Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas but we do have 12 CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward from January and then backwards from December.
Before we completely leave 2023 behind, we look back at the Best of Albums of 2023 on Echoes. It was such a good year with artists like BT, Steve Roach and Amaara making it to the final 30.
It’s an Echoes Winterlüde when we hear acclaimed New Age artist David Arkenstone performing music from his new release, Winterlüde. It’s the seasonal album of your dreams.
Santa’s here and his bag is full of sonic seasonings for an Echoes Christmas. Traditional carols are reinvented and new carols emerge. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
It has been a great year for new music and we’ll pick out our Top 30 best albums of 2023 on Echoes. You might want to see who is number one, but you will love who is 30.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Delay Tactics, a progressive rock band from the 1980s that recently reformed with original members Carl Weingarten, David Udel, and Walter Whitney.
We hear electronic sounds from Brazil when we talk to Anna. She’s creating ambient music after a career in thumping techno. But her album Intentions revels in serene melodic cycles.
Chamber music sounds inspired by National Parks from oboist and pianist, Jill Haley. It’s from her album called The Forests and Shores of Acadia. It’s in the current of a Slow Flow Echoes.
Outkast’s Andre 3000 goes ambient and new age. We’ll hear music from the rapper’s solo debut album, New Blue Sun which is all instrumental and features no real beats and lots of flute.