Echoes Top 25 for February includes CD of the Month by Poppy Ackroyd, the duo Overcoats, electronic artist Lane 8, Moby, a reissue from Ben Vaughn, Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo and Al Di Meola.
AeTopus is the name used by Bryan Tewell Hughes to create his ethno-electronic music soundscapes. He won a Zone Music Award in 2012. He has a new album called Totem Totum.
On The Longest Sleep Through the Darkest Days, UK ambient band Winterlight create an enveloping and deep journey in the quiet spaces of landscape and mind. It’s Echoes March CD of the Month.
We talk with electro-pop pioneer Thomas Dolby. The musician who had a hit in the 80s with “Blinded Me With Science is now a professor Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute.
From Indie Post Rock to Psy-trance remixes, we’ll hear The American Dollar’s latest single “Everything” and Liquid Bloom going even more psychedelic on Regen Liquid Remixes.
Tom Caufield’s albums are conceptual works that take the acoustic guitar beyond what you’d expect including works for electronics and chamber orchestra. He comes in to play live on Echoes.
Guitarist Kaki King is turning out to be one of the most innovative musicians of the last quarter century. See her new video for the song, “Bruises” which goes deeper than that.
Aukai is the vehicle of Markus Sieber. He performs in a chant duo called Mirabai Ceiba, but Aukai operates in an area of pristine sound, rustic roots, and soulful melodies.
The Echoes Top 25 for January are hear and the year is starting strong with Gracie and Rachel at the lead. Dig into this list of 25 great albums that should be on your playlist.