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 and then backwards. 2022 was a great year for music on Echoes.
It was a tough year for Icons of Echoes as Klaus Schulze and Vangelis both left earth’s orbit and they were followed by Julee Cruise, Low Roar and too many more. Echoes remembers.
New music by Ólafur Arnalds – kind of. The Icelandic composer has gathered a bevy of other musicians to reinterpret the songs from his album, Some Kind of Peace, on piano.
Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo, followed by Delay Tactics, Rebecca Pidgeon, Desert Dwellers, Roger Universe and 20 more great artists are featured in the Echoes Top 25 for October.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we get amorphous with Forrest Fang. The eclectic composer has a new album called The Lost Seasons of Amorphia combining synthesizers with zithers, gamelan, and gu-zheng.
Ambient avatar Brian Eno releases a vocal album that ponders the end of the world. He does it in hymn-like ambient songs on FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, where Eno is at his most naked ever.
New music by Ólafur Arnalds – kind of. The Icelandic composer has gathered a bevy of other musicians to reinterpret the songs from his album, Some Kind of Peace, on piano.
Author and composer Albert Glinsky talks about his book, Switched-On, Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution. It’s a deep dive into the inventor who changed the face of modern music.