The Album Leaf’s Between Waves washes over the Echoes’ Top 25 for September.ECHOES TOP 25 for September 2016 The Album Leaf – Between Waves (Relapse Records) Skye & Ross – Skye & Ross (Cooking Vinvyl) William Tyler – Modern Country (Merge Records) Tigerforest – Songs of Reverence (Lemongrass Music) Mutual Benefit – Skip a Sinking Stone (Mom & Pop Music) …
New music by Skye & Ross who are two-thirds of Morcheeba and the latest album by David Arkenstone who goes back to his fantasy roots on The Fairy Garden.
William Tyler’s Modern Country leads Echoes’ Top 25 for AugustECHOES TOP 25 for August 2016 William Tyler – Modern Country (Merge Records) On Dead Waves – On Dead Waves (Mute) Marissa Nadler – Strangers (Sacred Bones Records) Aukai – Aukai (Aukai Music) Gileah Taylor – Songs for Late at Night Vol 2 (Casa Coraggio) Tor – Blue Book (Loci Records) Symbion Project…
Technology & Nature Merge in Video for Edamame’s “Tree Shadows.”Edamame is food for your ears. It’s the moniker of Ed Harris out of Chicago and he’s released ten albums in the last 4 years. His latest is Ochre. Harris uses a lot of found sound and natural environments in this music that might be called…
Massive Attack’s new video for “The Spoils” soothes and intrigues.
OnDeadWaves self-titeled CD of the Month debut Leads the Echoes Top 25 for July and ex-Tangerine Dreamer Peter Baumann’s first album in 33 years makes the Top 10
The Album Leaf was among the first ambient rock groups. They have a new album coming but we go back to a 2010 performance on Echoes.
In Echoes Top 25 for June, Aukai’s debut recording leads the way. It was also the Echoes CD of the Month. He’s followed by SHEL – Just Crazy Enough, Emmy the Great – Second Love, and Haroula Rose’s Here the Blue River. See the complete list.
Hammock’s Echoes CD of the Month, “Everything and Nothing” leads the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Haroula Rose’s “Here the Blue River,” Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise” and Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool.” See the complete list.
Famed French synthesist Jean-Michel Jarre of “Oxygene” fame releases second volume of electronica collaborations with Artists ranging from Cyndi Lauper to The Orb.