Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson’s Frio Suite Tops Echoes Top 25 for October. October was a strange month for Echoes. We spent two weeks running down the listeners 200 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes. Great shows. Not a lot of current music, but we made up for it by playing almost exclusively new music…
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Echoes Top 25 for September: Fernwood Heads List
Fernwood tops the Echoes Top 25 for September with their CD of the Month, Sangita September was another strong month for new music on Echoes, led by the second album from Fernwood, Sangita. I wrote about this group and their global Americana chamber music in my September CD of the Month review. Interestingly, the top…
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Top 20 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes: John’s Picks
We asked listeners to pick their Top 10 CDs which will be tabulated into a list of 200 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes. The only requirements were they had to have been played on Echoes, but could have been released at any time. I’ve modified those rules for my list, limiting myself to the…
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20 Icons of Echoes: John’s Picks
We’ve been asking you to submit your 20 Icons and Top 10 Echoes CDs for our 20th Anniversary. If you haven’t yet, go to The Echoes 20th Anniversary Listener Poll and enter for you chance to win an iPod Touch. Here’s my 2o Icons. JOHN DILIBERTO’S 20 ICONS OF ECHOES The Icons are always difficult.…
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Echoes Top 25 for July: Moby Tops
As is typical, our CD of the Month tops the Echoes Top 25 for July with Moby’s entrancing, Wait for Me. Look for the artist to bring this music to the concert stage in the Fall. Tour Information here. But just beneath Moby is one of the prettier ambient chamber music albums of the year,…
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Echoes Top 25 for May: Leo Abrahams Tops List
Leo Abrahams‘ The Grape and the Grain tops Echoes Top 25 for May. That’s no surprise since it was our Echoes CD of the Month. There’s lots of new electronic music including the latest albums from Bluetech, Mark Dwane, Jon Hopkins and the son of one of the original space music pioneers, Jerome Froese, who’s…
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Echoes March Top 25: David Darling Tops
David Darling Tops Echoes Top 25 for March This year is already shaping up to be a diverse and unusual one with fantastic, innovative music coming from unlikely sources. David Darling’s Prayer for Compassion topping the list, is of course, no surprise. He was our Echoes CD of the Month for March and he’s been…
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Echoes Top 25 for February: Erik Scott Tops List
Erik Scott‘s ambient bass album, Other Planets, tops Echoes Top 25 List for February. It was our February CD of the Month and if you happened to miss the many times we played it, you can catch up with our review. The Top 25 this month proves to be a more balanced affair than recent…
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Echoes Top 25 for January ’09: Kaya Project Tops
Kaya Project Tops our January Top 25. Kaya Project makes it’s way to the top, no surprise since it was our Echoes CD of the Month for January. Kaya Project’s Seb Taylor actually gets a double hit since his Hibernation album, Some Things Never Change, also made the list. But Kaya Project points to a…
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Echoes Top 25 for December
We’re a little late, but here’s the Echoes Top 25 for this past December. Perhaps surprisingly, only one seasonal title on there, Loreena McKennitt’s A Midwinter Night’s Dream, although a couple of our Sonic Seasonings performers, including Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter and Sumner McKane ranked high. New additions include some great electronica albums by Motionfield,…