John Diliberto

Pennsylvania

Executive Producer and Host at Echoes Radio

Executive Producer at WSHU Public Radio

John Diliberto is the Executive Producer and Host of Echoes. Vinyl Vigilance is his occasional trawl through his vinyl collection.

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R.I.P. James Lowe, Singer for The Electric Prunes

4 weeks ago | echoes.org | John Diliberto

by John Diliberto 5/31/2025James Lowe has had his final dream. The singer for The Electric Prunes unplugs at age 82. I can’t tell you how important The Electric Prunes were to me, especially for their two hit songs, “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” and “Get Me to the World on Time.” I had both songs as singles and 58 years later, they are always in my head and I still often go to them. In fact, “Get Me to the World on Time” was my number one played song on Spotify in 2024.
Echoe June 2025 CD of the Month: Marconi Union

4 weeks ago | echoes.org | John Diliberto

by John Diliberto 5/30/2025Marconi Union has gone through a few changes since we last heard them in 2021 with the album, Signals, Echoes 2021 CD of the Month. The band started as a duo of Jamie Crossley and Richard Talbot in 2003 with their debut Under Wires and Searchlights. In 2012, Duncan Meadows joined the band, bringing a more melodic sensibility to the group. Now, Talbot has left, making the band a duo again, and their sound has evolved.
Hawkwind & Bowie Violinist Simon House Passes 1948-2025

1 month ago | echoes.org | John Diliberto

There are musicians whose names might not be on the marquee, but whose presence echoes through the most adventurous corridors of music. Simon House, the virtuosic violinist and keyboardist whose career spanned symphonic prog to space rock, passed away in 2024 at the age of 76. He was a sonic voyager, bending strings and timbre in ways that still ripple across genres. Born in Nottingham on August 29, 1948, Simon House was, in many ways, a traveler between worlds.
Echoes May CD of the Month: David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor

1 month ago | echoes.org | John Diliberto

by John Diliberto 5/2/2025The Precious Dark is a meeting of two, very different musical minds. David Helpling is a guitarist turned synthesizer architect, whose music usually has a penchant for melody and dynamism. You can hear that on his work with Jon Jenkins, all CD of the Month picks, as well as his solo releases, including his previous CD of the Month picks, Rune and In.Eric “The” Taylor is less well-known.
Thursday, April 24, 2025: Slow Flow Echoes

2 months ago | echoes.org | John Diliberto

Thursday, April 24, 2025: Slow Flow Echoes Guitarist Brian Fechino on a Slow Flow Echoes. On a Slow Flow Echoes new music by Nashville guitar slinger Brian Fechino. He doesn’t do country on his new EP A Safe Place. He creates atmospheric instrumentals with a pastoral feel, mixing sounds of nature, soothing rhythms, lush pads and Brian’s own ambient guitar landscapes. John Diliberto always has a safe place for you to free your mind on a Slow Flow Echoes
Wednesday, April 23, 2025: Lost Records, Bloom and Rage

2 months ago | echoes.org | John Diliberto

On the next Echoes, new music from the video game Lost Records, Bloom and Rage. We don’t delve into video soundtracks so often although we probably should. We know there’s a lot of good music there and we got one in recently that you’ll definitely be hearing. It’s for the video game Lost Records: Bloom and Rage. It features an underscore by Milk and Bone and several tracks from the trio of Ruth Radelet, Nat Walker, and Adam Miller.
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2025 - Earth Day 2025 Soundscape

2 months ago | echoes.org | John Diliberto

It’s the sound of the planet on the next Echoes as we celebrate Earth Day 2025. We’ll hear music inspired by the vistas and life on earth, as well as music made from the sounds of the earth. A lot of artists use aspects of nature as imagery, many use the sounds of nature. More than any other locale, Japanese artists have embraced the sounds of nature into their music. We’ll hear a suite of music from the recently rediscovered recordings of Hiroshi Yoshimura who passed in 2003.
Ravi Shankar Remembered on his 105th birthday

2 months ago | wshu.org | John Diliberto

It’s a journey with an Icon when we celebrate the 105th Birthday of Indian sitar master, Ravi Shankar. His music spanned from classical Indian ragas to films to world fusion. We’ll hear an interview with the legendary sitarist talking about an ancient sound and spirit that helped transform modern music. Shankar died in 2012, but we remember him today on Echoes, starting at 6 p.m. on 91.1, 89.9, and wshu.org.
A Journey Through Big Ears Festival 2025

2 months ago | echoes.org | John Diliberto

by John Diliberto 4/4/2025My journey to Big Ears Festival was unlike any of the other five I’ve attended in the last decade. It was the most Echoes-centric festival ever with Steve Roach, SUSS and Immersion, Explosions in the Sky, Laraaji, Flore Laurentiene, William Tyler, Mary Lattimore, Anoushka Shankar, Julia Holter and more performing. EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKYLet’s begin at the end. The last performance of the festival was the one that left me wanting more.
Echoes April CD of the Month: Ludovico Einaudi

Mar 30, 2025 | echoes.org | John Diliberto

by John Diliberto03-30-2025Major labels have jumped full bore into the ambient chamber music frontier although they may market it as neo-classical, new classical or post-classical. Artists like Max Richter, Olafur Arnalds and Peter Gregson have found homes at Sony, Decca and other label imprints. While critics have extolled this music, I rarely see Ludovico Einaudi mentioned in this context.