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Colin Vallon Trios Parlour Room Space Jazz.

Echoes will be recording a session with the Swiss jazz group, The Colin Vallon Trio tonight in Philadelphia at Turtle Studios.   A new group to American shores, they have their own take on the chamber jazz sound favored by their label, ECM records as well as their late countrymen, E.S.T.   I came across a video…

Destroyed by Moby: Echoes May CD of the Month.

Moby’s Destroyed is the Echoes May CD of the Month ***Hear interview with Moby tonight & tomorrow night on Echoes, June 13 & 14 and this weekend, June 18 & 20*** With Destroyed and his previous CD, Wait for Me, Moby has moved from an iconic electronic trendsetter to a singer-songwriter exploring personal stories with…

Electric Violin Ragas Bow at the Top of Echoes

Vicki Richards’ She Vanishes Appears at the Head of Echoes Top 25 for April. The Echoes Top 25 for April is up and as usual, our CD of the Month’s tops the list and justifiably so.  Vicki Richards’ She Vanishes is an impressive album that brings the early fusion sound into a new stage. In…

Icelandic Chamber Music Heads Echoes Top 25

Skuli Sverrisson’s Lush Ambiences Lead Echoes Top 25 for March. Skuli Sverrisson’s Seria II was our Echoes CD of the Month in March and it leads the Echoes Top 25 for March, bringing in a lot of other ambient chamber music on its coattails including Meg Bowles’ A Quiet Light, Dustin O’Halloran’s Lumiere and Olafur…

Echoes Top 25 for February

David Arkenstone’s Ambient World tops the Echoes Charts. It’s no surprise that David Arkenstone’s February CD of the Month, Ambient World leads the Echoes Top 25 for February.    (Read review and hear complete tracks.) David Arkenstone will be featured with an Echoes interview on Monday, March 21. That heads a list that goes from ambient…

Echoes Audio Goes Video with Jimmy Wahlsteen

See pictures put to Echoes audio in this video of Jimmy Wahlsteen.   His album,  181st Songs was an Echoes CD of the Month in January of 2010 and it made the 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2010. Candyrat Records put up a video where they took the complete audio from the Echoes review heard on…

Echoes January CD of the Month Agnes Obel – Philharmonics.

Minimalist songs of melancholy from Denmark with Echoes January CD of the Month Agnes Obel – Philharmonics Hear Agnes Obel playing live on Echoes Friday 10/07/11 From the first nursery rhyme piano solo, “Falling, Catching” to the last breathy vocal of “On Powdered Ground,” Agnes Obel’s debut album, Philharmonics,  has captured my melancholy midwinter mood…

Close Your Eyes-Dream Logic Is Here

Dream Logic-The Echoes Living Room Concerts v.16 72 minutes of Live Performances from Echoes. Dream Logic-The Echoes Living Room Concerts v.16 is here and it’s another journey into the magical sound world that is Echoes.  Echoes has spent the last 21 years creating links and matrixes between genres, weaving nightly journeys from ambient to acoustic…

Echoes August Top 25

Matthew Schoening leads the looping cellists to head of Echoes August Top 25 Summer closes with another strong Echoes Top 25 headed up by our August CD of the Month, Matthew Schoening’s Elements.  Not far behind it is our CD of the Month from July, Carmen Rizzo’s Looking Through Leaves, something we’ll be doing in…