As we celebrate 25 Years of Echoes, listeners voted for their favorite Echoes Albums.
Here’s the complete list. You can hear the top 25 of them on the Wednesday, November 19 Echoes broadcast. If you’re a subscriber to Echoes Online, you can hear all 250 in a series of “Wordless Echoes” streams.
Rank |
Artist |
Album Name |
Amazon/iTunes/Misc |
| 1 | Steve Roach | Dreamtime Return | Buy From Amazon |
| 2 | Steve Roach | Structures from Silence | Buy From Amazon |
| 3 | Brian Eno | Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks | Buy From Amazon |
| 4 | Enya | Watermark | Buy From Amazon |
| 5 | Mike Oldfield | Tubular Bells | Buy From Amazon |
| 6 | Brian Eno | Another Green World | Buy From Amazon |
| 7 | Tangerine Dream | Phaedra | Buy From Amazon |
| 8 | Michael Hedges | Aerial Boundaries | Buy From Amazon |
| 9 | Loreena McKennitt | The Book of Secrets | Buy From Amazon |
| 10 | Vangelis | Bladerunner | Buy From Amazon |
| 11 | Patrick O’Hearn | So Flows the Current | Buy From Amazon |
| 12 | Jean-Michel Jarre | Oxygene | Buy From Amazon |
| 13 | Peter Gabriel | Passion | Buy From Amazon |
| 14 | Ulrich Schnauss | Far Away Trains Passing By | Buy From Amazon |
| 15 | David Helping & Jon Jenkins | Treasure | Buy From Amazon |
| 16 | Ludovico Einaudi | Divenire | Buy From Amazon |
| 17 | Brian Eno & Harold Budd | The Pearl | Buy From Amazon |
| 18 | Dead Can Dance | Anastasis | Buy From Amazon |
| 19 | Dead Can Dance | Into the Labyrinth | Buy From Amazon |
| 20 | Moby | Play | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 21 | Tangerine Dream | Rubycon | Buy From Amazon |
| 22 | Moby | Wait for Me | Buy From Amazon |
| 23 | Loreena McKennitt | The Mask and the Mirror | Buy From Amazon |
| 24 | Hammock | Departure Songs | Buy From Amazon |
| 25 | Dead Can Dance | Spirit Chaser | Buy From Amazon |
| 26 | Lorenna McKennitt | The Visit | Buy From Amazon |
| 27 | Dead Can Dance | Toward the Within | Buy From Amazon |
| 28 | George Winston | December | Buy From Amazon |
| 29 | Jonn Serrie | And The Stars Go With You | Buy From Amazon |
| 30 | Patrick O’Hearn | Ancient Dreams | |
| 31 | Beck | Morning Phase | Buy From Amazon |
| 32 | Jeff Pearce | Bleed | Buy From Amazon |
| 33 | Marconi Union | Distance | Buy From Amazon |
| 34 | Air | Moon Safari | Buy From Amazon |
| 35 | Brian Eno | Music for Airports | Buy From Amazon |
| 36 | Erik Wollo | Gateway | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes Buy from CD Baby |
| 37 | Hammock | Raising Your Voice…Trying to Stop an Echo | Buy From Amazon |
| 38 | Ludovico Einaudi | In a Time Lapse | Buy From Amazon |
| 39 | Andreas Wollenweider | Down To The Moon | Buy From Amazon |
| 40 | David Helpling & Jon Jenkins | Found | Buy From Amazon |
| 41 | Agnes Obel | Philharmonics | Buy From Amazon |
| 42 | Moby | Innocents | Buy From Amazon |
| 43 | Sigur Ros | Takk | Buy From Amazon |
| 44 | Brian Eno | Another Day on Earth | Buy From Amazon |
| 45 | Vangelis | Antarctica | Buy From Amazon |
| 46 | Alu | Lobotomy Sessions | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 47 | Tangerine Dream | Stratosfear | Buy From Amazon |
| 48 | Loreena McKennitt | An Ancient Muse | Buy From Amazon |
| 49 | Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays | As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls | Buy From Amazon |
