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,…
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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…
Best Of
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…
Best Of, CD of the Month
Acoustic guitar dreams tops Echoes Top 25 for October.
African singers, Resonator guitarists, laptop jockeys and Japanese icons hit the Echoes October Top 25. Todd Boston’s CD of the Month, Alive, topped our Top 25 for October. You can read a review of the beautiful album and hear tracks from it here. While last month saw a rise of electronic music, this month sees…
Program Highlights
Electronica Bliss with Mark Preston’s Nature & Design.
It’s cross country electronic journey with Mark Preston’s Nature & Design-The Echoes November CD of the Month A lot of artists get lost in the land of glitch, exulting in the sonic mutations and stuttering effects that create a kinetic groove, but tend to sound less musical with every new strategy. Mark Preston isn’t one…
Best Of
Echoes September Top 25: Plugged In
It’s a plugged in Echoes Top 25 for September. Eight of the Top 10 are electronic albums or electronically enhanced like Matthew Schoening’s Elements and Zoe Keating’s Into the Trees, both looping cello CDs by the way. But acoustic music still has an impact, with Portico Quartet.. oops! They are mostly acoustic, but they use…
CD of the Month
Todd Boston Alive-Echoes October CD of the Month.
World Fusion in a Pastoral Mode from Urban Nature Guitarist Todd Boston is a child of Windham Hill records and Shakti and you can hear that with his world fusion duo, Urban Nature and on Alive, his solo debut. Although to call it solo might be a misnomer. Boston plays acoustic guitar as well as…
Program Highlights
Chapman Stickman-Rob Martino
Echoes has an interview tonight, 9/20/2010, with Rob Martino who talks about his progressive rock approach to the Chapman Stick, an instrument invented in 1969 by Emmett Chapman. Hearing Rob play, it’s sometimes difficult to understand quite what’s going on, so, here’s a couple of videos of Rob Martino in action with the Chapman Stick. …
CD of the Month
Helpling & Jenkins-The Crossing: Echoes September CD of the Month.
Cinematic music in search of an epic film. The summer of 2010 may not be remembered for many great movies, (Inception notwithstanding), but David Helpling and Jon Jenkins have brought us a great soundtrack. It’s just that movie will be in your imagination. Mixing keyboards, guitars and programming, their latest CD, The Crossing states its…
Best Of
Echoes August Top 25
Matthew Schoening leads the looping cellists to head of Echoes August Top 25 Summer closes with another strong Echoes Top 25 headed up by our August CD of the Month, Matthew Schoening’s Elements. Not far behind it is our CD of the Month from July, Carmen Rizzo’s Looking Through Leaves, something we’ll be doing in…