Tag: Enya

The Echoes Discovery of 2013: Mree

Hear Mree interviewed on Echoes tonight. Technically, Mree isn’t a new artist.  She released her debut album, Glow,  in 2011 when she was all of 17 years old.  But it’s her sophomore release, Winterwell, that revealed an artist of intoxicating depth and studio virtuosity.    Mree is not your typical singer song-writer.  Even though she started…

Heavenly Choirs from Julianna Barwick on Echoes

Enya may not be putting out any new music but there are many artists who are taking that layered vocal sound in different directions.  One of them is Julianna Barwick.  The Louisiana born, Missouri raised and of course, Brooklyn based artist does something Enya doesn’t dare do, perform live, layering her voice in real time…

Ethereal Girl: Mree in Echoes Podcast.

Hear Mree interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Mree isn’t your typical singer song-writer.  Even though she started out playing acoustic guitar in her bedroom and recording alt-rock songs on YouTube,  she’s evolved her sound into something closer to dream pop than folk, embracing sounds from the New Age, Alt-Rock and ambient into a music that…

Mree’s Magical Sound on Echoes.

Hear Mree interviewed on Echoes tonight. Mree isn’t your typical singer song-writer.  Even though she started out playing acoustic guitar in her bedroom and recording alt-rock songs on YouTube,  she’s evolved her sound into something closer to dream pop than folk, embracing sounds from the New Age, Alt-Rock and ambient into a music that is…

Living Room Concert: Mree

Hear Mree perform in a Living Room Concert on Echoes tonight. Mree goes where Enya fears to tread: creating music of stacked and layered vocals, and doing it live without backing tracks. This 19 year old musician has released an album of sublime maturity called Winterwell. She explores its haunting melodies live on Echoes. Below,…

The Merryness of Mree – Dreampop Folk

I love this song from Mree, real name Marie Hsiao.   I can hear elements of Kate Bush with Julia Holter and maybe even a touch of Enya.  She has a new album coming in August, but for now, here’s a song called “Into the Well. ~John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the…

5 Essential Enya CDs (Minus One)

Enya: #12 of  20 Icons of Echoes Late last year, Echoes listeners voted Irish singer Enya, #12 among 20 Icons of Echoes. The voice of Enya has become ubiquitous on television commercials and film soundtracks.  Whether heard in American Express ads or the movie, “The Age of Innocence,” her ethereal choirs and Celtic cadences seem…

New Celtic Christmas Music

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081217.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAine Minogue, Loreena McKennitt and Enya do a  Celtic Christmas (You can hear an Audio Version of this blog with music excerpts from these albums.) Celtic music and Christmas go together as well as Handel‘s Messiah and Christmas. If you want to tap into that contemplative, fireplace, snowflakes and…

Lights Out Asia and Near the Parenthesis

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080910.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLights Out Asia and Near the Parenthesis create an ambient rock You can hear an audio version of this review, with music. The n5MD record label began with a suspect business plan. They were going to release their music only on mini-disc. Although commercially that format went the way of…