Darshan Ambient’s Little Things – The Echoes CD of the Month for September Hear it featured Labor Day Evening on Echoes In the days before YouTube, iTunes and most other on-line music sources, Darshan Ambient was a minor star at mp3.com, the renowned legal music download site. He released his music there and garnered nearly…
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Surf The Wave’s of Melorman’s CD of the Month
Hear A Podcast Review of Melorman’s Waves The Echoes CD of the Month for August If you thought the only electronic-based music coming out of Greece was from Yanni and Vangelis, then you haven’t been keeping up on a wave of electronic artists who are more plugged in to Boards of Canada’s textural melancholy than…
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Melorman CD of the Month
If you thought the only electronic-based music coming out of Greece was from Yanni and Vangelis, then you haven’t been keeping up on a wave of electronic artists who are more plugged in to Boards of Canada’s textural melancholy than Yanni’s grandiose orchestrations. Melorman is one of those artists. That’s the parody-ready moniker of Antonis…
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Rachel Zeffira – The Deserters – Echoes CD of the Month
Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters Echoes June CD of the Month Hear Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters tonight on Echoes. She turns her opera-trained soprano into a caressing hush; mixes circus organ with a song about suicide; and uses oboe arrangements that sound like the The Left Banke’s “Pretty Ballerina.” That’s only part of the allure in…
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Rhian Sheehan’s Ambient Music Box Symphony.
Rhian Sheehan’s Stories from Elsewhere Echoes May CD of the Month Hear Rhian Sheehan’s Stories from Elsewhere featured on Monday May 6 In a music style built on translucent hues, there are many shades of ambient chamber music. There’s Harold Budd’s minimal austerity and Ludovico Einaudi’s classical melodicism. Ólafur Arnalds trades in glitchy, haunted moods…
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Ólafur Arnalds’ Winter Chill
ÓLAFUR ARNALDS’ FOR NOW I AM WINTER ECHOES APRIL CD OF THE MONTH Hear Ólafur Arnalds talk about For Now I Am Winter on Tuesday May 13 on Echoes Hear this review in the Echoes Podcast Icelandic artists are subjected to many clichés: most commonly that their music reflects the frozen north, land of glaciers,…
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Ludovico Einaudi’s 21st Century Classicism-Echoes CD of the Month
Ludovico Einaudi’s In A Time Lapse Echoes March CD of the Month Hear an audio version of this review with music in the Echoes Podcast. Hear In a Time Lapse featured this weekend 3/8-10/2013 on Echoes. You could pretty much stop listening to Ludovico Einaudi’s new album In a Time Lapse after the second track…
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Ulrich Schnauss: Electronic Memories
Ulrich Schnauss’ A Long Way to Fall is the Echoes February CD of the Month. Hear an audio version of this review with music in the Echoes Podcast. Five years after his stormy, end-of-the-world electro-shoegaze treatise called Goodbye, German downtempo synth scientist Ulrich Schnauss returns with a new CD. Gone are the layers of distorted…
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Enter The Ambient Zone – Echoes January CD of the Month
The Ambient Zone – Just Music Café Volume 4 starts 2013 on a serene note Within the electronic folds and acoustic shifts of The Ambient Zone – Just Music Café Volume 4, is a sound world that’s both exploratory and serene. Just Music is the UK label whose impeccable roster ranges from deep ambient artists…
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Hammock Swings Out 2012 with CD of the Month
Ambient Post-Rock Avatars Transcend their Roots Hear Hammock interviewed on Echoes Tonight 03/06/2013. In an immersive experience where time loses meaning and there is no up nor down, it takes a quantum physicist’s sense of time and an astronaut’s sense of space to navigate. Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson are neither scientists nor pilots, but…