In Echoes Top 25 for June, Aukai’s debut recording leads the way. It was also the Echoes CD of the Month. He’s followed by SHEL – Just Crazy Enough, Emmy the Great – Second Love, and Haroula Rose’s Here the Blue River. See the complete list.
Marissa Nadler’s latest music video for “Janie in Love” is as eerie and captivating as the track itself. Her new album, Strangers, is out now on Sacred Bones Records and Bella Union Records.
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Steve Kimock has played with just about every member of The Grateful Dead. With his own groups, he plays pays extended guitar centric compositions full of improvisation, and he’s often mentioned in the same breadth as bands like Phish and The String Cheese Incident. But don’t dare call his group a jam band.
Pierre Bensusan is such a finger-style guitar legend that Michael Hedges even named a song for him. Echoes revisits a concert with this legendary guitarist.
At the half-way point of the year, we pick the albums that excited us the most thus far in 2016. Miranda Lee Richard’s “Echoes of the Dreamtime” tops the list of 25, followed by All India Radio, Hammock, Radiohead and more.
Steve Kimock is a veteran of the jam band scene, although he hates that term. He’s played with just about every member of the Grateful Dead. He talks about his new album of rustic ambient guitar, The Last Danger of Frost on Echoes.
Dave Preston is a guitarist who makes the kind of ambient guitar music that would find him in the company of Robert Fripp, Jeff Pearce or Ashra, but that same music also found him in the company of Justin Timberlake.
Singer-songwriter Haroula Rose’s Here the Blue River is an album of poetic beauty, both in the lyrics and the music. Its title is from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem, and it leads to the water imagery that dominates the metaphorical language of the album.
Singer-songwriter Haroula Rose’s Here the Blue River is an album of poetic beauty, both in the lyrics and the music. Its title is from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem, and it leads to the water imagery that dominates the metaphorical language of the album.
Hammock’s Echoes CD of the Month, “Everything and Nothing” leads the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Haroula Rose’s “Here the Blue River,” Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise” and Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool.” See the complete list.