Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas, but we do have 12 CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward and then backwards. 2022 was a great year for music on Echoes.
It was a tough year for Icons of Echoes as Klaus Schulze and Vangelis both left earth’s orbit and they were followed by Julee Cruise, Low Roar and too many more. Echoes remembers.
It’s the Best of Echoes 2022. It’s been a torrential year of new music. John Diliberto has been sifting through it all to pick out the 30 best albums of the last 12 months.
Jimi Hendrix would’ve turned 80 this past November 27th. We celebrate by talking to Eddie Kramer, producer and engineer of Hendrix’s first three albums and many of the posthumous releases.
New music on Echoes by Weyes Blood from her album And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow, and a release by Moby from his new label, teaming up with Jamaican-Asian singer Akemi Fox.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Bruno SanFilippo. He’s Argentine-born but based in Spain. He has crafted a new album inspired by social media called Redes, which is Spanish for network.
Music by Karmacoda, a band out of San Francisco. They’re tapping that old Trip-hop sound on their new album Lessons in Time. We’ll also hear from Aukai’s new album called Apricity.
We talk with Airport People: not weary airline travelers, but ambient chamber music artist Leon Todd Johnson. He has an album of creaky piano centered compositions called From Nine Mornings.
Jimi Hendrix would’ve turned 80 this past November 27th. We celebrate by talking to Eddie Kramer, producer and engineer of Hendrix’s first three albums and many of the posthumous releases.