| 50 | Enya | Shepherd Moons | Buy From Amazon |
| 51 | Hammock | Chasing After Shadows…Living with the Ghosts | Buy From Amazon |
| 52 | Ludovico Einaudi | Nightbook | Buy From Amazon |
| 53 | Pat Metheny | One Quiet Night | Buy From Amazon |
| 54 | California Guitar Trio | Echoes | Buy From Amazon |
| 55 | Patrick O’Hearn | Trust | Buy From Amazon |
| 56 | Robert Rich | Seven Veils | Buy From Amazon |
| 57 | David Gilmour | On An Island | Buy From Amazon |
| 58 | Patrick O’Hearn | Transitions | Buy From Amazon |
| 59 | Paul Winter | Canyon | Buy From Amazon |
| 60 | Robert Rich | Nest | Buy From Amazon |
| 61 | Steve Roach | Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces | Buy From Amazon |
| 62 | David Helpling & Jon Jenkins | The Crossing | Buy From Amazon |
| 63 | Mree | Winterwell | Buy From Amazon |
| 64 | Boards Of Canada | The Campfire Head Phase | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 65 | Bruce Kaphan | Slider | Buy From Amazon |
| 66 | David Helpling | Sleeping on the Edge of the World | Buy From Amazon |
| 67 | Adiemus | Songs of Sanctuary | Buy From Amazon |
| 68 | Kitaro | Sacred Journey of Ku Kai Vol. 1 | Buy From Amazon |
| 69 | Lisa Gerrard | The Silver Tree | Buy From Amazon |
| 70 | Robert Rich | Propagation | Buy From Amazon |
| 71 | Marconi Union | Different Colours | Buy From Amazon |
| 72 | Yo-Yo Ma | Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet | Buy From Amazon |
| 73 | Bombay Dub Orchestra | Bombay Dub Orchestra | Buy From Amazon |
| 74 | Afro Celt Sound System | Seed | Buy From Amazon |
| 75 | Bombay Dub Orchestra | 3 Cities | Buy From Amazon |
| 76 | Afro Celt Sound System | Further in Time | Buy From Amazon |
| 77 | Vangelis | 1492: Conquest of Paradise | Buy From Amazon |
| 78 | Happy Rhodes | Many Worlds Are Born Tonight | Buy From Amazon |
| 79 | Angels of Venice | Angels of Venice | Buy From Amazon |
| 80 | Jeff Oster | Surrender | Buy From Amazon |
| 81 | Steve Roach & Robert Rich | Strata | Buy From Amazon |
| 82 | David Arkenstone | Ambient World | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 83 | Eric Wollo | Blue Sky – Red Guitars | Buy From Amazon |
| 84 | Vangelis | Oceanic | Buy From Amazon |
| 85 | Harold Budd & Brian Eno | Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror | Buy From Amazon |
| 86 | Ishq | Orchid | Buy From Amazon |
| 87 | Steve Roach | Arc of Passion | Buy From Amazon |
| 88 | Japancakes | Giving Machines | Buy From Amazon |
| 89 | Jeff Oster | TRUE | Buy From Amazon |
| 90 | Klaus Schulze | Mirage | Buy From Amazon |
| 91 | Lanterna | Highways | Buy From Amazon |
| 92 | Sigur Ros | With a Buzz In Our Ears We Play Endlessly | Buy From Amazon |
| 93 | Patrick O’Hearn | Glaciation | Buy From Amazon |
| 94 | Steve Roach | Magnificent Void | Buy From Amazon |
| 95 | Vangelis | Voices | Buy From Amazon |
| 96 | Arvo Part | Alina | Buy From Amazon |
| 97 | Philip Glass | Koyaanisqatsi | Buy From Amazon |
| 98 | Brian Eno | Ambient #4: On Land | Buy From Amazon |
| 99 | BT | This Binary Universe | Buy From Amazon |
| 100 | Klaus Schulze | X | Buy From Amazon |
| 101 | Agnes Obel | Aventine | Buy From Amazon |
| 102 | George Winston | Forest | Buy From Amazon |
| 103 | Darshan Ambient | Little Things | Buy From Amazon |
