Moby’s not that innocent, but Innocents leads the Echoes Top 25 for November. Haven’t voted in the Best of Echoes 2013 Poll yet? You could do worse than any 10 CDs from November’s Top 25. Of course, Moby’s CD of the Month, Innocents leads the way, and just 3 away from the top is December’s…
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Best of Echoes 2013 Poll Opens
Best of Echoes 2013 Poll Is Open. Vote in a poll where you can really have an impact. We’ve launched the Best of Echoes 2013 Poll. You can win some great prizes including, One Year Membership to the Echoes CD of the Month Club A One Year Subscription to Echoes On-Line so you can hear Echoes…
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Akara Enters the World of Echoes Top 25 for October
The band who creates music from The World Beyond, tops the world of the Echoes Top 25 for October. Akara’s The World Beyond was the Echoes CD of the Month and I’m increasingly impressed by the sophistication and meticulous detail of this CD, all the while edited to some throbbing grooves. I would love to…
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Echoes September Top 25
Darshan Ambient Leads Echoes Top 25 for September Little Things does big things on Echoes Top 25 as Darshan Ambient’s CD of the Month rises to the head of the pack in September. Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian aren’t far behind with the Lamentation of Swans, an album that is still revealing itself after…
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Greatest Songs of the 21st Century… So Far: An Idiosyncratic List.
The thirteenth year of the 21st century doesn’t seem to be the right time to look back on the best of the millennium. Those lists usually come on the decade and quarter century marks. But I was asked to compile another Top Ten list for Echoes affiliate, WXPN in Philadelphia. This time, the impossible assignment…
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M & M’s Lead Echoes Top 25 for August
Ambient Music from Greece and Dreampop from North Jersey Melorman, Mree and Marconi Union hold the one , two and three positions for most played albums in August on Echoes. Melorman’s Waves was the Echoes August CD of the Month. Mree’s Winterwell is the impressive sophomore album from the 19-year old Taiwanese-Bulgarian-American singer from northern…
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Echoes Top 25 for July 2013.
Queens of the Stone Age, reinvented, Leads Echoes Top 25 … Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age made Number One on the Billboard Top 200, but Olivier Libaux‘s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age was Number One on Echoes. Libaux’s UNQOTSA , in which he creates intimate, melancholic versions of tunes from this…
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Echoes Top 25-Rachel Zeffira Shines in June.
Echoes Top 25 for June features Dream-Pop, Ambient Chamber Music and Space Music. The Echoes Top 25 is led by singer-songwriter Rachel Zeffira whose album, The Deserters was the Echoes CD of the Month. This chamber pop singer is joined by several other vocal ensembles in the Top 25 including Karl Hyde, Olivier Libaux, Seven Saturdays…
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Best of Echoes 2013…So Far.
Ambient Chamber Music leads The Best of Echoes 2013 ….So Far At the halfway point of the year, I look back on some of the albums that rise above the crowd. And this year it’s been harder than most to narrow it down to the 25 CDs you’ll see below, let alone picking a number…
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Echoes Top 25 for May
Music boxes lead the Echoes Top 25 for May in the form of Rhian Sheehan’s Stories from Elsewhere, his brilliant CD of ambient chamber music that uses music boxes as one of it’s sonic motifs. It was the Echoes CD of the Month for May. You can read a review and hear tracks from it…