Planetary Unfolding by Michael Stearns is a seminal ambient album from 1981 by Michael Stearns. A new reissue reveals this electronic epic was indeed the music of the future.
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Echoes April CD of the Month: Planetary Unfolding
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Echoes March CD of the Month: Trentemoller’s Memoria
Trentemøller’s music exudes the sounds of 1970s German Progressive Rock,1980s New Wave, and 1990s Shoegaze but transfigured by electronics and a taste for the dark and melancholy..
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February 2022 CD of the Month: Hollan Holmes
With Emerald Waters, Hollan Holmes has forged a definitive recording that wraps you in an entrancing web of sound, and sends you spinning into space. It’s Echoes February CD of the Month.
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Echoes Jan 2022 CD of the Month: The Great Northern
The Great Northern takes classic analog synthesizers and sculpts a nightscape sky that ascends to the heavens on his debut album, Nocturnes.
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Echoes December 2021 CD of the Month: Winter Tales
Winter Tales brings together artists from Ambient Chamber and Neo-Classical music plus Brian & Roger Eno to take traditional Christmas songs and send them into serene space.
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Echoes November 2021 CD of the Month: Marconi Union
Marconi Union are a true 21st century band. After the deep ambiences and abstract grooves of their last few recordings they hit the groove again on their latest release, Signals.
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Echoes October 2021 CD of the Month: Kevin Keller-Shimmer
Shimmer is Kevin Keller’s latest release, following up on 2020’s The Front Porch of Heaven. it’s another ambient chamber music beauty and Echoes October CD of the Month.
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Echoes September 2021 CD of the Month: Chronotope Project
Chronotope Project creates deep ambient spacescapes. Steeped in Greek philosophy and physics, his new album, Gnosis, is an immersive journey and the Echoes September CD of the Month.
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Echoes Aug 2021 CD of the Month: Hybrid’s Black Halo
Hybrid has created an album for a pandemic world. “Black Halo” is part dystopian nightmare and part a hope for humanity. They tap EDM energies and soulful songwriting in a plea for the world.
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Echoes July 2021 CD of the Month: Lanterna – Hidden Drives
Lanterna Travels Ambient Country Roads with Hidden Drives, Echoes July CD of the MontnBy John Diliberto It’s been six years since Lanterna released a new album and Hidden Drives is a welcome return. Lanterna was at the leading edge of Ambient Americana. It’s a sound passed down from Ry Cooder’s Paris, Texas through Brian Eno’s…