It’s the Best of Echoes 2024 So Far. As we hit the midway mark of the year, we’re going to select the 30 best releases to rise above this year. Find out if your favorites made the list!
Echoes brings you the June CD of the Month, Coming Home by Limina. It’s a masterpiece of ambient chamber music combining orchestra and electronics in a tone poem for return and affirmation.
Let the sunshine in as Echoes orchestrate a soundscape for the Summer Solstice. We’ll hear music from Jake Shimabukuro, George Winston, Mimi Page, and Gershwin via cellist Maya Beiser.
Music from Khruangbin, the trio who straddles the line between psychedelic, slow jam R&B and trance music. They have a new album called A La Sala. We’ll hear that and Julia Holter.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by the ambient country band SUSS, although their new eponymous release sounds more ambient than country. We’ll also hear classic space music from Robert Schroeder.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we step into the Ambient Church to hear Steve Roach and his concert recorded live at a New York City church last year. We’ll also hear Rena Jones and Kilo Watts.
More long tracks. We’ll hear a classic from Eberhard Weber off his album, The Colors of Chloe, and an electronic artist out of Denmark, Klaus Schonning, from his album, Symphodysse.
On the next Echoes we celebrate Klaus Schulze’s Blackdance. Released in 1974, it was Schulze’s 3rd release and the first to see him moving in the direction of music for which he’s best known.
Kasbo is an electronic artist out of Sweden whose music hangs between ambient and EDM. He has a new album, The Learning of Urgency. We’ll hear that, as well as music by Caoilfhionn Rose.