Echoes is a daily two-hour music radio program hosted by John Diliberto and distributed by Public Radio International in the United States. Stations that carry the program often air it very late at night (usually after 10 PM local time). Public Radio International, or PRI, is a not-for-profit corporation based in the United States founded in 1983 to develop non-commercial audio programming for public radio and other audio venues. ...
The program features New Age, experimental, avant-garde, ambient, and instrumental music. New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... Experimental music is any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ... An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or piece without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. ...