Electric Violinist Vicki Richards Appears with Echoes April CD of the Month: She Vanishes Vicki Richards is a violinist who’s plugged in and globally wired. And she has been since we started playing her music back at the dawn of Echoes in 1989 with the original version of her album, Parting The Waters. She’s played…
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Icelandic Chamber Music Heads Echoes Top 25
Skuli Sverrisson’s Lush Ambiences Lead Echoes Top 25 for March. Skuli Sverrisson’s Seria II was our Echoes CD of the Month in March and it leads the Echoes Top 25 for March, bringing in a lot of other ambient chamber music on its coattails including Meg Bowles’ A Quiet Light, Dustin O’Halloran’s Lumiere and Olafur…
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Skúli Sverrisson’s Seria II.
Skúli Sverrisson’s Seria II is the Echoes March CD of the Month A sideman to New York’s music elite turns in a solo electric chamber work masterpiece. Hear Skúli Sverrisson talk about his music tonight 5/27 Echoes. Ambient chamber music is often atmospheric, melancholy and serene, but rarely is it as charming as Seria II…
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Echoes Top 25 for February
David Arkenstone’s Ambient World tops the Echoes Charts. It’s no surprise that David Arkenstone’s February CD of the Month, Ambient World leads the Echoes Top 25 for February. (Read review and hear complete tracks.) David Arkenstone will be featured with an Echoes interview on Monday, March 21. That heads a list that goes from ambient…
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Echoes Top 25 for January
Agnes Obel’s Philharmonics Heads Echoes Top 25 for January Ambient chamber music is big on January’s Top 25. Agnes Obel leads it with her delicately serene and haunting debut, Philharmonics, which sets her voice in a chamber bed of piano and cello. I’m sure this album will be in my Top 5 at the end…
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Arkenstone Goes Ambient with Echoes Feb CD of the Month
David Arkenstone Enters a Dreamstate with Ambient World: Echoes February CD of the Month David Arkenstone and ambient are not two names I’d expect to see together. The composer and multi-instrumentalist built his reputation as the sultan of symphonic new age music, mixing synthesizer, orchestras, guitars and more in dynamic compositions that could’ve been off…
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Echoes January CD of the Month Agnes Obel – Philharmonics.
Minimalist songs of melancholy from Denmark with Echoes January CD of the Month Agnes Obel – Philharmonics Hear Agnes Obel playing live on Echoes Friday 10/07/11 From the first nursery rhyme piano solo, “Falling, Catching” to the last breathy vocal of “On Powdered Ground,” Agnes Obel’s debut album, Philharmonics, has captured my melancholy midwinter mood…
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Echoes Top 25 for December-Christmas is Still Here!
Christmas Music Tops the Tree of the Echoes Top 25 for December December is always a strange time for the Echoes Top 25. Seasonal programming and Best of Year shows skew the playlists towards Christmas sounds and older materiel. But new music does get played nevertheless. Heading up our December list, it’s no surprise to…
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The Best of Echoes 2010 Listener Poll.
Here it is, the Best of Echoes 2010 Listener Poll. These are albums you thought were the best Echoes CDs this past year. #1: Brian Eno Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Warp Records) Hammock Chasing After Shadows…Living with the Ghosts (Hammock Music) Enigma Platinum Collection (EMI/Virgin) Erik Wollo Gateway (Projekt) Carbon Based…
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25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2010.
ECHOES PICKS THEIR TOP 25 FOR 2010 The Echoes 2010 Listener Poll is in full swing, but this is what we think was the best music played on Echoes in 2010, compiled by the Echoes staff of John Diliberto, Kimberly Haas and Jeff Towne. Twelve of them were Echoes CD of the Month selections in…