In a world of dance beats, rapid fire sequences and songs devolving into little more than hooks, Hammock takes a deeper, darker more textured approach. They are the Mark Rothko of ambient music with sheets of sound shifting beneath each other like tectonic plates, but with the hint of melody and the feel of spirits…
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12 Echoes CDs of the Month Tonight
WE LOOK BACK AT ECHOES CD OF THE MONTH PICKS FROM 2013 Every month on Echoes we pick out the CD of the Month. It’s the album we think best represents the sound of Echoes and simply, the best album in that sound. This year has been a great one for CD of the Month …
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David Helpling & Jon Jenkins’ CD of the Month Hat Trick
DAVID HELPLING & JON JENKINS DISCOVER THE THIRD RING OF THEIR TRILOGY: FOUND THE ECHOES DECEMBER CD OF THE MONTH Hear it featured tonight 12/2, on Echoes. The next time you watch an episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones, mute the TV sound and dial up David Helpling and Jon Jenkins’ Found . You won’t…
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Moby’s Innocents Echoes CD of the Month.
Moby Scores Echoes CD of the Month Hat Trick with Innocents. Hear Moby’s Innocents Featured Tonight on Echoes. I don’t know if Moby intended it this way, but Innocents sounds like the conclusion of a trilogy, joining Wait for Me and Destroyed, his two previous albums. As on those recordings, Moby plays the ambient song-smith,…
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The Sound of Luminous Beings: AKARA
Akara’s The World Beyond Echoes October CD of the Month Hear it tonight on Echoes. With the sound of Chinese cymbals, Akara opens their second album with appropriately-titled “Unlocking the Portal” taking us to The World Beyond. It’s their second album of music inspired by “the luminous beings,” and it’s not long before those beings…
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Darshan Ambient’s Little Things
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…