Echoes Top 25 for November: Bombay Dub Tops

World music fusions bookend the Echoes Top 25 for November as electronic artists and acoustic revisionists dominate the list.  Bombay Dub Orchestra, our November CD of the Month, tops the list, (read a full review)  followed closely by the independent release from Vic Hennegan, Aqua Vista his homage to space music.  You can find out more about that CD in Hennegan’s Echo Location.   Fernwood’s global Americana chamber music came in high based on their wonderful live performance for Thanksgiving.   You can hear and read more about them in an Echo Location.   Expect to hear more about John Gregorius, whose #5 CD will be number one in December as our Echoes CD of the Month (read review and Echo Location).   Sumner McKane remains strong as does General Fuzz.  Check out the Echoes Blog for profiles, music and Echo Locations on many of these artists.

 ECHOES TOP 25

NOVEMBER 2008

 

1.	Bombay Dub Orchestra	3 Cities	Six Degrees Records
2.	Vic Hennegan	Aqua Vista	Alien Tribe Records
3.	Fernwood	Almeria	Self Released
4.	Anja Lechner and Vasillis Tsabropoulos	Melos	ECM Records
5.	John Gregorius	Heaven and Earth	Spotted Peccary
6.	Sumner McKane	What A Great Place to Be	Don’t Hit Your Sister Records
7.	Solas	For Love and Laughter	Compass Records
8.	Ronn McFarlane	Indigo Road	Dorian
9.	General Fuzz	Soulful Filling	Self Released
10.	Peter Kater & Dominic Miller	In a Dream	Point of Light Records
11.	Sundad	The Journey Continues	Sundad Records
12.	The Glimmer Room	Home Without the Journey	Neu Harmony and A-Frame Media
13.	Jeff Pearce	Rainshadow Sky	Jeff Pearce Music
14.	Saul Stokes	Villa Galaxia	Binary/Stokesmusic
15.	Johann Johannsson	Fordlandia	4AD/Touch
16.	Jenny Scheinman	Crossing the Field	Koch/Cryptogramophone/Tzadik
17.	Digitonal	Save Your Light for Darker Days	Just Music
18.	Jesse Cook	Frontiers	Koch Records
19.	Alu	Lobotomy Sessions	Alu Music
20.	Spirits in Ambience	Sahara	Aurora Blue
21.	Karda Estra	The Last of the Libertine	Cyclops Records
22.	Goddamn Electric Bill	Topics for Gossip	99x/10
23.	The Imagined Village	The Imagined Village	Real World
24.	Doug Smith	Guitar Parts	Solid Air Records
25.	Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze	Sira	ObliqSound

Sumner McKane‘s What A Great Place to Be was the Echoes CD of the Month for October 2008 Read the Review!

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