Flutist Suzanne Teng returns with Mystic Journey for their first album in 13 years, a lush and seductive journey into world fusion. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for September.
Tamsin Wilson writes about common things like dust and centipedes but turns them into interior epics works. She’s influenced by visual artists, her parents taste in pop and psychedelic music and things that might be crawling around her room or in her head.
The video for Ulrich Schnauss’ “Love Grows Out of Thin Air” is a heartbreaking story of loss and sadness.
Synthwave is all the rage in electronic circles. On the next Echoes, two musicians with a direct lineage to that sound, Thorsten Quaschning and Ulrich Schnauss. Each is a solo artist and a member of Tangerine Dream.
ECHOES TOP 25 for July 2017 Hear a Spotify Playlist of Top 25 Below London Grammar – Truth is a Beautiful Thing (Ministry of Sound Recordings) Wilsen – I Go Missing in my Sleep (Secret City Records) Yaima – OvO (Yaima) Maggie Koerner – Dig Down Deep (EP) (R’COUP’D) Emel Mathlouthi – Ensen (PTKF) Nym – Lilac Chaser (Nym) …
German duo and Tangerine Dream members Ulrich Schnauss & Thorsten Quaeschning create a state-of-the-art sequencer excursion called “Synthwaves.” It’s the Echoes August CD of the Month.
Truth is a Beautiful Thing and so is the music that London Grammar makes on their new album. The English dreampop trio has released one of the most powerfully contemplative albums of the year.
Truth is a Beautiful Thing and so is the music that London Grammar makes on their new album. The English dreampop trio has released one of the most powerfully contemplative albums of the year.
We survey the first six months of the year for our favorite albums. Among them are Wilsen’s I Go Missing in My Sleep, Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene 3, and Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn.
Wilsen’s I go Missing in My Sleep leads Echoes June Top 25 followed by the electronic road trip of Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren and the melodic finger stylings of Michael Hewett.