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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Electric Violin Ragas Bow at the Top of Echoes
Vicki Richards’ She Vanishes Appears at the Head of Echoes Top 25 for April. The Echoes Top 25 for April is up and as usual, our CD of the Month’s tops the list and justifiably so. Vicki Richards’ She Vanishes is an impressive album that brings the early fusion sound into a new stage. In…
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Electric Raga Violin with Vicki Richards
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…