Dreams and More in Echoes Top 25 for January.The first month of the new year begins strongly with a Top Five that includes 3 CDs of the Month. At the top is this month’s pick, Sherry Finzer’s haunting Sanctuary III: Beyond the Dream. There’s last month’s pick, Wax Tailor’s propulsive chanson and Hollywood sound collage,…
The last monthly Echoes Top 25 of 2014 includes Wax Tailor’s Trip-Hop Symphony on top and Pink Floyd’s farewell on the bottom.
Today we unveil the Best of Echoes 2014. It’s a list that draws from across the Echoes spectrum, revealing the eclectic sound of the show within our framework of chilled moods.
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Wax Tailor discusses his origins as a DJ and the expansive themes of his music.
Philip Selway & Wax Tailor Lead Echoes November Top 25ECHOES TOP 25 FOR NOVEMBER 2014 Philip Selway – Weatherhouse (Sony Music Entertainment) Wax Tailor – Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra (Le Plan) Tim Farrell – Cascadia (Tim Farrell) Anja Lechner & Francois Couturier – Moderato Cantabile (ECM New Series) Orenda Fink – Blue Dream (Saddle Creek) Chad Lawson – The Chopin Variations (Hillset) Bonobo – The North Borders…
For most people, the lineage of DJ scratching begins about 1982 with artists like hip-hop DJ’s Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa. Those are the roots of French DJ/Producer Wax Tailor. But he’s also part of a much longer DJ tradition that goes back to fellow Frenchmen, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer. In the 1940s they…
Echoes Top 25 for October, 2014Does it get any more eclectic than this? 70s space rockers from Germany, minimalist dream-poppers from Austin; a DJ turned electro-folky from England, ambient chamber music from America, and new classical chamber music from Europe, acoustic guitarist from Doylestown, an electro-lounge player self-releasing his music and a drummer from one…
Echoes Top 25 for September, 2014This is our 300th Top 25 list. 12 months x 25 years of Echoes Progressive electronics make it to the head of the Echoes Top 25 for September with Tigerforest’s The Tides of Day and Night , the Echoes CD of the Month for September. Newcomers to the list include…
She was number one on Billboard in June and now she’s Number One at Echoes. Lana Del Rey’s “Ultraviolence” leads our Top 25 for August.The singer has turned in a fragile and alluring album that taps into the darker side of Echoes sonically and thematically. It was the CD of the Month in August and…
There’s some great CDs in the Echoes Top 25 for July. Leading the way is Yoed Nir’s CD of the Month, The Next Dream. He’s one of two cello albums to make the list. The other is first timer Maya Beiser with her album of cello covers, Uncovered.