25 Essential CDs to take into the second half of the year. [Click on the artist link and it will take you to a podcast interview. Click on the album links and you’ll go to either a review with tracks or a link to purchase.] According to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar, the world…
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World Fusion & Chamber Pop in Echoes Top 25
Coyote Jump Leads Echoes Top 25 for May The Echoes Top 25 for May is an interesting mix of old and new. A lot of old favorites like Thomas Newman, Jef Stott, Clara Ponty, David Michael, Niyaz, and Carl Weingarten return. And world fusion seems to have made a return led by Coyote Jump’s CD…
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Stellar Space and Western Space in Echoes Top 25.
Thierry David’s Stellar Connection Leads Echoes Top 25 for April. But right behind it is Eric Tingstad’s Badlands, his second foray into ambient Americana. That’s the kind of contrast you’ll find in the Echoes Top 25 for April, which this month includes a collaboration in cathedral reverb between Eraldo Bernocchi, Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd;…
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Air Rises to Top of Echoes Top 25
Le Voyage Dans La Lune Lands in the Echoes Top 25 It was a trippy month in March in more ways than one, but none more so than Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune, their retro-psychedelic electronica soundtrack for the 1902 French silent film that was also the focal point of the movie Hugo. It…
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A Song for Echoes
A lot of people have recorded albums and songs called Echoes, and I sometimes thank them for naming their recording after the show. That actually hasn’t been their intent, except for Tim Farrell’s “Four Echoes” (from his album, Skydancer) an inside joke when I told him that any untitled song played live on the show…
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Slack-Key & Tapping Guitar Lead Echoes Top 25
Acoustic Guitars Dominate Echoes February Soundscape It’s been an electronic year so far, but for February, an acoustic guitar album by Pino Forastiere and a soundtrack dominated by Hawaiian Slack-Key guitar were all over Echoes Top 25 for February . Forastiere’s From 1-8 was the Echoes CD of the Month for February and it remains…
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Echoes Top 25 for January
Tino Izzo’s Morning Scapes Heads Up the Echoes Top 25 CDs for January. Tino Izzo’s Morning Scapes was an Echoes Top 25 CD even before it became the Echoes CD of the Month (read review and hear trax). It leads our January list as Echoes returned to a more normal mode after December’s holiday programming. …
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Top 25 CDs for December
DARSHAN AMBIENT’S DREAM IN BLUE Leads December Top 25 CDs on Echoes. It was our December CD of the Month so it’s no surprise that Darshan Ambient’s Dream in Blue topped our Echoes Top 25 for the month. You can read a review and hear tracks here. The first four releases on the list all…
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John Diliberto’s Best of Sleepy Hollow 2011.
I’ve made my own Best of List, an Echoes Best of List, the Echoes Listener Poll and now, here’s the Best of Sleepy Hollow 2011. For those of you who don’t know, Sleepy Hollow is the long-lived weekend morning music show on WXPN in Philadelphia. (It says 30 years on the website but it’s closer…
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Best Echoes CDs of 2011.
The Best of Echoes 2011 Listener Poll Here are the results from our Listener Poll for the Best of Echoes 2011. Saturday and Sunday Echoes listeners get to hear the Best of Echoes Echoes 12/17 & 18/2011. Links below will take you to reviews of these albums with full track samples or to Amazon. THE…