Agnes Obel’s Philharmonics Heads Echoes Top 25 for January Ambient chamber music is big on January’s Top 25. Agnes Obel leads it with her delicately serene and haunting debut, Philharmonics, which sets her voice in a chamber bed of piano and cello. I’m sure this album will be in my Top 5 at the end…
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Echoes Top 25 for December-Christmas is Still Here!
Christmas Music Tops the Tree of the Echoes Top 25 for December December is always a strange time for the Echoes Top 25. Seasonal programming and Best of Year shows skew the playlists towards Christmas sounds and older materiel. But new music does get played nevertheless. Heading up our December list, it’s no surprise to…
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The Best of Echoes 2010 Listener Poll.
Here it is, the Best of Echoes 2010 Listener Poll. These are albums you thought were the best Echoes CDs this past year. #1: Brian Eno Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Warp Records) Hammock Chasing After Shadows…Living with the Ghosts (Hammock Music) Enigma Platinum Collection (EMI/Virgin) Erik Wollo Gateway (Projekt) Carbon Based…
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25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2010.
ECHOES PICKS THEIR TOP 25 FOR 2010 The Echoes 2010 Listener Poll is in full swing, but this is what we think was the best music played on Echoes in 2010, compiled by the Echoes staff of John Diliberto, Kimberly Haas and Jeff Towne. Twelve of them were Echoes CD of the Month selections in…
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Echoes November Top 25
Mark Preston’s Nature and Design Tops the Echoes Top 25 for November. Two electronic works top the
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The Best of Echoes 2010 & Diliberto’s Best
The Best of Echoes 2010 Poll is LIVE! We’ve plugged in the Best of Echoes 2010 Poll. It’s been an interesting year for music and we’d like to know what put a buzz in your ears from the Echoes soundscape. You can pick your five fave Echoes albums and you ‘ll be entered a drawing…
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Acoustic guitar dreams tops Echoes Top 25 for October.
African singers, Resonator guitarists, laptop jockeys and Japanese icons hit the Echoes October Top 25. Todd Boston’s CD of the Month, Alive, topped our Top 25 for October. You can read a review of the beautiful album and hear tracks from it here. While last month saw a rise of electronic music, this month sees…
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Echoes September Top 25: Plugged In
It’s a plugged in Echoes Top 25 for September. Eight of the Top 10 are electronic albums or electronically enhanced like Matthew Schoening’s Elements and Zoe Keating’s Into the Trees, both looping cello CDs by the way. But acoustic music still has an impact, with Portico Quartet.. oops! They are mostly acoustic, but they use…
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Echoes August Top 25
Matthew Schoening leads the looping cellists to head of Echoes August Top 25 Summer closes with another strong Echoes Top 25 headed up by our August CD of the Month, Matthew Schoening’s Elements. Not far behind it is our CD of the Month from July, Carmen Rizzo’s Looking Through Leaves, something we’ll be doing in…
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Echoes July Top 25
Carmen Rizzo’s Looking Through Leaves tops Echoes July Top 25 Judging from this month’s Top 25, summer didn’t provide much of a slowdown in good music this year on Echoes. Topping the list of course was our July CD of the Month, Carmen Rizzo’s Looking Through Leaves, a perfect summer CD of dream pop. Link…