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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.
Music by Karmacoda, a band out of San Francisco. They’re tapping that old Trip-hop sound on their new album Lessons in Time. We’ll also hear from Aukai’s new album called Apricity.
The Siberian sound of Otyken. They marry the tribal sound of the native Chulym people with modern production and the ferocious voice of Azyan. John Diliberto takes us to Siberia with Otyken.
New music by Icelandic singer JFDR. She’s collaborated with Olafur Arnalds and now has a new single. We’ll also hear from Hans Christian who has a new collaboration with singer Jim Gelcer.
We’ll hear a new collaboration between string player and electronic artist Rena Jones with electronic artist KiloWatts and we’ll hear Jean-Michel Jarre remixed by Brian Eno.
The New Age category of the Grammys has changed to Best New Age, Ambient and Chant Album, but the nominees remain pretty much the same as it ever was for the 2023 Grammys.
Monsoon was an Asian fusion band featuring singer Sheila Chandra. 40 Years ago they had a massive hit with the song “Ever So Lonely” and now, their debut album Third Eye is being reissued.
Suzanne Teng and Gilbert Levy go in the Tank, the reverberant water tank in Colorado. Suzanne deploys her many flutes in its echoes on a new meditative release called Shimmer.