There is no other Year End music list like Echoes Best of of 2017. Ambient Requiems. Deep space journeys, chamber pop, progrock epics, EDM journeys and world fusion. See who made the list.
Echoes Top 25 for November’s is topped by our CD of the month Todd Boston’s One, followed by the debut album from FLOW, Tom Caulfield’s Wash the Dusk with Silver. See the complete list.
Several Echoes Artists are nominated in this years Grammy Awards including Steve Roach, Bonobo, Odesza, and Brian Eno. We take an Echoes look at the good and bad of this years nominees.
Film composer Jeff Rona has worked with Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard and Jon Hassell. Now he has released his first solo album after 4 decades in music. He talks about “Projector.”
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by English electronic band Radium 88’s “Perpetual Emotion Machine” and Dungen get remixed on “Haxan Versions by Prins Thomas.”
English composer Poppy NoGood is a composer who has the drive of Prequell and the moods of Dustin O’Halloran. She has a subtly surreal video out for her song, “Trains.”
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music from Behind the Shadow Drops. That’s a solo project from Takaakira Goto. He’s the founding member of the Japanese guitar band Mono.
October’s CD of the Month, Prequell’s The Future Comes Before leads Echoes Top 25 for October, followed by September’s pick, Mystic Journey’s Kingdom of Mountains and the debut of FLOW.
Brian Eno has a new collaboration coming fronted by keyboardist Tom Rogerson called Finding Shore. They’ve just released the second video for “Idea of Order at Kyson Point.”
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by guitarist Tom Caufield who has put out three great albums in less than a year. His new one is Wash the Dusk With Silver. We’ll also hear new music by ambient chamber group, Balmorhea.