Echoes Top 25 for July 2021. Lanterna’s Hidden Drives, the July CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Morcheeba, Winterlight, Bill Nelson, and 21 other great CDs.
We dream. Echoes takes us on an odyssey of dreams from surreal fantasies to images of love and memories of psychosis. But don’t worry. It’s only a dream on Echoes.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear music by electronic artist Craig Padilla and guitarist Marvin Allen. Their album Strange Gravity taps into a retro-space music sound.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Loga Ramin Torkian, one half of the Persian fusion group, Niyaz. He has a new solo album out of micro-tonal guitar and cello called Brink of Absolute.
A new collaboration from guitarist Will Ackerman, trumpeter Jeff Oster, and keyboardist Tom Eaton. You might recognize them from their solo projects, the band FLOW and Windham Hill Records.
Idiosyncratic folk-rocker Sufjan Stevens has a five volume set of deeply ambient compositions called Convocations. It’s partly a response to deaths in the family and the pandemic.
Billie Eilish’s latest album, Happier Than Ever, defies pop standards by being low-key, sonically sparse and pillow-talki intimate. We’ll hear a track from that, as well as new music by Erik Wøllo
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, but she’s going even further afield than her father. We’ll hear a track from Love Letters PS with her sister, Norah Jones.
We hear some of the last music created by Harold Budd. The ambient artist passed last December, but he left his soundtrack to HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. We’ve got a track from that.
We dream. Echoes takes us on an odyssey of dreams from surreal fantasies to images of love and memories of psychosis. But don’t worry. It’s only a dream on Echoes.