| 104 | Bluetech | Sines and Singularities | Buy From Amazon |
| 105 | Carl Weingarten | Life Under Stars | |
| 106 | Darshan Ambient | From Pale Hands to Weary Skies | Buy From Amazon |
| 107 | Vas | In the Garden of Souls | Buy From Amazon |
| 108 | David Arkenstone | Echoes of Light and Shadow | Buy From Amazon |
| 109 | David Darling | Cello Blue | Buy From Amazon |
| 110 | Erik Wollo | Emotional Landscapes | Buy From Amazon |
| 111 | George Winston | Autumn | Buy From Amazon |
| 112 | Jeff Oster | Released | Buy From Amazon |
| 113 | Jon Hassel | Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street | Buy From Amazon |
| 114 | Lanterna | Desert Ocean | Buy From Amazon |
| 115 | Mark Dwane | Angels Aliens and Archetypes | Buy From Amazon |
| 116 | Michael Hedges | Breakfast in the Field | Buy From Amazon |
| 117 | Carbon Based Lifeforms | Interloper | Buy From Amazon |
| 118 | Michael Hedges | Oracle | Buy From Amazon |
| 119 | Michael Stearns | Planetary Unfolding | Buy From Amazon |
| 120 | Moodswings | Horizontal | Buy From Amazon |
| 121 | Nik Bartsch’s Ronin | Holon | Buy From Amazon |
| 122 | Patrick O’Hearn | Indigo | Buy From Amazon |
| 123 | Peter Gabriel | Up | Buy From Amazon |
| 124 | Philip Glass | Naqoyqatsi | Buy From Amazon |
| 125 | Pink Floyd | Dark Side Of The Moon | Buy From Amazon |
| 126 | Tigerforest | The Tides of Day and Night | Buy From Amazon |
| 127 | Tim Story | Shadowplay | Buy From Amazon |
| 128 | Digitonal | Save Your Light For Darker Days | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 129 | Will Ackerman | Returning | Buy From Amazon |
| 130 | David Arkenstone | Myths and Legends | Buy From Amazon |
| 131 | Erik Wollo | Timelines | Buy From Amazon |
| 132 | Alpha Wave Movement | The Edge of Infinity | Buy From Amazon |
| 133 | Philip Glass | Glassworks | Buy From Amazon |
| 134 | Ulirch Schnauss | A Strangely Isolated Place | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 135 | Amethystium | Aphelion | Buy From Amazon |
| 136 | California Guitar Trio | Andromeda | Buy From Amazon |
| 137 | Dead Can Dance | 1981-1998 | Buy From Amazon |
| 138 | Tycho | Dive | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 139 | Mike Oldfield | Songs of Distant Earth | Buy From Amazon |
| 140 | Enya | The Memory of Trees | Buy From Amazon |
| 141 | Michael Hedges | Live on the Double Planet | Buy From Amazon |
| 142 | Frankie Rose | Interstellar | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 143 | George Winston | Winter Into Spring | Buy From Amazon |
| 144 | Jan Garbarek | In Praise of Dreams | Buy From Amazon |
| 145 | Japancakes | Loveless | Buy From Amazon |
| 146 | Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy | Frio Suite | Buy From Amazon |
| 147 | Johann Johannsson | Fordlandia | Buy From Amazon |
| 148 | Jonn Serrie | Tingri | Buy From Amazon |
| 149 | Kitaro | Silk Road | Buy From Amazon |
| 150 | Lana Del Rey | Ultraviolence | Buy From Amazon |
| 151 | Mary Fahl | Love and Gravity | Buy From Amazon |
| 152 | Low Roar | Low Roar | Buy From Amazon |
| 153 | Patrick O’Hearn | Eldorado | |
| 154 | Richard Leo Johnson | Legend of Vernon McAlister | Buy From Amazon |
| 155 | Robert Rich | Numena | Buy From Amazon |
| 156 | Sigur Ros | Agaetis Byrjun | Buy From Amazon |
