Top 25 for June 2014.
Guitars Pluck at the Top of the Echoes Top 25 for June
Three guitarists release one of their strongest albums this past month. Topping the list is Carl Weingarten’s CD of the Month For June, Life Under Stars, a beautiful pastoral tinged Americana travelogue. John Luttrell is the newest of the three and he’s created an orchestrated CD called The Dream Exchange. Finally Mark Dwane, always prolific, finds new dimensions in his guitar synthesizer orchestrations on Anomlies. Unfortunately, it’s only a limited edition release, but it should go wider. All three musicians are among the most underrated guitar slingers in the country. Look further down and you’ll find our July CD of the Month Pick, Yoed Nir’s cello orchestra album, The Next Dream. Coldplay makes their first ever appearance in the Echoes Top 25 as do Blackbird Blackbird, Lykke Li and Ceiri Torjussen.
TOP 25 FOR June 2014
- Carl Weingarten – Life Under Stars (Mutiphase Records)
- John Luttrell – The Dream Exchange (Ottersong Records)
- Mark Dwane – Anomalies (Trondant)
- Coldplay – Ghost Stories (Parlophone UK)
- Blackbird Blackbird – Tangerine Sky (Ingrooves)
- Yoed Nir – The Next Dream (Yoed Nir)
- Lykke Li – I Never Learn (Atlantic)
- Ceiri Torjussen – Test (OST) (Moviescore Media)
- ARC – Umbra (DiN)
- Brian Reitzell – Auto Music (Smalltown Supersound)
- Invisible Allies – Conversations with Bees (Aleph Zero Records)
- Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines (Mercury Classics)
- Jeff Pearce – With Evening Above (Jeff Pearce Music)
- Amatorski – From Clay to Figures (Crammed Discs)
- Erik Scott – And the Earth Bleeds (Erik Scott)
- Phox – Phox (Partisan Records)
- Michael Bradford – The Long Night (Varese Records)
- Richard Leo Johnson – Celeste (Richard Leo Johnson)
- Petteri Sariola – Through the Eyes of Others (Candyrat Records)
- Tomas Barfod – Love Me (Secretly Canadian)
- James Blackshaw – Fantomas:Le Faux Magistrat (Tompkins Square)
- Jeff Beal – House of Cards Season 2 (OST) (Varese Records)
- Time for Three – Time for Three (Universal Music Classics)
- Eno & Hyde – Someday World (Warp Records)
- 9Bach – Tincian (Real World)