Atomic Skunk Leads the Echoes Top 25 for August. Alchemy by Atomic Skunk wafted to the top of our Echoes Top 25, no surprise since it was our CD of the Month. You can read a review and hear tracks from this entrancing album of electronica exotica. August was a bit of an anomaly in…
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Best of Echoes 2011 So Far.
Skuli Severrison, Agnes Obel and Moby Top Echoes Mid-Year List We usually wait until the end of the year for these lists but why not take stock as we pass the half-way mark of 2011. Here’s our25 favorite Echoes CDs from the first 6 months of 2011. Skuli Sverrisson – Seria II (click for review…
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Winterlight Melts Echoes June Top 25
Winterlight’s Hope Dies Last leads Echoes Top 25 for June The sun is shining and it’s in the 90s in the land of Echoes, but Winterlight didn’t melt under the heat as it leads the Echoes Top 25 this month. His album, Hope Dies Last was the Echoes CD of the Month for June. That…
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Moby Destroys Echoes Top 25for May.
Moby’s Destroyed Tops Echoes Top 25 for May No surprise that Moby’s Destroyed was #1 on the Echoes Top 25 for May. It was the Echoes CD of the Month. Electronic music dominates the Top 10 with a surprise at #2, Divine Matrix’s Invisible Landscape leaping in. This album of melodic glitch-flecked music came out…
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Destroyed by Moby: Echoes May CD of the Month.
Moby’s Destroyed is the Echoes May CD of the Month ***Hear interview with Moby tonight & tomorrow night on Echoes, June 13 & 14 and this weekend, June 18 & 20*** With Destroyed and his previous CD, Wait for Me, Moby has moved from an iconic electronic trendsetter to a singer-songwriter exploring personal stories with…
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Electric Violin Ragas Bow at the Top of Echoes
Vicki Richards’ She Vanishes Appears at the Head of Echoes Top 25 for April. The Echoes Top 25 for April is up and as usual, our CD of the Month’s tops the list and justifiably so. Vicki Richards’ She Vanishes is an impressive album that brings the early fusion sound into a new stage. In…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…