Echoes Top 25 for December is led by the CD of the month, Hiroki Okano’s Return to the Soul, followed by Gracie and Rachel’s debut album, Prequell, Tori Amos, FLOW, and more.
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Echoes Top 25 for December 2017: Hiroki Okano Returns to the Top
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Echoes Podcast: Gracie and Rachel Album Review
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The debut album by Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles is the Echoes CD of the Month for January 2018. Here a review of this beautiful chamber pop masterpiece in the Echoes Podcast.
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Monday, January 1st, 2018-Echoes Program 1801A
Gracie and Rachel are a duo creating a sublime chamber pop that mixes the neo-minimalism Max Richter with heartfelt, but oblique songs. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for January.
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Steve Roach in Echoes Podcast
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Electronic artist Steve Roach rose up out of Space Music and the New Age into his own, deeply carved electronic music. He talks about his Grammy nomination in the Echoes Podcast.
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The Best of Echoes 2017-The Definitive 25 Albums
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.
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Weekend December 9 & 10, 2017-Echoes Program 1749A
We head east on Echoes for our December CD of the Month. It’s by Japanese composer Hiroki Okano. He’s a multi-instrumentalist working in nature based ambient music as well as electronic dance music. He has a new album of pastoral dreams called Return to the Soul.
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Hiroki Okano Return to the Soul in December Echoes Podcast
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Echoes’s John Diliberto reviews Hiroki Okano’s Return to the Soul, the Echoes CD of the Month for December. Okano is a Zen gardener of sound where everything is balanced and in its proper place.
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December CD of the Month: Hiroki Okano Return to the Soul
Hiroki Okano is a Japanese musician creating a unique and meditative world fusion, taking tradition and bringing it into the 21st century on his December CD of the Month, Return to the Soul.
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Monday, December 4th, 2017-Echoes Program 1749A
We head east on Echoes for our December CD of the Month. It’s by Japanese composer Hiroki Okano. He’s a multi-instrumentalist working in nature based ambient music as well as electronic dance music. He has a new album of pastoral dreams called Return to the Soul.
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Echoes Top 25 for November 2017: Todd Boston is Number One
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.