Veteran English synthesist Ian Boddy’s As Above So Below is a masgterwork of modern electronics with a classical touch. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for January.
New recordings from Tom Caufield, Carl Weingarten & Catherine Marie Charlton, and Matt Borghi join our December CD of the Month, Erik Scott’s In the Company of Clouds, on the Echoes Top 25 for December.
Ed Harris is another musician who was raised on metal but went into ambient electronic music instead. As Edamame uses field recordings made on his phone for some percussive sounds samples of birds chirping and outside chatter.
Christmas becomes serene with Sonic Seasonings. The British duo Smoke Fairies play their original Christmas songs form their album Wild Winter and harp Guitarist Muriel Anderson plucks through seaosnal favorites and originals.
On an Echoes Christmas Soundscape get the sugar plums dancing with music from Smoke Fairies “Wild Winter,” SHEL’s “Winter Fairyland” and Tom Caufield’s “I Heard It Was Christmas Day.”