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Echoes Top 25 for November 2014

Philip Selway - Weatherhouse

Philip Selway & Wax Tailor Lead Echoes November Top 25ECHOES TOP 25 FOR NOVEMBER 2014 Philip Selway – Weatherhouse (Sony Music Entertainment) Wax Tailor – Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra (Le Plan)  Tim Farrell – Cascadia (Tim Farrell)  Anja Lechner & Francois Couturier – Moderato Cantabile (ECM New Series)  Orenda Fink – Blue Dream (Saddle Creek)  Chad Lawson – The Chopin Variations (Hillset)  Bonobo – The North Borders…

250 Albums for 25 Years of Echoes

Top 250 Albums

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…

Echoes Top 25 for October 2014

Echoes Top 25 for October, 2014Does it get any more eclectic than this? 70s space rockers from Germany, minimalist dream-poppers from Austin; a DJ turned electro-folky from England, ambient chamber music from America, and new classical chamber music from Europe, acoustic guitarist from Doylestown, an electro-lounge player self-releasing his music and a drummer from one…

25 Icons of Echoes

Echoes Listeners Pick 25 Icons of EchoesAs we celebrate 25 Years of Echoes, listeners voted for their favorite Echoes Artists. Herewith, 25 ICONS OF ECHOES Hear them all tonight on Echoes. 1   Steve Roach 2   Brian Eno 3   Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard 4   Robert Rich 5   Tangerine Dream 6   Patrick O’Hearn 7   Loreena McKennitt 8  …

Echoes Top 25 for September 2014

Tigerforest - The Tides of Day and Night

Echoes Top 25 for September, 2014This is our 300th Top 25 list.  12 months x 25 years of Echoes Progressive electronics make it to the head of the Echoes Top 25 for September with Tigerforest’s The Tides of Day and Night , the Echoes CD of the Month for September. Newcomers to the list include…

Echoes Top 25 for August 2014

Lana Del Rey

She was number one on Billboard in June and now she’s Number One at Echoes. Lana Del Rey’s “Ultraviolence” leads our Top 25 for August.The singer has turned in a fragile and alluring album that taps into the darker side of Echoes sonically and thematically. It was the CD of the Month in August and…

Echoes Top 25 for July 2014

Yoed Nir - The Next Dream

There’s some great CDs in the Echoes Top 25 for July. Leading the way is Yoed Nir’s CD of the Month, The Next Dream. He’s one of two cello albums to make the list. The other is first timer Maya Beiser with her album of cello covers, Uncovered.

The Best of Echoes 2014 …So Far

We Pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the Halfway Point. Hear them tonight on Echoes. See A Spotify Playlist Below It seems like it’s been such a long year, and it’s only half over.  That’s what usually what happens when so much good music has come out. There are albums I feel…

Echoes Top 25 for June 2014

Carl Weingarten - Life Under Stars

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…