Echoes Top 25 for April finds Tangerine Dream’s “Supernormal” at the top, followed by downtempo albums from Sonomad and Chandeen.
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Echoes Top 25 for April 2015
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Echoes Top 25 for March 2015
Echoes Top 25 for March finds Lanterna’s CD of the Month, “Backyards” on top. It’s followed by April’s CD pick, Tangerine Dream’s “Supernormal” and February’s selection, Fernwood’s “Arcadia.”
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Wordless Echoes – Earth Day Dreaming
Earth Day Dreaming is a six-hour instrumental soundscape inspired by the natural world. We’ll hear environmental sounds turned into music, and compositions that evoke those natural scenes.
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Wordless Echoes – A Global Village Symphony
A six-hour Global Village Symphony drawn from musical traditions around the world, featuring Afro Celt Sound System, Yo-Yo Ma, Ali Akbar Khan, Huayucaltia, David Parsons, and many more.
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Wordless Echoes – Tangerine Dreaming
A six-hour soundscape inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream. It includes music from Tangerine Dream’s album Supernormal, the Echoes CD of the Month for April 2015. You’ll also hear classic T-Dream, excerpts from solo albums of band members, and music from artists inspired by Tangerine Dream.
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Big Ears Festival 2015
The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville brought together an array of musicians from the bleeding edge of the avant-garde to the cutting edge of rock and folk. Kronos Quartet presided over this meeting ground of Vanguard music that included Laurie Anderson, Wu Man, Terry Riley, Rhiannon Giddens and much much more.
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Echoes Top 25 for February 2015
Fernwood and Lanterna bring an Ambient Americana hue to the Echoes Top 25 for February. Both were Echoes CDs of the Month in February and March respectively. Rebekka Karijord, Zola Jesus and Shadowlands among the artists making their Echoes Top 25 debuts.
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Echoes Top 25 for January 2015
Dreams and More in Echoes Top 25 for January.The first month of the new year begins strongly with a Top Five that includes 3 CDs of the Month. At the top is this month’s pick, Sherry Finzer’s haunting Sanctuary III: Beyond the Dream. There’s last month’s pick, Wax Tailor’s propulsive chanson and Hollywood sound collage,…
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New Music from Purity Ring
Purity Ring Slip Another Album on Their Fingers Purity Ring are a Canadian electronic music duo originally from Edmonton with singer Megan James and electronic musician Corin Roddick. I saw them at the Mountain Oasis Music Festival in 2013 where they were a last minute replacement for Tricky. Although they were dwarfed by the large…
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Echoes Top 25 for December 2014
The last monthly Echoes Top 25 of 2014 includes Wax Tailor’s Trip-Hop Symphony on top and Pink Floyd’s farewell on the bottom.