Forrest Fang started out as a violinist, but somewhere along the path he turned towards the weird, picking up instruments from around the world like the Chinese gu cheng, the Turkish lavta lute Vietnamese dan bau, Tibetan bells and more.
The Echoes Top 25 for January includes the CD of the Month by Contact, as well as last month’s pick, Enya, along with new releases by Tuxedomoon, Ane Brun and Tranceology.
On the next Slow Flow Echoes Karsh Kale returns with a new album of electro-Indian grooves called Up.
Spin into the New Year on seductive grooves and ambient moods the surreal lounge of Echoes will wind you out of the old and into the New Year with Jean-Michel Jarre, Ben Neill, Tangerine Dream, Sonomad, Morcheeba and more.
Echoes Top 25 for December includes CD of the Month from Enya and seasonal albums, Smoke Fairies’ Wild WInter and Bryan Carrigan’s Fall Into Winter
While we’re in the midst of the 12 Days of Christmas, John Diliberto has 12 months of Echoes CD of the Month picks.
Echoes listeners have voted for their favorite albums of 2015. See the results in The Best of Echoes 2015 Listener Poll
Echoes host John Diliberto has picked his Top 25 albums of 2015. They range from dream pop to sequencer dervishes to ambient chamber music to fusion and beyond.
It’s another amazing month of music at Echoes with Kevin Keller’s magnificent CD of the Month, La Strada, leading the Echoes Top 25 for November. But check out some of the others like the #2 album, a wonderful collection of melodic electronics called Autumn Time Volume 3.
Coming up on the next Echoes it’s new music by Low. The band that specializes in slowly moving rock gets a little less slow on their new album, Ones and Sixes.