Tag: Hammock

Echoes November Top 25 – Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy WaterSky.

Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Echoes CD of the Month, WaterSky, Heads Up Echoes Top 25. Ambient and Ambient-tinged rock dominate Echoes Top 25 for December.  Just in the Top 10, you’ve got a diversity of ambient sounds that reveals just how broad and embracing this genre can be.  It’s not a stream.  It’s an…

Hammock Swings Out 2012 with CD of the Month

Ambient Post-Rock Avatars Transcend their Roots Hear Hammock interviewed on Echoes Tonight 03/06/2013. In an immersive experience where time loses meaning and there is no up nor down, it takes a quantum physicist’s sense of time and an astronaut’s sense of space to navigate.  Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson are neither scientists nor pilots, but…

Top Ten Albums of 2012 by John Diliberto.

Deep moods and a couple of quirky releases highlight John Diliberto’s Top Ten Albums for 2012. 2012 will be a year marked by really good albums, but not necessarily groundbreaking, earth shattering or definitive works that place any one release ahead of the pack.  There are a few albums I could’ve picked as number one,…

Rhian Sheehan vs Hammock

Rhian Sheehan is a wonderful ambient composer from New Zealand.  His album, Standing in Silence was one of our favorites on Echoes a couple of years ago with his mixing of found sound and synthesizer cycles.   He’s just collaborated with one of our favorite ambient guitar bands, Hammock, from Nashville. The original song is from…

Echoes May Top 25_Hammock Swings To Top

Hammock’s Chasing After Shadows…Living with the Ghosts Haunts the Top of Echoes Top 25 for May. Three Echoes CDs of the Month are 1-2-3 in the Echoes Top 25.  Hammock from May, Ludovico Einaudi‘s Nightbook from April and Robert Rich‘s Ylang from March.  It looks like the Top 25 from 2010 should be pretty good.…

Hammock-Not Swinging, But Soaring

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20100428.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHammock’s Chasing After Shadows… Living With Ghosts Echoes May CD of the Month You can hear an Audio version of this with Hammock’s music There are Hammocks you swing in.  They lull you into a hazy dream on a hot summer day.  Hammock the band might have the…

Echoes Top 25 for July: Marconi Union first Download recording to crack Top 5

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080730.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAmbient chamber music still dominates the Echoes Top 25 for August, but for the first time, a download only album cracks the the Echoes Top 5. That CD is the purely ambient A Lost Connection by Marconi Union. Their album, Distance, from 3 years ago was among our…