| 157 | Steve Roach | The Delicate Forever | Buy From Amazon |
| 158 | Tangerine Dream | Ricochet | Buy From Amazon |
| 159 | Todd Boston | Touched by the Sun | Buy From Amazon Buy from CD Baby |
| 160 | Tosca | No Hassle | Buy From Amazon |
| 161 | Tycho | Awake | Buy From Amazon |
| 162 | Ulrich Schnauss | A Long Way To Fall | Buy From Amazon |
| 163 | Vangelis | Albedo 0.39 | Buy From Amazon |
| 164 | Will Ackerman | Sound of Wind Driven Rain | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 165 | Steve Roach & Robert Rich | Soma | Buy From Amazon |
| 166 | William Orbit | Strange Cargo 5 | |
| 167 | Winterlight | Hope Dies Last | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 168 | Andreas Vollenweider | Dancing With The Lion | Buy From Amazon |
| 169 | Yoed Nir | The Next Dream | Buy From Amazon |
| 170 | Steve Roach | Sigh Of Ages | Buy From Amazon |
| 171 | Kitaro | Symphony: Live in Istanbul | Buy From Amazon |
| 172 | Afro Celt Sound System | Release | Buy From Amazon |
| 173 | Jah Wobble & Marconi Union | Anomic | Buy From Amazon |
| 174 | Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo | ec12 | Buy From Amazon |
| 175 | Michael Hedges | Taproot | Buy From Amazon |
| 176 | Afro Celt Sound System | Anatomic | Buy From Amazon |
| 177 | Michael Stearns | Chronos | |
| 178 | Massive Attack | Mezzanine | Buy From Amazon |
| 179 | Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 | Buy From Amazon |
| 180 | Ashra | New Age of Earth | Buy From Amazon |
| 181 | Banco de Gaia | 10 years | Buy From Amazon |
| 182 | Bang On A Can | Music For Airports | Buy From Amazon |
| 183 | California Guitar Trio | White Water | Buy From Amazon |
| 184 | Bluetech | Cosmic Dubs | Buy From Amazon |
| 185 | Brian Eno | Music for Films | Buy From Amazon |
| 186 | Bryan Carrigan | Inspired | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 187 | Tommy Emmanuel | The Mystery | Buy From Amazon |
| 188 | California Guitar Trio | Pathways | Buy From Amazon |
| 189 | Ceiri Torjussen | Test | Buy From Amazon |
| 190 | Darshan Ambient | Dream in Blue | Buy From Amazon |
| 191 | Coyote Oldman | House Made of Dawn | Buy From Amazon |
| 192 | Dadawa | Sister Drum | Buy From Amazon |
| 193 | Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | Buy From Amazon |
| 194 | Darshan Ambient | Songs from the Deep Field | Buy From Amazon |
| 195 | David Arkenstone | Valley in the Clouds | Buy From Amazon |
| 196 | Mark Dwane | 2012 | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 197 | David Arkenstone | Spirit Wind | Buy From Amazon |
| 198 | David Darling | Prayer for Compassion | Buy From Amazon |
| 199 | David Helpling | Between Green and Blue | Buy From Amazon |
| 200 | David Sylvian | Gone to Earth | Buy From Amazon |
| 201 | David Sylvian | Secrets of The Beehive | Buy From Amazon |
| 202 | Dead Can Dance | A Passage in Time | Buy From Amazon |
| 203 | Deuter | Land of Enchantment | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 204 | Divine Matrix | Invisible Landscapes | Buy From Amazon |
| 205 | Enya | Paint the Sky With Stars | |
| 206 | Eric Tingstad | Badlands | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 207 | Mark Dwane | Anomalies | Buy From Amazon |
| 208 | Erothyme | Circadia | |
