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 from Norway, exemplifying just how broad the Ambient Chamber Music zeitgeist is.  There’s little doubt these albums will be near the top of our year end lists.  It’s been a fantastic month for music with newer artists to Echoes like Sleeping Forest, Apricot Rail, Rajendra Teredesa and Spiro.

ECHOES TOP 25 FOR APRIL 2013

1. Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter (Mercury Classics)
2. Rhian Sheehan – Stories from Elsewhere (Darla Records)
3. v/a – Fresh Handmade Sound – The Sound Bath (Lush Limited)
4. Shaman’s Dream – Prana Pulse (Sounds True)
5. Sleeping Forest – Rise of Nature (Hadra)
6. William Tyler – Impossible Truth (Merge Records)
7. Cliff Martinez/Skrillex – Spring Breakers (OST) (Big Beat Records)
8. Three Fields – Wherever You’re Standing Now (Installed Worlds)
9. Sumner McKane – Select Visual History (Sumner McKane)
10. Dead Can Dance – In Concert (Pias America)
11. Solar Fields – Origin #02 (Ultimae)
12. Lloyd Cole and Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Selected Studies Vol.1 (Bureau B)
13. Dido – Girl Who Got Away (RCA)
14. Robert Jurjendal – Source of Joy (Unsung Records)
15. Rick Smith – Trance (OST) (UME)
16. Rajendra Teredesai – Path of the Divine (Real Music)
17. Apricot Rail – Quarrels (Hidden Schoal Recordings)
18. Scott August – Hidden Journey (Cedar Mesa Music)
19. Ludovico Einaudi – In a Time Lapse (Ponderosa Music & Art)
20. Spiro – Kaleidophonica (Real World)
21. Mark Holland and N. Scott Robinson – Lost in the Beauty of it All (Mark Holland)
22. Delerium – Music Box Opera (Nettwerk Records)
23. AOMUSIC – Hokulea (AOMUSIC)
24. Painted Raven – The Great Gallery (Painted Raven)
25. Don Peris – The Old Century (Badman Records)

~John Diliberto (((echoes)))

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