It was a wild year for music on Echoes and we’ve sorted through the hundreds of new music releases to pick the Top 25 albums for 2018. There are familiar veteran acts and some exciting newcomers.
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In the Echoes Podcast, CloZee talks about a sound that she has called World Bass. She samples global instruments and motifs and puts them in a blender of beats.
New Age Grammy Award winner Peter Kater plays a set of solo piano improvisations in the mode of his Grammy winning album, Dancing on Water, live on Echoes
Hammock have forged a distinctive sound for the 21st century, merging ambient guitars with string orchestrations Their album, Universalis is the Echoes CD of the Month for December.
The Echoes Top 25 for November 2018 features the Dead Can Dance CD of the Month “Dionysus” at the top, followed by White Sun, Lena Natalia, Mark Dwane, William Fitzsimmons and 20 more.
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In the Echoes Podcast, Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry talks about their conceptual album, Dionysus, a wedding of Greek mythology, tribal culture and global ritual sounds.
Olivia Chaney is an English singer who is expanding the sound of folk music. We’ll hear live versions of songs from her latest solo album, Shelter.
American primitive guitar goes east when Buck Curran plays live. Formerly one-half of the psychedelic pop duo, Arborea, Curran goes more rustic, but still trippy when he plays live on Echoes.
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Singer Olivia Chaney came to renown as something of a folk revivalist and formed the folk rock group Offa Rex with The Decemberists, but there is more than folk to this enchanting singer.
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Mystic Journey sound like the house band in Middle Eastern. We talk to flutist Suzanne Teng and percussionist Gilbert Levy about their world fusion in the Echoes Podcast.