Dreams and More in Echoes Top 25 for January.
The first month of the new year begins strongly with a Top Five that includes 3 CDs of the Month. At the top is this month’s pick, Sherry Finzer’s haunting Sanctuary III: Beyond the Dream. There’s last month’s pick, Wax Tailor’s propulsive chanson and Hollywood sound collage, Phonovision Symphonic Orchestra and there is next months pick, the backwoods, global ambiance of Arcadia by Fernwood. We also note at #12, Tangerine Dream’s Mala Kunia, the last album released during the life of Edgar Froese who ricocheted off the planet on January 20.
ECHOES TOP 25 FOR January 2015
- Sherry Finzer – Sanctuary III: Beyond the Dream (Heart Dance Records)
- Love Inks – Exi (Republic of Music)
- Wax Tailor – Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra (Le Plan)
- Pink Floyd- The Endless River (Columbia)
- Fernwood – Arcadia (Whitehorse One)
- Orenda Fink – Blue Dream (Saddle Creek)
Submotion Orchestra – Alium (Counter Records) - Erik Scott – Spirits (Erik Scott)
- Chad Lawson – The Chopin Variations (Hillset)
- Hundred Waters – The Moon Rang Like a Bell
- 7 and 5 – Themes for a Grey Day (Nix Records)
- Tangerine Dream – Mala Kunia
- Yael Meyer – Warrior Heart (Kli Records)
- A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos (Kranky)
- Brian Eno – My Squelchy Life (All Saints Records)
Sounds from the Ground – 20 Years of the Best Sounds from the Ground (Waveform) - Carmen Rizzo – Illumanado (Electrofone Music)
- Jennie Abrahamson – Gemini Gemini (Trickser Tonträger)
- Gareth Dickson – Invisible String (Sleeping Man Records)
- Lex Nichols – The Path Less Traveled (Sand Hill Records)
- Neil Tatar and David Darling – Where Did the Time Go ( Neil Tatar and David Darling)
- Vic Hennegan – Live at The Gathering Philadelphia (Vic Hennegan)
- Mary Fahl – Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House
- Barbara Higbie – Scenes from Life (Barbara Higbie)
- Olafur Arnalds – Broadchurch -OST (Mercury Classics)