At the half-way point of the year, we pick the albums that excited us the most thus far in 2016. Miranda Lee Richard’s “Echoes of the Dreamtime” tops the list of 25, followed by All India Radio, Hammock, Radiohead and more.
Hammock’s Echoes CD of the Month, “Everything and Nothing” leads the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Haroula Rose’s “Here the Blue River,” Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise” and Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool.” See the complete list.
The Echoes Top 25 for April includes the the CD of the Month for April by All India Radio, the March CD of the Month by by Miranda Lee Richards and the debut of The Great American Canyon Band.
The Echoes Top 25 for March includes the CD of the Month by Miranda Lee Richards, Vic Hennegan’s vocal turn on “Space & Shadows,” guitar slinger Tommy Emmanuel and our April CD of the Month, All India Radios “The Slow Light.”
The Echoes Top 25 for February includes the CD of the Month by The American Dollar, along with new releases by John Heart Jackie, Ane Brun and Miranda Lee Richards.
The Echoes Top 25 for January includes the CD of the Month by Contact, as well as last month’s pick, Enya, along with new releases by Tuxedomoon, Ane Brun and Tranceology.
Echoes Top 25 for December includes CD of the Month from Enya and seasonal albums, Smoke Fairies’ Wild WInter and Bryan Carrigan’s Fall Into Winter
Echoes listeners have voted for their favorite albums of 2015. See the results in The Best of Echoes 2015 Listener Poll
Echoes host John Diliberto has picked his Top 25 albums of 2015. They range from dream pop to sequencer dervishes to ambient chamber music to fusion and beyond.
It’s another amazing month of music at Echoes with Kevin Keller’s magnificent CD of the Month, La Strada, leading the Echoes Top 25 for November. But check out some of the others like the #2 album, a wonderful collection of melodic electronics called Autumn Time Volume 3.