammock talk about the Christian experiences, LSD trips and disaffection with current politics that fuel their album, The Second Coming was a Moonrise.

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On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Belgian ambient composer Dirk Serries. He teams up with saxophonist Trosta on an album of ambient improvisations called Island On The Moon.

Music from another disciple of Windham Hill guitarist and founder, Will Ackerman. His name is Randal Meek, and Ackerman produced his album, Longings. We'll also hear from Karavan Sarai.

On the next Echoes, Thelonius Monk goes serene with Jon Batiste. We’ll also hear guitarist Will Ackerman and his meditative album, Home. John Diliberto is right at home on Echoes.

World flutist Peter Phippen & ambient artist Eric “the” Taylor travel in a landscape of organic moss and digital vines on their album Two by Twilight, creating a world transformed and surreal.

Brian Eno is known as the High Priest of ambient music, but in 2005 he released a vocal album, Another Day on Earth that is being reissued. He talked about it on Echoes.

Syrian-Armenian-American singer and producer KÁRYYN’s music lives at the intersection of sound, spirit, and physics. It explores her inner turmoil through the language of physics.

An icon of 1970s German electronic music returns. Guitarist Michael Rother from Harmonia, and Neu! has an album with Vittoria Maccabruni called As Long As the Light.

Brian Eno is bringing back Opal Records, the label he founded in 1988, with reissues of Another Day on Earth and Drawn from Life which have been largely unavailable for nearly two decades.

Pastor Tony Pounders returns with a Quiet Resonance album featuring his twang inflected ambient guitar orchestrations. We’ll also hear Sheherazaad’s latest album of eastern modalities.

Singer Julia Holter makes pop music that sounds like a dream. Her latest is called Materia. We’ll also hear recently released music by Chick Corea from a 1972 solo performance.

Syrian-Armenian-American singer and producer KÁRYYN’s music lives at the intersection of sound, spirit, and physics. It explores her inner turmoil through the language of physics.

The Echoes CD of the Month takes us deep into meditative sounds. World flutist Peter Phippen & electronic artist Eric “the” Taylor create a journey of improvisations in alien soundscapes.

On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from Kevin Keller. The ambient chamber music artist takes a turn to the Middle Ages, adapting hymns from Abbess Hildegard von Bingen on his album, Evensong.

We'll hear music by Lunar Noon, a choral dream pop project of Michelle Zheng. Her debut album is Symbolic Creature. We also have music from Robot Koch's Sand And Foam project remixed.

Techno DJs Felsmann & Tiley take the ambient classical pill and dial up a cinematic electronic sound on their second album, Protomensch. They explore the idiocy and ingenuity of mankind.

On the next Echoes, Glasgow singer Alex Amor from her debut, Heavenly Bodies. And we’ll hear the cello extended into minimalist variations by Caspar Claus from his album, Cells.

Peter Phippen and Eric “the” Taylor take you into a contemplative state with flutes and synthesizers on their album, Two by Twilight. It's Echoes September CD of the Month.

Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery are best known for their tenures with Genesis and Marillion. They come together on the all-instrumental release, The Roaring Waves.

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David Holmes is a longtime giant of electronic music and a prolific film composer. He teams up with singer Raven Violet to create a politically-charged album, Blind on a Galloping Horse.

Guitarist Tom Caufield brings us an album without any guitar. Using synthesizers and a violinist, he channels the sound of progressive groups like Popol Vuh and Vangelis.

Music by Baltvus from their sixth album, Manifest. The Bolivian trio is in the psychedelic tradition of Khruangbin, mixing acid rock guitars, trippy songs and eastern flourishes.

Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery are best known for their tenures with Genesis and Marillion. They come together on the all-instrumental release, The Roaring Waves.

On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear new music by trumpeter Jeff Oster, who plugs in to a new lo-fi electronic sound to create an ambient jazz loungescape. Also music from Bill Nelson.

The Tank presents an extraordinary group of singers, David Hykes and his Harmonic Choir, in a unique and profound listening experience.

Moby covers a song by Cream, and it’s not one of the big ones. He takes a haunting track from Disraeli Gears and turns it slowcore. We’ll also hear something from Beautiful Chorus.

New music by Thunder Bae. That’s an electronic artist and singer from Düsseldorf, for whom synthesizers and computers are native instruments. We'll hear her debut album, A Woman.