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 here.  That album leads a fantastic month of music that includes more ambient chamber music albums with Jami Sieber’s– Timeless, Morgan Doctor’s– Major Over Minor and Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter.  And just when you thought any album called Yoga Moods had to suck, David & Steve Gordon put together a nice chilled collection with that very name.  Check out the rest of the Echoes Top 25 for May.

ECHOES TOP 25 for MAY

1. Rhian Sheehan – Stories from Elsewhere (Darla Records)
2. v/a – Yoga Moods (Sequoia Records)
3. Syriana – The Road to Damascus (Real World)
4. v/a – Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake (StorySound Records)
5. Jami Sieber – Timeless (Jami Sieber)
6. Glenn Jones – My Garden State (Thrill Jockey)
7. William Tyler – Impossible Truth (Merge Records)
8. Morgan Doctor – Major Over Minor (Aporia Records)
9. Mike Dawes – What Just Happened (Candy Rat)
10. Three Fields – Wherever You’re Standing Now (Installed Worlds)
11. Karl Hyde – Edgeland (UMe)
12. Kaki King – Glow (Velour Recordings – Frontline)
13. Stripmall Architecture – Suburban Reverb (Kilk)
14. Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter (Mercury Classics)
15. Dead Can Dance – In Concert (Pias America)
16. Robin Guthrie – Fortune (soleil après minuit)
17. North Atlantic Drift – Monuments (Sound in Silence)
18. Robert Jurjendal – Source of Joy (Unsung Records)
19. Still Corners – Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop)
20. Starr Parodi & Jeff Eden Fair – Bert Stern: Original Mad Man (MagicMotor Records)
21. Hem – Departure and Farewell (Redeye)
22. Rena Jones – Echoes (Cartesian Binary Recordings)
23. Don Peris – The Old Century (Badman Records)
24. Gaudi – In Between Times (Six Degrees)
25. Portico Quartet – Live Remix (Real World)

~John Diliberto (((echoes)))

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