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.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for February: Poppy Ackroyd on Top
Tag: Space Music
Playlists
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018-Echoes Program 1809C
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.
Playlists
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018: Pink Floyd’s 45th
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the most influential albums of the last 50 years. On its 45th anniversary we create two new versions of the 1973 original.
CD of the Month
March 2017 CD of the Month: Winterlight
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.
Playlists
Friday, February 23rd, 2018-Echoes Program 1808E
On a Slow Flow Echoes we hear new music by Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning from Eirlandia and Mystical Sun’s Overview Effect.
Playlists
Tuesday, February 20th, 2018-Echoes Program 1808B
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.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Forrest Fang & Jóhann Jóhannsson
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Composer Forrest Fang talks about his ambient world music soundscapes and we remember Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson with a 2009 Echoes Interview. Jóhannsson died on February 10, 2018.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Engineers Mark Peters
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
We talk with guitarist Mark Peters in Echoes Podcast. He’s the guitarist and leader of the dreamy shoegaze band Engineers, but on his own, he creates a more ambient, instrumental sound.
Playlists
Tuesday February 6th-Echoes Program 1806B
Composer Forrest Fang manipulates western, eastern and toy instruments along with flowerpots into surreal soundscapes. He talks about his new album, Scenes from a Ghost Train, on Echoes.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for January 2018: Gracie and Rachel at the top.
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.