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Max Richter is among the second generation of ambient chamber music composers, creating haunting themes based in minimalist strategies.
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Max Richter in Echoes Podcast
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Echoes Top 25 for February 2015
Fernwood and Lanterna bring an Ambient Americana hue to the Echoes Top 25 for February. Both were Echoes CDs of the Month in February and March respectively. Rebekka Karijord, Zola Jesus and Shadowlands among the artists making their Echoes Top 25 debuts.
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Lanterna Live On Echoes
After nine years, Lanterna returns with a new album, Backyards and plays live on Echoes.
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Lanterna’s Backyards Echoes March CD of the Month
An Excursion in Ambient Americana from Lanterna is Echoes March CD of the MonthLanterna’s Backyards opens with the rollicking title track, a screaming ride down the Pacific Coast highway kind of song that you might expect to hear from the Eagles in their rare instrumental moments. It’s a great song with the twangy guitar and…
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Sherry Finzer in Echoes Podcast
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Sherry Finzer plays in a duo with a cowboy, was an aerobics instructor, classically trained flute player and now makes ambient chamber music in Arizona.
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Detroit Electronic Ambience in Echoes Podcast
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7and5 is the recording persona of John Nixon, a Detroit electronic artist who records jingles in his day job, but scores ambient electronic fantasies at night.
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Ricky Kej & Wouter Kellerman in Echoes Podcast
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Indian musician Ricky Kej and South African flutist Wouter Kellerman created a world fusion epic called Winds of Samsara which won the 2015 New Age Grammy Award
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Erik Scott in Echoes Podcast
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Erik Scott played bass with Alice Cooper, and was a founding member of Sonia Dada. On his own, he creates atmospheric music centered on his melodic bass lines.
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Fernwood Echoes February CD of the Month
If it wasn’t for Martin Mull’s 1970s TV series, Fernwood T2 Night, the name Fernwood would more instantly conjure up pastoral images of a backwoods town from a time gone by. The band called Fernwood does that, only their backwoods could be in Bangalore, Senegal or in the Appalachian hills. It’s not that the music…
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Echoes Top 25 for January 2015
Dreams and More in Echoes Top 25 for January.The first month of the new year begins strongly with a Top Five that includes 3 CDs of the Month. At the top is this month’s pick, Sherry Finzer’s haunting Sanctuary III: Beyond the Dream. There’s last month’s pick, Wax Tailor’s propulsive chanson and Hollywood sound collage,…