Echoes Top 25 for November 2020. Digitonal, our CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Ian Boddy, Steve Roach, Ane Brun (twice!) Tom Caufield and 19 other great CDs.
Best Of
Echoes November 2020 Top 25: Digitonal at the Top
Tag: dream pop
CD of the Month
December, 2020 Echoes CD of the Month: Ane Brun
Singer Ane Brun releases a perfect pair of CDs, After the Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow, exploring themes of loss and existence. Both are the Echoes CD of the Month.
Coming Up
Weekend, Dec 12-13, 2020 – Best of Echoes & Kevin Keller
The Best of Echoes 2020. In a bad year there was great music. Hear 20 of the Top 30 albums for 2020 and then hear an interview with Kevin Keller who is on that list.
Coming Up
Thursday, Dec 10, 2020 – Gracie and Rachel & Harold Budd R.I.P.
Gracie and Rachel’s latest album is Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong. They talk music, anger, and pandemic. Then we remember composer Harold Budd who passed on 12/7 with an hour special.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Dec 9, 2020 – 30 Icons: Dead Can Dance
It’s the fourth Icon of Echoes, Dead Can Dance. This duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry have created some of the most transcendent, time-shifting music of the late 20th century.
Playlists
Tuesday, Nov 24, 2020 – Echoes Program 2047B
The many moods of Thievery Corporation. We talk with Eric Hilton, who has two ambient lounge albums out, and his Thievery partner, Rob Garza about a music born in dub and music sampling.
Coming Up
Monday, Dec 7, 2020 – The Best of Echoes 2020
The Best of Echoes 2020. Echoes has gone through the hundreds of recordings that we’ve played and picked out the Top 30 albums for 2020, a horrible year in life, but a great year in music.
Playlists
Weekend, Nov 21-22, 2020 – Programs 2046A & 2046B
The Norwegian singer Ane Brun has been one of the understated sirens of dream pop. Then we take a Flashback 50 to the debut of Emerson Lake and Palmer.
Coming Up
Thursday, Dec 3, 2020 – The Echoes Covers Show
We’ll hear songs you know by people who didn’t originally record them including new cover versions of music by Roxy Music, Phil Collins, Cocteau Twins, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Playlists
Thursday, Nov 19, 2020 – Echoes Program 2046D
New music by Loma, the collaboration between singer Emily Cross and Jonathan Meiburg. They have a new album, Don’t Shy Away. We’ll also hear something new from Svara.