Echoes Top 25 for December is led by the CD of the month, Hiroki Okano’s Return to the Soul, followed by Gracie and Rachel’s debut album, Prequell, Tori Amos, FLOW, and more.
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Echoes Top 25 for December 2017: Hiroki Okano Returns to the Top
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Echoes Podcast: Gracie and Rachel Album Review
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The debut album by Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles is the Echoes CD of the Month for January 2018. Here a review of this beautiful chamber pop masterpiece in the Echoes Podcast.
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Sufjan Stevens Video for Life With Dignity
Sufjan Stevens, an artist who pushes the envelope with ethereal arrangements while still making evocative songs, releases a video from his Greatest Gift album called “Life with Dignity.”
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Monday, January 8th, 2018-Echoes Program 1802A
It’s the return of Irish singer Moya Brennan, a founding member of the group Clannad she comes in with her family band and Cormac DaBarra to play their best live Echoes set ever. including “Theme from Harry’s Game.”.
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Echoes in Memoriam 2017: Those Who Left the Planet
As we end the year, John Diliberto looks back on Echoes musicians who left the planet in 2017. They range from the iconic to the obscure, but all left their vibrations on the planet.
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Friday, December 29th, 2017-Echoes Program 1752E
We’ll hear music by The National. Their album, Sleep Well Beast, is nominated for some Grammy awards. We’ll also hear a classic by Tangerine Dream going back to their 1976 album, Stratosfear.
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Thursday, December 21st, 2017-Echoes Program 1751D
Get ready for the big chill on an Echoes Winter Solstice. It’s a winter fantasy with no Christmas Carols, but lots of music taking you into the celestial side of the season.
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Thursday, December 14th, 2017 – Echoes Program 1750D
St. Vincent’s new album of twisted rock motifs is called Masseduction and it explores new terrain in her original sound. We’ll also hear from one of dozens of new soundtracks by Bear McCreary, this one for the movie “Unrest.”
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The Best of Echoes 2017-The Definitive 25 Albums
There is no other Year End music list like Echoes Best of of 2017. Ambient Requiems. Deep space journeys, chamber pop, progrock epics, EDM journeys and world fusion. See who made the list.
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Friday, December 8th, 2017-Echoes Program 1749E
On the next Echoes, it’s music from a former Sneaker Pimp when we hear Lucas Oswald’s dreampop album, Whet as in whet your blade. We’ll also hear the duo called Kllo. It glows on Echoes.