Category: Best Of

25 Essential Echoes CDs: The Best of 2012

 25 Esssential Echoes CDs for 2012 There are always three year end lists at Echoes.  The first is my personal Top Ten which embraces all the music I listen to, not must what I play on Echoes (John Diliberto’s Top Ten Albums of 2012 and John Diliberto’s Top 10 Songs for 2012).  Then comes the…

Echoes Top 25 for December.

It’s the last monthly Top 25 for 2012 Hammock heads up the list, following on their #2 appearance in the Best of Echoes 2012 listener poll, followed by the #1 CD on that list, Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis.   It was a very electronic month.  In fact, you have to go down to #23 and Jeff…

Best of Echoes 2012-Listener Poll Results.

Hear The Best of Echoes 2012 Rewind TONIGHT! See Spotify Playlist Below How much of a runaway was Dead Can Dance’s win in the Best of Echoes 2012 Poll?  They had almost twice as many votes as the next artist, Hammock.  But after that, it’s pretty tight. But what does the list say musically?  It’s…

Echoes November Top 25 – Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy WaterSky.

Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Echoes CD of the Month, WaterSky, Heads Up Echoes Top 25. Ambient and Ambient-tinged rock dominate Echoes Top 25 for December.  Just in the Top 10, you’ve got a diversity of ambient sounds that reveals just how broad and embracing this genre can be.  It’s not a stream.  It’s an…

Top Ten Songs for 2012.

John Diliberto’s Top Ten Songs for 2012 TOP TEN SONGS 1 Geigertek “Underpass” 2 The Raveonettes – “Till the End” 3 Sharon Van Etten – “Serpents” 4 Liftoff – “Summer Shone” 5 Frankie Rose “Moon In My Mind” 6 Shel – “Paint My Life” 7  Blue Foundation – “Lost” 8 Norah Jones – “4 Broken…

Best of Echoes 2012 Poll Is Open.

Now that the Presidential Election is over, vote in a poll where you can really have an impact. We’ve launched the Best of Echoes 2012 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…

Post-Rock Dominates Echoes Top 25 for October.

Hans Christian & Harry Manx’s You Are the Music of My Silence leads the Echoes Top 25 for October.  Their dreamy Indian evocations, the Echoes CD of the Month for October, floats like a seagull above a roiling ocean of post & alt-rock bands in the Top Ten. Tycho, All India Radio, Balmorhea, Hammock, The…

Dead Can Dance Rise to Echoes Top 25 for September.

Dead Can Dance resurrects themselves to the top of the the Echoes Top 25 for September with their album, Anastasis.   Anastasis means resurrection and it was the Echoes CD of the Month for September.  Sounds from the Ground returns with a surprising showing at number two with their album,  Widerworld and a couple of albums…

Summer Ends on Ambient Note: Echoes Top 25 for August.

Four recent CD of the month selections are in the Top Ten of the Echoes Top 25 for August, including our number one CD, Sebastian Plano’s The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts, an album that is sure to be in our Top 25 year end list. ECHOES TOP 25 FOR AUGUST Sebastian Plano – The Arrhythmical…

Echoes Top 25 for July: Marconi Calling.

ECHOES TOP 25 FOR JULY MARCONI UNION TRANSMITS TO THE TOP Marconi Union – Different Colours (Just Music) Icebreaker – Apollo (Cantaloupe) Todd Boston – Touched by the Sun (Gita Records) Abalye Cissoko and Volker Goetze – Amanke Dionti (Motema) Raygun Ballet – World That Wasn’t (Raygun Ballet) Wall Matthews – The Dreaming Light (Wall Matthews)…