Ambient Music from Greece and Dreampop from North Jersey Melorman, Mree and Marconi Union hold the one , two and three positions for most played albums in August on Echoes. Melorman’s Waves was the Echoes August CD of the Month. Mree’s Winterwell is the impressive sophomore album from the 19-year old Taiwanese-Bulgarian-American singer from northern…
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Echoes Top 25 for July 2013.
Queens of the Stone Age, reinvented, Leads Echoes Top 25 … Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age made Number One on the Billboard Top 200, but Olivier Libaux‘s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age was Number One on Echoes. Libaux’s UNQOTSA , in which he creates intimate, melancholic versions of tunes from this…
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Echoes Top 25-Rachel Zeffira Shines in June.
Echoes Top 25 for June features Dream-Pop, Ambient Chamber Music and Space Music. The Echoes Top 25 is led by singer-songwriter Rachel Zeffira whose album, The Deserters was the Echoes CD of the Month. This chamber pop singer is joined by several other vocal ensembles in the Top 25 including Karl Hyde, Olivier Libaux, Seven Saturdays…
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Best of Echoes 2013…So Far.
Ambient Chamber Music leads The Best of Echoes 2013 ….So Far At the halfway point of the year, I look back on some of the albums that rise above the crowd. And this year it’s been harder than most to narrow it down to the 25 CDs you’ll see below, let alone picking a number…
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Echoes Top 25 for May
Music boxes lead the Echoes Top 25 for May in the form of Rhian Sheehan’s Stories from Elsewhere, his brilliant CD of ambient chamber music that uses music boxes as one of it’s sonic motifs. It was the Echoes CD of the Month for May. You can read a review and hear tracks from it…
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Iceland to New Zealand in Echoes Top 25 for April
Ambient Chamber Music Master pieces Echoes Top 25 for April Ólafur Arnald‘s For Now I Am Winter, the Echoes CD of the Month for April, and Rhian Sheehan‘s Stories from Elsewhere top our list for April and that’s little surprise since both are masterpieces of Ambient Chamber Music. One musician comes from Iceland, the other…
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Ludovico Einaudi Leads Echoes March Madness 25
I don’t follow March Basketball Madness much, but I do like March Music Madness and it’s been a great month for music on Echoes beginning with our number one CD, In A Time Lapse by Ludovico Einaudi. It was our March CD of the Month. If Ludovico Einaudi represents the best of Ambient Chamber Music,…
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Progressive Reverberations in Echoes Top 25
Ulrich Schnauss Falls to the Top of Echoes Top 25 Music with Progressive Rock roots dominates the Echoes Top 25 for February. Ulrich Schnauss’ A Long Way to Fall was the Echoes CD of the Month. His inspirations are in 70s German space music and Krautrock as are all the musicians on the Manikin Records…
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Electronics Retro & New on Echoes Top 25
Electronic Anthologies Top the Echoes Top 25 for January I can’t recall a time when two collections headed up our monthly Top 25 list, but it happened this month with a pair of predominantly electronic anthologies. The Ambient Zone, the Echoes CD of the Month for November is in at #1. This CD of melodic…
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25 Essential Echoes CDs: The Best of 2012
25 Esssential Echoes CDs for 2012 There are always three year end lists at Echoes. The first is my personal Top Ten which embraces all the music I listen to, not must what I play on Echoes (John Diliberto’s Top Ten Albums of 2012 and John Diliberto’s Top 10 Songs for 2012). Then comes the…