Robin Guthrie Heads up Echoes Top 25 for November As expected, Robin Guthrie‘s Carousel leads the Echoes Top 25 for November. It was our Echoes CD of the Month for November. If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s a definitive album from a musician who has defined post-shoegaze ambient guitar. Also on the list is…
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CD of the Month
From Country to Cosmic: Michael Spriggs’ Neurasenia-Echoes December CD of the Month
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091202.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA country picker finds his ambient soul with Michael Spriggs’ Neurasenia: Echoes December CD of the Month You can hear an Audio version of this Blog with Michael Spriggs’ music. Hot guitar pickers hang around Nashville like grapes dangling from the vineyards of Napa Valley. Michael Spriggs is…
Living Room Concerts, Reviews & Commentary
Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze’s Griot Jazz
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091125.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAblaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze at the Crossroads of Griot and Jazz You can hear an audio version of this blog with music. The African kora is an instrument that gently seduces you with it’s sound. Made from a large calabash gourd cut in half, it’s covered in…
Living Room Concerts
Still: Echoes-Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 15
Still: Echoes, the Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 15 has arrived. Like all our CDs it’s a perfect Echoes blend of music from pure acoustic works to the extremes of electronic music, with ambient chamber music nestled next to deep space explorations. The album builds in an arc from Jesse Cook’s sweet “Rain,” with some…
Best Of
John Diliberto’s Top Ten CDs & Songs for 2009.
John Diliberto’s Personal Top Ten. It seems like every year, annual year end lists are coming earlier and earlier. Just as Christmas decorations start turning up in stores around the beginning of October, year end lists are arriving the beginning of November. And of course, Echoes has already launched its Best of Echoes 2009 Poll. …
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ECHOES TOP 25 for October: Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson’s Frio Suite #1
Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson’s Frio Suite Tops Echoes Top 25 for October. October was a strange month for Echoes. We spent two weeks running down the listeners 200 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes. Great shows. Not a lot of current music, but we made up for it by playing almost exclusively new music…
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Echoes Top 25 for September: Fernwood Heads List
Fernwood tops the Echoes Top 25 for September with their CD of the Month, Sangita September was another strong month for new music on Echoes, led by the second album from Fernwood, Sangita. I wrote about this group and their global Americana chamber music in my September CD of the Month review. Interestingly, the top…
CD of the Month
Echoes CD of the Month: Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Frio Suite
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/JohnsonKeaggyEL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSKeyboardist Jeff Johnson and Guitarist Phil Keaggy converge on a CD of Pastoral Chamber Ambiences You can hear an Audio Review of Frio Suite, with Music here. Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy are musicians from different musical worlds. Jeff Johnson is best known for his many Celtic and…
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Top 20 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes: John’s Picks
We asked listeners to pick their Top 10 CDs which will be tabulated into a list of 200 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes. The only requirements were they had to have been played on Echoes, but could have been released at any time. I’ve modified those rules for my list, limiting myself to the…
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20 Icons of Echoes: John’s Picks
We’ve been asking you to submit your 20 Icons and Top 10 Echoes CDs for our 20th Anniversary. If you haven’t yet, go to The Echoes 20th Anniversary Listener Poll and enter for you chance to win an iPod Touch. Here’s my 2o Icons. JOHN DILIBERTO’S 20 ICONS OF ECHOES The Icons are always difficult.…