Ottmar Liebert’s The Scent of Light, our August CD of the Month tops the Echoes Top 25 for August, but electronica and ambient music make a comeback after a few months off. They include Marconi Union who repeats their Top 5 performance with A Lost Connection, a download only release. Joining them are Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard’s Farscape, Darshan Ambient’s obviously ambient From Pale Hands to Weary Eyes and Sumner McKane’s What A Great Place to Be, are all electric/electronically based albums that debut in the Top Ten this month. There are nine new entries this month in the Top 25. Go to the Echoes Blog to read reviews and hear audio reviews of many of these recordings, including Marconi Union, Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard, Biomusique, California Guitar Trio, Sacred Earth and David Pritchard.
ECHOES TOP 25 FOR AUGUST 2008
| 1. | Ottmar Liebert | The Scent of Light | Spiral Subwave Records Int’l | Read the Review! |
| 2. | Jami Sieber | Unspoken: The Music of Only Breath | Out Front Music | |
| 3. | Marconi Union | A Lost Connection | MU Transmissions | |
| 4. | Don Peyote | Peyote Dreaming | Don Peyote Recordings/Interchill | |
| 5. | Gerry O’Beirne | The Bog Bodies and Other Stories | Self Released | |
| 6. | Joe Euro | Souvenir | Joe Euro Music | |
| 7. | Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard | Farscape | SPV Recordings | |
| 8. | Darshan Ambient | From Pale Hands to Weary Eyes | Lotuspike |
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| 9. | Biomusique | The 10,000 Steps | Kosmic Music |
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| 10. | Sumner McKane | What A Great Place to Be | Don’t Hit Your Sister Records | |
| 11. | California Guitar Trio | Echoes | Inner Knot | |
| 12 | Kevin Bartlett | Glow in the Dark | Aural Gratification | |
| 13. | Sacred Earth | Wind of the East | Red Feather Music |
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| 14. | Rodrigo Rodriguez | Beyond the Times | KZN Records | |
| 15. | V/A | Perceived Distances | Dataobscura | |
| 16. | Steve Roach | Empetus | Projekt | |
| 17. | Ronn McFarlane | Indigo Road | Dorian | |
| 18. | Hans-Jaochim Roedelius & Tim Story | Inlandish | High Wire Records |
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| 19. | David Cullen | Guitar Travels | Solid Air | |
| 20. | David Arkenstone | Echoes of Light and Shadow | Gemini Sun Records | |
| 21. | David Pritchard | Vertical Eden | Morphic Resonance Music | |
| 22. | Niyaz | Nine Heavens | Six Degrees | |
| 23. | Joan Jeanrenaud | Strange Toys | Talking House Records | |
| 24. | Forastiere | Why Not? | Candyrat Records | |
| 25. | Fernwood | Almeria | Self Released |
Good post. Agree with you the Liebert choice.