David Darling & Hans Christian top the Echoes January Top 25, followed by Evening Ocean, Hollan Holmes, Bill Nelson, Peter Gabriel, and 20 more great albums.
We put Charlie Cunningham in the picture with his new album, Frame. This English singer song-writer has echoes of John Martyn and Nick Drake and atmospheres of Brian Eno and Harold Budd.
Guitarist Tom Caufield brings us an album without any guitar. Using synthesizers and a violinist, he channels the sound of progressive groups like Popol Vuh and Vangelis.
Get close to the one you love for Echoes of the Heart, a Valentine’s Soundscape. John Diliberto brings you songs of love and sounds of sensuality for Valentine’s Day on Echoes.
Moby covers a song by Cream, and it’s not one of the big ones. He takes a haunting track from Disraeli Gears and turns it slowcore. We’ll also hear something from Beautiful Chorus.
Listen to looping guitar live when we hear Italian guitarist Fabio Mittino. He has a highly sophisticated looping and processing system and some burning leads that he puts into his sound.
Brannan Lane, John Gregorius and Sean O’Bryan Smith come from different musical worlds – from deep country and western to deep ambience. But they’ve gotten together for an album called Emergence.
Take a trip into sequencer delirium with our February CD of the Month, The Desert Winds of Change by Steve Roach. Then hear Ambiences in Black as we explore the other side of the cultural divide.
Recent music by new wave pioneers, Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark. This electronic duo is still creating sophisticated electronic pop in the 21st century. Their latest album is Bauhaus Staircase.