Can you see the stars in the longest night sky? It must be an Echoes Winter Solstice. Journey through a soundscape of snow-shrouded trees, silent saguaro cacti and white-out conditions.
David Holmes is a longtime giant of electronic music and a prolific film composer. He teams up with singer Raven Violet to create a politically charged album, Blind on a Galloping Horse.
There will be some seasonal chill in the air on Echoes as we near Christmas. But we’ll also hear new music from Peter Gabriel off his album i/o and Jean-Michel Jarre from Oxymoreworks.
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 from January and then backwards from December.
Guitarist Tom Caufield brings us an album without any guitar. Using synthesizers and a violinist, he channels the sound of progressive groups like Popol Vuh and Vangelis.
Kevin Keller’s Evensong leads the Echoes Top 25 for November, followed by Russell Walder, Brannan Lane, John Gregorius, & Sean O’Bryan Smith and 22 more great albums.
Winter is here with the Echoes December CD of the Month, David Arkenstone’s Winterlüde. It’s a seasonal album of all-original music to capture the spirit and essence of the chilled air.
It’s an Echoes Winterlüde when we hear acclaimed New Age artist David Arkenstone performing music from his new release, Winterlüde as well as his take on classic holiday tunes. It’s the seasonal concert of your dreams.
David Arkenstone has crafted an album that captures the mysticism, weather and sound of the season with Winterlüde with all original tone poems. It’s Echoes December CD of the Month.
It has been a great year for new music and we’ll pick out our Top 30 best albums of 2023 on Echoes. You might want to see who is number one, but you will love who is 30.