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…
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Echoes November Top 25
Mark Preston’s Nature and Design Tops the Echoes Top 25 for November. Two electronic works top the
Program Highlights
Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning Bring Christmas Under the Wonder Sky
Echoes December CD of the Month Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning & Wendy Goodwin: Under The Wonder Sky Your Christmas CD for 2010 has slipped down the chimney. It’s been seven years since we had a seasonal album as our Echoes December CD of the Month. That was A Windham Hill Christmas, Vol. 2. Not coincidentally,…
Living Room Concerts
Close Your Eyes-Dream Logic Is Here
Dream Logic-The Echoes Living Room Concerts v.16 72 minutes of Live Performances from Echoes. Dream Logic-The Echoes Living Room Concerts v.16 is here and it’s another journey into the magical sound world that is Echoes. Echoes has spent the last 21 years creating links and matrixes between genres, weaving nightly journeys from ambient to acoustic…
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The Best of Echoes 2010 & Diliberto’s Best
The Best of Echoes 2010 Poll is LIVE! We’ve plugged in the Best of Echoes 2010 Poll. It’s been an interesting year for music and we’d like to know what put a buzz in your ears from the Echoes soundscape. You can pick your five fave Echoes albums and you ‘ll be entered a drawing…