World Fusion, Dream Pop and Ambient Americana in Echoes Top 25 for May
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 name, was a CD of the Month in March. But surrounding her are two veteran Echoes artists, one of who goes back even further than the show. Carl Weingarten’s beautiful chamber Americana journey, Life Under Stars is our current CD of the Month in June. And leading the pack is Hans Christian’s Hidden Treasures, our May CD of the Month selection, an album of cross-cultural ecstasy. You can read about all of those and hear tracks by following the links above.
Newcomers to the Echoes Top 25 include Stumbeleine, 9Bach, Phox, Hauschka, Ben Cosgrove and Michael Barry-Rec. Here’s thecomplete list.
ECHOES TOP 25 FOR MAY 2014
- Hans Christian – Hidden Treasures (Allemande Music)
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- Lyla Foy - Mirrors the Sky (Subpop Records)
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- Carl Weingarten – Life Under Stars (Mutiphase Records)
- Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines (Mercury Classics)
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- S. Carey – Range of Light (Jagjaguwar)
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- Eno & Hyde – Someday World (Warp Records)
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- 9Bach – Tincian (Real World)
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- Beck- Morning Phase (Capital)
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- v/a – Passages – Framed by Nova (Ultimae)
- Stumbleine – Dissolver (Monotreme Records)
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- Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo – EC12 (DiN)
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- Thus Owls – Turning Rocks (Secret City Records)
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- Marissa Nadler - July (Sacred Bones)
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- Tom Kerstens’ G Plus Ensemble – Utopia – (Real World)
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- Phox - Phox (Partisan Records)
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- Erik Scott - And the Earth Bleeds (Erik Scott)
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- Hauschka – Abandoned City (Temporary Residence)
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- Michael Barry-Rec – Continuum (Michael Barry-Rec)
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- Ben Cosgrove – Field Studies (Ben Cosgrove)
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- Deepernet – Impossible Landscape (Spotted Peccary)
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- Ludovico Einaudi – In a Time Lapse (The Remixes) (Ponderosa Music & Art)
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- Jennifer Zulli – Goddess Rising (Jennifer Zulli)
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- Cinema 12 - Cinema 12 (Cinema 12)
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- Bluetech – Cosmic Dubs (Native State Records)
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- Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso (Partisan)
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