Mike Oldfield is the 11th of 30 Icons of Echoes. We go through his catalog and Rank his 10 Best albums. And #1 isn’t Tubular Bells. We also rank all 6 iterations of Tubular Bells.
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Ten Essential Mike Oldfield Albums
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Enya 10th Icon of Echoes: Five of Her Best Albums
Enya is the 10th Icon of Echoes. Her voice descends from the heavens in multiple layers. We look across her 34 year solo career and pick her 5 best recordings out of 8 proper album releases.
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Robert Rich Icon of Echoes: 10 Essential Albums
Robert Rich is the 9th of 30 Icons of Echoes and we’ve picked ten of his best recordings from across his 40-year career that exemplify his genius, beauty and soul.
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Klaus Schulze: The 7th Icon of Echoes
Klaus Schulze-The 7th Icon of Echoes: An Appreciationby John Diliberto Updated 1/26/2021 Three years ago we celebrated the 70th birthday of Klaus Schulze and I wrote this at that time. Now, as we celebrate his anointment as the 7th of 30 Icons of Echoes, I’m taking another look back at this giant of electronic music.…
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Vangelis: Ten Essential Albums from an Icon of Echoes
Vangelis is an icon of electronic music and his influence remains pervasive. As we celebrate his anointment as the 6th Icon of Echoes, we select 10 of his Essential CDs.
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Cellist David Darling Leaves the Planet
Cellist David Darling passed on January 8, 2021. He was a pioneer of ambient chamber music, a member of the Paul Winter Consort and took the cello into new terrain. Echoes remembers.
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Jean-Michel Jarre’s Virtual Notre Dame Cathedral
Jean-Michel Jarre creates a virtual Notre Dame Cathedral with the stage as the altar and his synthesizer cockpit the pulpit. John Diliberto goes to church and experiences electronic heaven.
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5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.
Harold Budd passed away on December 7th at 84. Here are Five Essential Harold Budd albums from this avatar of ambient chamber music who defined a sound that was unrepentantly beautiful.
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Brian Eno – Icon of Echoes: 10 Essential Albums
Brian Eno is the number one of 30 Icons of Echoes. He launched Ambient Music and altered pop music. Here is a list of ten Essential Brian Eno Albums, from ambient to angst.
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Wax Tailor’s Dark Video for Misery-A Slice of 2020 Dystopia
Wax Tailor, master of the downtempo cut and paste modality, releases a new and dystopian vision called “Misery” that is pitched for these times with vision of an authoritarian world.