Echoes Top 25 for September, 2014This is our 300th Top 25 list. 12 months x 25 years of Echoes Progressive electronics make it to the head of the Echoes Top 25 for September with Tigerforest’s The Tides of Day and Night , the Echoes CD of the Month for September. Newcomers to the list include…
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Tigerforest avoids lapsing into bombast and saccharine sentimentality. Instead, on The Tides of Day and Night he creates an expansive and immersive journey.
She was number one on Billboard in June and now she’s Number One at Echoes. Lana Del Rey’s “Ultraviolence” leads our Top 25 for August.The singer has turned in a fragile and alluring album that taps into the darker side of Echoes sonically and thematically. It was the CD of the Month in August and…
There’s some great CDs in the Echoes Top 25 for July. Leading the way is Yoed Nir’s CD of the Month, The Next Dream. He’s one of two cello albums to make the list. The other is first timer Maya Beiser with her album of cello covers, Uncovered.
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Interview: Ceiri Torjussen. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-CeiriTorjussen.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSCeiri Torjussen is a Welsh-born classically trained composer with jazz inclinations who has recorded an electronic ambient score for the movie Test, a story about professional dancers coping with the outbreak of AIDS in 1985 San Francisco. Torjussen’s score uses classic 70s and 80s synthesizer…
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Ambient Americana and Aliens from Fingerstyle Guitar Masterhttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-RichardLeoJohnson2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSRichard Leo Johnson is an idiosyncratic guitarist who pushed the limits of Michael Hedges-style extended technique before going completely out there with an Americana music of the imagination. His new album, Celeste, posits the idea of an alien abduction as one…
We Pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the Halfway Point. Hear them tonight on Echoes. See A Spotify Playlist Below It seems like it’s been such a long year, and it’s only half over. That’s what usually what happens when so much good music has come out. There are albums I feel…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/TimeIsUp.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSYoed Nir creates Ambient Cello Orchestras: The Next Dream Hear it featured tonight on Echoes It’s a good time to be a cellist. Rock artists from Arcade Fire to Shawn Colvin are using them to provide just that right amount of elegant soul to their work. And the…
Top 25 for June 2014. Guitars Pluck at the Top of the Echoes Top 25 for June Three guitarists release one of their strongest albums this past month. Topping the list is Carl Weingarten’s CD of the Month For June, Life Under Stars, a beautiful pastoral tinged Americana travelogue. John Luttrell is the newest of…
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Interview: Brian Reitzell. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-BrianReitzell.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHear Brian Reitzell talk about Auto Music, Hannibal, Takemitsu and driving in Echoes Podcast. Brian Reitzell is the music supervisor for films by director Sofia Coppola like Lost in Translation and The Bling Ring, and he composes original music for TV shows like Boss and…