Echoes Top 25 for November 2020. Digitonal, our CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Ian Boddy, Steve Roach, Ane Brun (twice!) Tom Caufield and 19 other great CDs.
Best Of
Echoes November 2020 Top 25: Digitonal at the Top
Tag: synthesizer
Coming Up
Tuesday, Dec 15, 2020 – Alex Maas and Time Traveler
New music by Alex Maas, lead singer of the psychedelic band The Black Angels. He goes more pastoral on an album called Luca. We’ll also hear from Time Traveler, the new persona of Eleon.
Playlists
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2020 – Echoes Program 2048B
Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds talks about his new album, Some Kind of Peace. He pares-down to a simpler sound for music of introspection. Join us with Ólafur Arnalds on Echoes.
CD of the Month
December, 2020 Echoes CD of the Month: Ane Brun
Singer Ane Brun releases a perfect pair of CDs, After the Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow, exploring themes of loss and existence. Both are the Echoes CD of the Month.
Coming Up
Weekend, Dec 12-13, 2020 – Best of Echoes & Kevin Keller
The Best of Echoes 2020. In a bad year there was great music. Hear 20 of the Top 30 albums for 2020 and then hear an interview with Kevin Keller who is on that list.
Playlists
Weekend, Nov 28-29, 2020 – Programs 2047A & 2047B
German electronic music legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius was a founder of Cluster and Harmonia. Lately, he’s gone acoustic and has even recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon classical label.
Coming Up
Friday, Dec 11, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes we go through Portals, a collection of electronic music sub-titled “A Kosmische Journey,” nodding to its roots in 70s German Space music. We’ll also hear Liminal Drifter.
Playlists
Friday, Nov 27, 2020 – Echoes Program 2047E
New music by Drogtech, a Polish musician creating ambient soundscapes on his new album, Fractured. We’ll also hear from Karavan Sarai, the world fusion electronic project.
Coming Up
Thursday, Dec 10, 2020 – Gracie and Rachel & Harold Budd R.I.P.
Gracie and Rachel’s latest album is Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong. They talk music, anger, and pandemic. Then we remember composer Harold Budd who passed on 12/7 with an hour special.
Playlists
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2020 – Echoes Program 2047C
Steve Roach was voted #2 of 30 Icons of Echoes. John Diliberto looks across the career of this influential artist who has gone from Berlin School sequencers to techno-tribal and back again.