It was a wild year for music on Echoes and we’ve sorted through the hundreds of new music releases to pick the Top 25 albums for 2018. There are familiar veteran acts and some exciting newcomers.
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Take a dive into 5 albums from The Best of Echoes 2018, So Far in the Echoes Podcast including albums by Talitha Rise, Khruangbin, Ian Boddy and Erik Wøllo, Klaus Schulze and Solomon Grey.
The Best of Echoes 2018. . . So Far is our Top 25 list of favorite albums of the year at the halfway point of the calendar. See the Complete list here including our possible surprise #1 Pick.
The Tide is high, the stars shine bright and the sun is rising in this edition of an all-instrumental Slow Flow Echoes with new music form Chronotope Project, Erik Wollo and a flute duet with Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland.
Erik Wøllo and Mark McGuire bring guitars back to Echoes Top 25 Erik Wøllo’s February CD of the Month, Timelines, leads Echoes Top 25. It’s a brilliant recording of layered guitar dreamscapes. Following close behind is our soon-to-be March CD of the Month, Mark McGuire’s Progressive Rock epic, Along the Way. You’ll be hearing more about…
It’s a cliché, I know, but as soon as an Erik Wøllo album starts, you know you are on a journey. It’s like the moments before take-off, only Wøllo’s ascent doesn’t throw you back in your seat with G-Force thrust. It’s a gentle rise into euphoric space. Timelines is a beautifully sculpted example of…
Various Artists – Ornamental (A Projekt Holiday Collection) I just got in my first Christmas album of the season and the tree-topper has been set high with Ornamental, a collection from the Projekt label. Best known for their dark ambient and Goth recordings, as well as great electronic releases from Steve Roach and Erik Wollo,…
Philadelphia’s Concert scene is heating up as the weather cools down. Here’s some of the concert appearances in the next 9 days with a lot of Echoes artists coming in. See Ryuichi Sakamoto listing below to win a free pair of tix and his new double CD Playing the Piano/Out of Noise. RECOMMENDED THIS WEEK…
Erik Wollo’s Gateway, our June CD of the Month, leads the way for the Echoes Top 25 for June. Erik Wollo’s Gateway tops the Echoes Top 25 for June. That’s no surprise since it was the Echoes CD of the Month. But following right behind it is Carbon Based Lifeforms and Interloper, another great album…
Veteran Norwegian Composer places 4th Echoes CD of the Month. Erik Wollo is an architect of ambience, a poet of electronic landscapes. Employing “cinematic” as an adjective for this music is a tiresome cliche, and it’s been applied to everything Wollo has recorded. Yet, on his latest CD, Gateway, There’s no denying the way his…