Space is the place this year and Vangelis has the album for it. It’s called Juno to Jupiter and it is in the classic Vangelis mode. We’ll also hear music from E.Vax, which is Evan Peter Mast.
Stomp on 2021 and blow it out of your mind when we dance in 2022 with a Downtempo Ambient New Year’s Eve Soundscape. All systems are plugged in and the chill is turned up to 11.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Belgian ambient composer Dirk Serries. He teams up with saxophonist Trosta on an album of ambient improvisations called Island On The Moon.
It’s the fourth Icon of Echoes, Dead Can Dance. This duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry have created some of the most transcendent, time-shifting music of the late 20th century.
This list is not like other lists. All “best of” lists are circumscribed by what music the listers were exposed to and personal tastes. In our case, it’s constrained by what we play on Echoes.
Music from another disciple of Windham Hill guitarist and founder, Will Ackerman. His name is Randal Meek, and Ackerman produced his album, Longings. We’ll also hear from Karavan Sarai.
Electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream are #3 of 30 Icons of Echoes. In a special two-hour show, we’ll hear the Echoes Tangerine Dream Documentary as well as music from across the band’s career.
Steve Roach was voted #2 of 30 Icons of Echoes. John Diliberto looks across the career of this influential artist who has gone from Berlin School sequencers to techno-tribal and back again.
On the first in our Icons of Echoes series, we’ll hear from our number one Icon, Brian Eno. He has influenced our sonic landscape for nearly a half-century, from ambient to abstraction and beyond.
The January CD of the Month is Nocturnes by Ben Jackson recording as The Great Northern. He usually produces country and pop in Nashville, but we’ll hear him as an electronic ambient composer.