Category: Program Highlights

Echoes Top 25 Surrenders to Jeff Oster.

Jeff Oster’s seductive album of lounge electronica, Surrender,  leads the Echoes Top 25 for September.  After a month of repeats it was great to get into new music this past month and a lot of it is in the Echoes Top 25.  Jon Durant leaps to the head with his new album, Dance of the…

Surrender to Jeff Oster’s September CD of the Month.

Hear Jeff Oster interviewed tonight 02/01/2012 on Echoes.  It’s Ambient Electronica Lounge Sounds from Horn Player Jeff Oster As Echoes September CD of the Month Until recently, you didn’t hear much trumpet outside of jazz in contemporary music. There’s Jon Hassell, Mark Isham and you’re pretty much done.  But lately there’s been a cavalcade of…

A Pleasant Aroma Atop Echoes Top 25 for August

Atomic Skunk Leads the Echoes Top 25 for August. Alchemy by Atomic Skunk wafted to the top of our Echoes Top 25, no surprise since it was our CD of the Month.  You can read a review and hear tracks from this entrancing album of electronica exotica.  August was a bit of an anomaly in…

Exotica Electronica from Atomic Skunk Echoes CD of the Month

Atomic Skunk turns music into Echoes CD of the Month Gold with Alchemy. You can hear a special show featuring Atomic Skunk’s Alchemy tonight on Echoes. Obvious jokes about the name aside, Rich Brodsky, recording as Atomic Skunk, has with each successive album been developing his own voice, one that merges influences from The Grateful…

Best of Echoes 2011 So Far.

Skuli Severrison, Agnes Obel and Moby Top Echoes Mid-Year List We usually wait until the end of the year for these lists but why not take stock as we pass the half-way mark of 2011. Here’s our25  favorite Echoes CDs from the first 6 months of 2011. Skuli Sverrisson – Seria II (click for review…

Ambient Celtic Music Echoes July CD of the Month.

Secret Garden’s Fionnuala Sherry Takes Tradition Ambient on Songs From Before On her solo debut album, Fionnuala Sherry tackles the old chestnut melodies of her Irish home, but Songs from Before is far from a traditional album.  Instead, Sherry has reimagined these songs, pulling them out of an Irish mist, coaxing them slowly from the…

Winterlight Melts Echoes June Top 25

Winterlight’s Hope Dies Last leads Echoes Top 25 for June The sun is shining and it’s in the 90s in the land of Echoes, but Winterlight didn’t melt under the heat as it leads the Echoes Top 25 this month.   His album, Hope Dies Last was the Echoes CD of the Month for June.  That…

Summer Brings Winterlight Echoes June CD of the Month

Echoes June CD of the Month: A Perfect CD of Melancholy Electronica by Winterlight Winterlight interviewed tonight, 7-18-11 on Echoes The name is decidedly out of season but the music of Winterlight will soothe a sun-seared mind on the hottest summer day, so maybe it is an appropriate selection for the June Echoes CD of…

Moby Destroys Echoes Top 25for May.

Moby’s Destroyed Tops Echoes Top 25  for May No surprise that Moby’s Destroyed was #1 on the Echoes Top 25 for May.  It was the Echoes CD of the Month. Electronic music dominates the Top 10 with a surprise at #2, Divine Matrix’s Invisible Landscape leaping in.  This album of melodic glitch-flecked music came out…

Destroyed by Moby: Echoes May CD of the Month.

Moby’s Destroyed is the Echoes May CD of the Month ***Hear interview with Moby tonight & tomorrow night on Echoes, June 13 & 14 and this weekend, June 18 & 20*** With Destroyed and his previous CD, Wait for Me, Moby has moved from an iconic electronic trendsetter to a singer-songwriter exploring personal stories with…