Category: Best Of

Icelandic Chamber Music Heads Echoes Top 25

Skuli Sverrisson’s Lush Ambiences Lead Echoes Top 25 for March. Skuli Sverrisson’s Seria II was our Echoes CD of the Month in March and it leads the Echoes Top 25 for March, bringing in a lot of other ambient chamber music on its coattails including Meg Bowles’ A Quiet Light, Dustin O’Halloran’s Lumiere and Olafur…

Echoes Top 25 for February

David Arkenstone’s Ambient World tops the Echoes Charts. It’s no surprise that David Arkenstone’s February CD of the Month, Ambient World leads the Echoes Top 25 for February.    (Read review and hear complete tracks.) David Arkenstone will be featured with an Echoes interview on Monday, March 21. That heads a list that goes from ambient…

Echoes Top 25 for January

Agnes Obel’s Philharmonics Heads Echoes Top 25 for January Ambient chamber music is big on January’s Top 25.  Agnes Obel leads it with her delicately serene and haunting debut, Philharmonics, which sets her voice in a chamber bed of piano and cello.  I’m sure this album will be in my Top 5 at the end…

Echoes Top 25 for December-Christmas is Still Here!

Christmas Music Tops the Tree of the Echoes Top 25 for December December is always a strange time for the Echoes Top 25.  Seasonal programming and Best of Year shows skew the playlists towards Christmas sounds and older materiel.  But new music does get played nevertheless.  Heading up our December list, it’s no surprise to…

The Best of Echoes 2010 Listener Poll.

Here it is, the Best of Echoes 2010 Listener Poll.  These are albums you thought were the best Echoes  CDs this past year. #1: Brian Eno Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea  (Warp Records) Hammock Chasing After Shadows…Living with the Ghosts (Hammock Music) Enigma Platinum Collection  (EMI/Virgin) Erik Wollo Gateway  (Projekt) Carbon Based…

25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2010.

ECHOES PICKS THEIR TOP 25 FOR 2010 The Echoes 2010 Listener Poll is in full swing, but this is what we think was the best  music played on Echoes in 2010, compiled by the Echoes staff of John Diliberto, Kimberly Haas and Jeff Towne.   Twelve  of them were Echoes CD of the Month selections in…

The Best of Echoes 2010 & Diliberto’s Best

The Best of Echoes 2010 Poll is LIVE! We’ve plugged in the Best of Echoes 2010 Poll.  It’s been an interesting year  for music and we’d like to know what put a buzz in your ears from the Echoes soundscape.   You can pick your five fave Echoes albums and you ‘ll be entered a drawing…

Echoes September Top 25: Plugged In

It’s a plugged in Echoes Top 25 for September. Eight of the Top 10 are electronic albums or electronically enhanced like Matthew Schoening’s Elements and Zoe Keating’s Into the Trees, both looping cello CDs by the way. But acoustic music still has an impact, with Portico Quartet.. oops!  They are mostly acoustic, but they use…