Echoes Top 25 for November 2020. Digitonal, our CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Ian Boddy, Steve Roach, Ane Brun (twice!) Tom Caufield and 19 other great CDs.
New music by Alex Maas, lead singer of the psychedelic band The Black Angels. He goes more pastoral on an album called Luca. We’ll also hear from Time Traveler, the new persona of Eleon.
Singer Ane Brun releases a perfect pair of CDs, After the Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow, exploring themes of loss and existence. Both are the Echoes CD of the Month.
Gracie and Rachel’s latest album is Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong. They talk music, anger, and pandemic. Then we remember composer Harold Budd who passed on 12/7 with an hour special.
It’s the fourth Icon of Echoes, Dead Can Dance. This duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry have created some of the most transcendent, time-shifting music of the late 20th century.
We’ll hear songs you know by people who didn’t originally record them including new cover versions of music by Roxy Music, Phil Collins, Cocteau Twins, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
New music by Loma, the collaboration between singer Emily Cross and Jonathan Meiburg. They have a new album, Don’t Shy Away. We’ll also hear something new from Svara.
30 Icons of Echoes: the artists who have informed the show over our first 30 years. In this Wordless Echoes stream, we count down the list, starting with #30, and ending up at the #1 Icon of Echoes.
The Norwegian singer Ane Brun has been one of the understated sirens of dream pop. She talks about the loss and loneliness that informs much of her latest recordings.