It was a wild year for music on Echoes and we’ve sorted through the hundreds of new music releases to pick the Top 25 albums for 2018. There are familiar veteran acts and some exciting newcomers.
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In the Echoes Podcast, CloZee talks about a sound that she has called World Bass. She samples global instruments and motifs and puts them in a blender of beats.
New Age Grammy Award winner Peter Kater plays a set of solo piano improvisations in the mode of his Grammy winning album, Dancing on Water, live on Echoes
Hammock have forged a distinctive sound for the 21st century, merging ambient guitars with string orchestrations Their album, Universalis is the Echoes CD of the Month for December.
The Echoes Top 25 for November 2018 features the Dead Can Dance CD of the Month “Dionysus” at the top, followed by White Sun, Lena Natalia, Mark Dwane, William Fitzsimmons and 20 more.
Singer Rachel Eckroth started out as something of a jazz musician, but on her new album, When It Falls, she taps a more art rock side of things for these of Death, uncertainty, love, hope.
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In the Echoes Podcast, Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry talks about their conceptual album, Dionysus, a wedding of Greek mythology, tribal culture and global ritual sounds.
Olivia Chaney is an English singer who is expanding the sound of folk music. We’ll hear live versions of songs from her latest solo album, Shelter.
We unfold the music of Michelle Qureshi. She’s a classically trained guitarist but she’s gone far beyond that in her ambient landscapes that mix multiple instruments and electronics.
An interview with FLOW, an acronym for pianist Fiona Joy, guitarist Lawrence Blatt, trumpeter Jeff Oster and Windham Hill Records founder and guitarist Will Ackerman.
