Explore a great year of music with the Echoes CD of the Month Picks. See all 12 albums including recordings by Azam Ali, Desert Dwellers, Lamb and Lana Del Rey. Hear them on the 12/17 show.
All India Radio’s Eternal is the December CD of the Month. Inspired by space rock and a 1962 Sci-Fi film, All India Radio creates a trip album for the 21st century.
Lana Del Rey’s Norman F Rockwell is a lush noir take on Southern California culture, love and music. Del Rey combines string-laden pop and psychedelic explorations.
Azam Ali’s Phantoms is Echoes October CD of the Month. An album of electronic moods and downtempo, Eastern-bent grooves, John Diliberto calls Ali one of the most alluring voices of our era.
Hugar’s Varða is the Echoes September CD of the Month. The Icelandic duo creates a perfect ambient chamber album of Autumnal colors and chilled moods inspired by Icelandic landscapes.
David Pritchard’s Evanescent is the Echoes August CD of the Month. Pritchard creates glowing acoustic guitar choirs over-dubbing his own instrument in beautiful filigrees.
Lamb has crafted their most beautiful album, The Secret of Letting Go. It merges electronics and dream pop in songs questioning love, life and transience. It’s Echoes July CD of the Month.
Desert Dwellers has been creating electro tribal music for 20 years, wiring the sounds of the global village. Their new album, Breath, is our June CD of the Month.
Massergy’s ambient music is suffused with psychedelic influences from Mexican Indian rituals to Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead. His album Fire Opal is Echoes May CD of the Month.
The California Guitar Trio and Montréal Guitar Trio converge on an album of intricate interplay and selfless complexity with In A Landscape, Echoes April CD of the Month.