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.
Top 25 for June 2014. Guitars Pluck at the Top of the Echoes Top 25 for June Three guitarists release one of their strongest albums this past month. Topping the list is Carl Weingarten’s CD of the Month For June, Life Under Stars, a beautiful pastoral tinged Americana travelogue. John Luttrell is the newest of…
The Echoes Top 25 for May continues a trend towards chilled out vocal music but the top three slots are held by three CD of the Month picks, one vocal, two instrumental. Lyla Foy is a relatively new artist who used to record as Wall. Her Mirrors the Sky album, the first under her own…
Dream-pop Dominates Echoes Top Ten in April The year is 25% done and here’s some of the music that’s been bubbling to the top of the Echoes playlists during April. Of course, Lyla Foy’s April CD of the Month, Mirrors the Sky is number one and deservedly so. Look for live performances and interviews with Foy…
Hans Christian was one half of the group Rasa with singer Kim Waters, but before that he was a solo artist mixing his cello with electronics and other exotica. He returns to solo form on a new CD called Hidden Treasures. It’s an album of lush orchestrations featuring his cello, the Indian sarangi and sitara,…
60’s Psych-Progressions, 70’s Krautrock, New World Fusion and Ambient Chamber music Tonight on Echoes. I must be feeling a bit nostalgic today. I find myself going back to some of my earliest musical influences and to the early days of Echoes. From the 1960s, I’ve got a song by Donovan, an artist who I think…
After yesterday’s blast from the past for our 24th anniversary we fast forward into the Echoes of 2013 even if some of it includes a song from 50 years ago. Back in 1963 Barbara Lewis had a hit with the song “Hello Stranger” with backing from The Dells. That title may not ring a bell…
Una is interviewed tonight on Echoes. Trip-Hop music of the 1990s brought several worlds together. In groups like Portishead, Massive Attack and Morcheeba, you could hear elements of hip-hop, electronic music, lounge moods and torch song singing. Una has taken those sounds in a different direction over the last six years, adding jazz, film scores…
Hear Hooverphonic Interviewed on Echoes tonight. Hooverphonic is a band that’s been at the borders of popularity for the last 15 years or so. They’ve actually had several hits in Europe and you might’ve heard their music in movies like Stealing Beauty and on TV ads for Volkswagen and Motorola. This Belgian group started out…