Albums by Mystical Sun, Patrick O’Hearn, and Japancakes may have gotten lost in the shuffle of our year end best of lists. Mystical Sun’s Deeperworlds was a disc I’d been waiting for since we interviewed him in 2004. We played this CD a lot, but I think since we had been so familiar with…
Month: December 2007
Reviews & Commentary
Five Rules for Christmas CDs
I hope many of you enjoyed our seasonal programming this year with Sonic Seasonings, An Echoes Christmas and An Echoes Winter Solstice. WEXT in Schenectady ran 30 straight hours of Echoes Christmas programming. WXPN in Philadelphia scattered at least 8 hours of programming throughout Christmas day. These programs tap into a more contemplative and often…
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The 2007 Best of Echoes Poll
The 2007 Echoes Listener Poll 1 Loreena McKennitt – An Ancient Muse 2 Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble – New Impossibilities 3 David Arkenstone – Myths and Legends 4 Patrick O’Hearn – Glaciation 5 Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale – Breathing Under Water 6 Loreena McKennitt – Nights from the Alhambra 7 Lisa…
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John Diliberto’s Ten Essential CDs for 2007
John Diliberto’s Top Ten for 2007 You’ve already seen and heard the Echoes 2007 Listener Poll, voted on by listeners and perhaps too many fan club members. And you’ll be seeing the 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2007, a list of the favorite Echoes CDs voted on by Kimberly Haas, Jeff Towne, and me. Like…
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The Perfect Echoes Gift-The Brian Eno iPod
iPods have revolutionized music listening. Music fans can travel around with 160 gigabytes of storage. That’s 40,000 songs and more than 4000 CDs worth of music. For ambient musicians like Steve Roach and Robert Rich, whose compositions last the full 72 plus minutes of a CD or the 7 hours of a DVD, the iPod…