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.
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…
Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas converge on Eight Fragments of an Illusion, exploring inner universes and outer space with shoegaze guitar and synthesizer layers. It’s Echoes June CD of the Month.
London Grammar have created a deep, immersive concept album of churning moods and lyrical explorations of love, betrayal and America. It’s Echoes May CD of the Month.
Carl Weingarten weaves a chamber Americana sound with multiple guitars that take you from country twang to psychedelic free-falls to pastoral bliss. It’s Echoes April CD of the Month.
Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s 4th collaboration, Ravenna, is the Echoes March CD of the Month. It’s an album of layered textures, intricate instrumentation and deep moods.
Echoes February CD of the Month: Time Traveler is ELEON a.k.a. Michael L. Rogers and he’s made a melodic electronic downtempo sci-fi opus to take you out of this world called Time Falter.
Steve Roach is an Icon of Echoes. His 2020 release Tomorrow is the Echoes CD of the Month. Hear this analog modular sequencer dervish from the master of that sound.
Singer Ane Brun releases a perfect pair of CDs, After the Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow, exploring themes of loss and existence. Both are the Echoes CD of the Month.
Electronics meets classical instrumentation in the world that Digitonal has occupied for much of this century, as avatars of ambient chamber music.