We pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the halfway point. John Diliberto then runs them down from #25 to number 1. It begins with a band we’ve never heard of before and ends with an Icon of Echoes. We’ll hear from artists who put out signature releases, others reaching for ambitious highs and still others reflecting on very long careers.
We pick the 25 best albums from the first half of the year.
To celebrate Independence Day, Echoes takes a trek across American Landscapes with music evoking the purple mountain majesties and fruited plains.
Steve Roach is an iconic electronic musician from Southern California via the Arizona deserts.
Echoes Top 25 for June finds Digitonal’s “Beautiful Broken” at the top, followed by March’s CD of the Month pick, “Backyards” by Lanterna, and guitarist Jesse Cook’s “One World”.
It’s Slow Flow Friday on Echoes, an all instrumental soundscape to take you into the weekend.
Echoes goes undercover as we hear music you know performed by artists who aren’t the originals. Everyone is covering music these days from 60s pop songs to 70s progressive rock to 80s New Wave and beyond.
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Minimalist pioneer Terry Riley turns 80 and shows no sign of slowing down. On his birthday, Daevid Allen, Jon Hassell, Kronos Quartet, Mike Oldfield and more talk about the influence of this minimalist icon who has gone beyond minimalism.
Terry Riley, along with Philip Glass and Steve Reich, is among the holy trinity of minimalism.
There are a couple of guitarists in the third generation of post-Leo Kottke and John Fahey pickers who have risen to the top. Kaki King is one. Andy McKee is the other.