Hiroki Okano is a Japanese musician creating a unique and meditative world fusion, taking tradition and bringing it into the 21st century on his December CD of the Month, Return to the Soul.
Todd Boston is a post-Windham Hill guitarist with a global mind. He creates a one-man world music ensemble for his third Echoes CD of the Month, “One”. Read a review here.
Fashion runway soundtrack artist Thomas Roussel releases debut as Prequel, The Future Comes Before. This 21st century symphony is Echoes October CD of the Month.
Flutist Suzanne Teng returns with Mystic Journey for their first album in 13 years, a lush and seductive journey into world fusion. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for September.
German duo and Tangerine Dream members Ulrich Schnauss & Thorsten Quaeschning create a state-of-the-art sequencer excursion called “Synthwaves.” It’s the Echoes August CD of the Month.
Chamber Pop trio London Grammar’s “Truth Is a Beautiful Thing” is an Echoes CD of the Month of striking maturity, luxurious depth and more evidence of Hannah Reid as one of our great singers.
The band Wilsen, fronted by namesake Tamsin Wilson has created an album of deep psychological depths and equally deep ambient spaces. It’s Echoes June CD of the Month.
Swedish electronic musicians Johann Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren take a trip to the Russian-Finish border and come back with an album of evocative tone poems, We Never Came to the White Sea.
Written by John Diliberto on April 3, 2017 It’s pretty rare that an artist could take three albums spanning 40 years, put them together, and have them sound like a coherent whole, as if it was the plan all along for them to sit together as a single epic work. But French electronic artist Jean-Michel…
Daniel Voth is a two-handed tapping finger-style wizard but with a composer’s sense of arrangement and melody. His album, Trancendance is the Echoes March CD of the Month.