It’s the Best of Echoes 2022. It’s been a torrential year of new music. John Diliberto has been sifting through it all to pick out the 30 best albums of the last 12 months.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro teams up with slide guitarist Sonny Landreth and we’ll hear some deep ambient guitar by Jonas Munk, who records as Manual.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Belgian ambient composer Dirk Serries. He teams up with saxophonist Trosta on an album of ambient improvisations called Island On The Moon.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Erik Wøllo. The Norwegian guitarist and electronic artist has a meditative album called Sojourns. We’ll also hear the electronic designs of Time Wharp.
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.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by The Album Leaf, revisited. Jimmy Lavalle has gone back to his 2001 album, One Day I’ll Be On Time, and reworked it as One Day XX
We lost many artists from the Echoes galaxy in 2002, among them were giants of electronic music, creators of dream pop and explorers of the soul and sound. Here is the list.
It was a tough year for Icons of Echoes as Klaus Schulze and Vangelis both left earth’s orbit and they were followed by Julee Cruise, Low Roar and too many more. Echoes remembers.
The Best Albums of 2022 on Echoes. We pick out our 30 Favorite albums of the year covering the range of the Echoes Soundscape. This is a Best of list like no other. It was hard to choose just 30!
Author and composer Albert Glinsky talks about his book, Switched-On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution. It’s a deep dive into the inventor who changed the face of modern music.