| 209 | Fernwood | Almeria | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes Buy from CD Baby |
| 210 | Tangerine Dream | Force Majeure | Buy From Amazon |
| 211 | Fripp and Eno | Evening Star | Buy From Amazon |
| 212 | General Fuzz | Soulful Filling | Buy From Amazon |
| 213 | George Winston | Night Divides the Day | Buy From Amazon |
| 214 | Hammock | Oblivion Hymns | Buy From Amazon |
| 215 | Marconi Union | A Lost Connection | Buy From Amazon |
| 216 | Happy Rhodes | The Keep | Buy From Amazon |
| 217 | Rhian Sheehan | Stories from Elsewhere | Buy From Amazon |
| 218 | Ian Boddy | Liverdelphia | Buy From Amazon |
| 219 | George Winston | Summer | Buy From Amazon |
| 220 | Jalan Jalan | Bali | Buy From Amazon |
| 221 | Mark Dwane | Other Worlds | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes Buy from CD Baby |
| 222 | Jami Sieber | Timeless | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 223 | Jeff Pearce | with evening above | Buy From Amazon |
| 224 | John Luttrell | The Dream Exchange | Buy From Amazon Buy from CD Baby |
| 225 | Jon Hopkins | Insides | Buy From Amazon |
| 226 | Jon Jenkins | Flow | Buy From Amazon |
| 227 | Kaki King | …Until We Felt Red | Buy From Amazon |
| 228 | Kate Bush | 50 Words For Snow | Buy From Amazon |
| 229 | King Crimson | In The Court Of The Crimson King | Buy From Amazon |
| 230 | Michael Brook | Rock Paper Scissors | Buy From Amazon |
| 231 | Kitaro | Light Of The Spirit | Buy From Amazon |
| 232 | Klaus Schulze | Timewind | Buy From Amazon |
| 233 | Lia Ices | Ices | Buy From Amazon |
| 234 | Liz Story | Unaccountable Effect | |
| 235 | Marisa Nadler | July | Buy From Amazon |
| 236 | Mark Isham | Tibet | Buy From Amazon |
| 237 | Ottmar Liebert | Nouveau Flamenco | Buy From Amazon |
| 238 | Mark Preston | Nature & Design | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes |
| 239 | Melorman | Waves | Buy From Amazon |
| 240 | Michael Brook | Bell Curve | Buy From Amazon |
| 241 | Nakai/Eaton/Clipman | Dancing into Silence | Buy From Amazon |
| 242 | Moby | Destroyed | Buy From Amazon |
| 243 | Michael Stearns | Encounter | Buy From Amazon |
| 244 | William Orbit | Hello Waveforms | Buy From Amazon |
| 245 | California Guitar Trio | Masterworks | Buy From Amazon Buy From iTunes Buy from CD Baby |
| 246 | Tim Story | Beguiled | Buy From Amazon |
| 247 | Niyaz | Sumud | Buy From Amazon |
| 248 | Nightnoise | A Different Shore | |
| 249 | Paul Winter | Prayer for Wild things | Buy From Amazon |
| 250 | Pink Floyd | Meddle | Buy From Amazon |
Great list — I know many of these, but look forward to exploring the rest.
Yanni should have on this. His albums in the 1980’s Out Of Silence and Keys To Imagination and subsequent massive success brought worldwide attention to instrumental music unlike any of the above names.
Was looking for Helios
Interesting list, that at least 25% of the Albums I own. As a long time subscriber to Echoes, I have found my musical home.
Awesome list! I created a Spotify list with all the albums I was able to found. Total 2238 songs, 183 hours.
http://open.spotify.com/user/ssinkha/playlist/06KckgjSUXOhnRy27Hd48Y
Lana Del Ray? What in the world?
Absolutely. Echoes CD of the Month last August. https://echoes.org/2014/07/31/lana-del-reys-ultraviolence-echoes-cd-of-the-month/