The Best New Age (Ambient, Chant) Album category of the Grammys has always been fraught with problems. We go through all 39 winners and rank them.
Reviews & Commentary
All-Time New Age Grammy Winners Ranked
Tag: synthesizer
Coming Up
Tuesday, Feb 18, 2025 – New Music from AeTopus
New music by AeTopus from Bellingham, Washington. His latest album takes electronics into off-center rhythms and melodies that begin in abstraction and evolve into quiet grandeur.
CD of the Month
Echoes Feb 2025 CD of the Month: Dieter Spears
Dieter Spears takes you back to 80s electronics, disco beats, and ambient moods on his latest album, Late Day Summer Breeze. It’s Echoes February CD of the Month.
Playlists
Weekend, Feb 1-2, 2025 – Programs 2504A & 2504B
Explore the Big Ears Festival 2025 with founder Ashley Capps plus music from Echoes artists appearing at the festival including Steve Roach, Michael Rother, and SUSS.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 January: deepspace on Top
deepspace’s Neon Blue Utopia tops the Echoes January 2025 list, followed by Sasha, Stellarium, Bill Nelson, a collaboration between Immersion and SUSS, and 20 other great CDs.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Big Ears Festival 2025
Coming Up
Thursday, February 13, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, the premiere of a single by Message to Bears, the musical alias of English multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander, who blends ambient, folk, post-rock, and electronic influences.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025 – New Music by Numun
New music from Numün. That’s a trio that includes Bob Holmes from SUSS and they’re making a pretty spacey ambient music on their latest, Opening. John Diliberto opens it on Echoes.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025 – Music by Kelly Lee Owens
We enter a dream state with Kelly Lee Owens. She’s an electronic musician and singer who hovers between dreampop and EDM. John Diliberto drops a couple of tracks off her album Dreamstate.
Playlists
Monday, Jan 27, 2025 – Echoes Program 2504A
Explore the Big Ears Festival 2025 with founder Ashley Capps plus music from Echoes artists appearing at the festival including Steve Roach, Michael Rother, and SUSS.