Music collecting is a passion, but it’s also an obsession. In a captivating article on NPR Music, James Jackson Toth analyzes his own decent into music addiction.
Echoes Top 25 for December is led by the CD of the month, Hiroki Okano’s Return to the Soul, followed by Gracie and Rachel’s debut album, Prequell, Tori Amos, FLOW, and more.
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The debut album by Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles is the Echoes CD of the Month for January 2018. Here a review of this beautiful chamber pop masterpiece in the Echoes Podcast.
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Film composer Jeff Rona has worked with Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard and Jon Hassell. Now he has his first solo album after 4 decades in music. He talks about “Projector” in Echoes Podcast.
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Thomas Dolby was an early avatar of electro-pop with hits like “She Blinded Me with Science” but now he’s a Professor at the Peabody Institute. We talk to him in the Echoes Podcast.
The debut album by Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles is the Echoes CD of the Month for January 2018. They are creating a chamber pop meeting of singer-songwriters and Erik Satie.
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Electronic artist Steve Roach rose up out of Space Music and the New Age into his own, deeply carved electronic music. He talks about his Grammy nomination in the Echoes Podcast.
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In the Echoes Podcast We talk to Hammock, the great ambient rock band. We’ll hear them talking about their new album, Mysterium, the #1 album in The Best of Echoes 2017.
There is no other Year End music list like Echoes Best of of 2017. Ambient Requiems. Deep space journeys, chamber pop, progrock epics, EDM journeys and world fusion. See who made the list.
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Echoes’s John Diliberto reviews Hiroki Okano’s Return to the Soul, the Echoes CD of the Month for December. Okano is a Zen gardener of sound where everything is balanced and in its proper place.