The Best of Echoes 2021. We pick out our 30 Favorite albums of the year covering the range of the Echoes Soundscape. This is a Best of list like no other. 2021 Sucked! This list doesn’t.
We visit the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project, EMEAPP. It’s a museum of electronic instruments from the earliest devices through Keith Emerson’s keyboard rig and beyond.
On An Echoes Christmas, it’s a seasonof the imagination. We create a soundscape for that long winter’s nap; or for wrapping presents and putting together those last-minute toys.
A Nordic Cosmic Christmas with ambient guitarist Erik Wøllo live. He composed a suite that evokes his childhood home in the Norwegian mountains, with gorgeous melodies & evocative atmospheres.
The ambient jazz trio Twilight Archive traverses a swampy landscape on a new album called Recent Detours. We’ll also hear from William Tyler and Marisa Anderson’s Lost Futures.
We visit the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project, EMEAPP. It’s a museum of electronic instruments from the earliest devices through Keith Emerson’s keyboard rig and beyond.
Echoes Top 25 for November 2021. Marconi Union’s, Signals, the November CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by frostlake, Mark Dwane, Rufus du Sol, and 21 other great CDs.
Kevin Keller took a challenge to record an album in one month. He enlisted his fans, running a daily blog where he considered their suggestions. The results were his new album, Shimmer.
Echoes Remembers. We lost many artists from the world of Echoes this year. We remember some whom we’ve lost, including David Darling, Chick Corea, Malcom Cecil and Jon Hassell.