It’s the Best of Echoes 2021. In a tumultuous year, John Diliberto finds albums that will bring you peace, joy and adventure. Then we’ll hear from our 12 CDs of the Month.
The Holidays are coming and we have your soundtrack with a new collection called Winter Tales, the Echoes December CD of the Month. Enjoy new works for the season from artists you already love.
On A Slow Flow Echoes, a space music epic by David Wright. The Lost Colony is a soundtrack for a graphic novel by Matt Howarth. We’ll also hear something by Comit from An Ocean of Thoughts.
We’ll hear music by Immersion. Colin Newman from Wire and Malka Spigel from Minimal Compact collaborate with the likes of Ulrich Schnauss and Laetitia Sadier from Stereolab.
Echoes Top 25 for November 2021. Marconi Union’s, Signals, the November CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by frostlake, Mark Dwane, Rufus du Sol, and 21 other great CDs.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro teams up with slide guitarist Sonny Landreth and we’ll hear some deep ambient guitar by Jonas Munk, who records as Manual.
Kevin Keller took a challenge to record an album in one month. He enlisted his fans, running a daily blog where he considered their suggestions. The results were his new album, Shimmer.
Guitarist Will Ackerman, founder of Windham Hill Records, horn player Jeff Oster and multi-instrumentalist Tom Eaton have gotten together for a new age nostalgic album called Brothers.
Echoes Remembers. We lost many artists from the world of Echoes this year. We remember some whom we’ve lost, including David Darling, Chick Corea, Malcom Cecil and Jon Hassell.
We talk to Marconi Union, a true 21st century band. The British electronic trio has a new album out that finds them tapping a more rhythmic, drum driven sound, even though there are no drums.