Echoes Top 25 for November: Bombay Dub Tops

World music fusions bookend the Echoes Top 25 for November as electronic artists and acoustic revisionists dominate the list.  Bombay Dub Orchestra, our November CD of the Month, tops the list, (read a full review)  followed closely by the independent release from Vic Hennegan, Aqua Vista his homage to space music.  You can find out more about that CD in Hennegan’s Echo Location.   Fernwood’s global Americana chamber music came in high based on their wonderful live performance for Thanksgiving.   You can hear and read more about them in an Echo Location.   Expect to hear more about John Gregorius, whose #5 CD will be number one in December as our Echoes CD of the Month (read review and Echo Location).   Sumner McKane remains strong as does General Fuzz.  Check out the Echoes Blog for profiles, music and Echo Locations on many of these artists.

 ECHOES TOP 25

NOVEMBER 2008

1. Bombay Dub Orchestra 3 Cities Six Degrees Records
2. Vic Hennegan Aqua Vista Alien Tribe Records
3. Fernwood Almeria Self Released
4. Anja Lechner and Vasillis Tsabropoulos Melos ECM Records

5. John Gregorius Heaven and Earth Spotted Peccary

6. Sumner McKane What A Great Place to Be Don’t Hit Your Sister Records
7. Solas For Love and Laughter Compass Records
8. Ronn McFarlane Indigo Road Dorian
9. General Fuzz Soulful Filling Self Released
10. Peter Kater & Dominic Miller In a Dream Point of Light Records
11. Sundad The Journey Continues Sundad Records
12. The Glimmer Room Home Without the Journey Neu Harmony and A-Frame Media

13. Jeff Pearce Rainshadow Sky Jeff Pearce Music
14. Saul Stokes Villa Galaxia Binary/Stokesmusic
15. Johann Johannsson Fordlandia 4AD/Touch

16. Jenny Scheinman Crossing the Field Koch/Cryptogramophone/Tzadik
17. Digitonal Save Your Light for Darker Days Just Music
18. Jesse Cook Frontiers Koch Records
19. Alu Lobotomy Sessions Alu Music
20. Spirits in Ambience Sahara Aurora Blue

21. Karda Estra The Last of the Libertine  Cyclops Records
22. Goddamn Electric Bill Topics for Gossip 99x/10

 

23. The Imagined Village The Imagined Village Real World
24. Doug Smith Guitar Parts Solid Air Records
25. Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze Sira ObliqSound  

 
 

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