It’s vampires and dangerous love when we talk with Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes. She talks about the vampyric and film imagery behind her new album, Lost Girls.
The Echoes Top 25 for September 2019 features the CD of the Month “Varda” by Hugar at the top, followed by FLOW, Heather Woods Broderick, Lamb, and 21 more recent recordings.
We talk to Heather Woods Broderick. She’s backed up Sharon Van Etten, but on her own, she makes a personal and atmospheric music of peacefully contemplated turmoil.
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders has released Valve Bone Woe, an album that reveals a jazzier side, that also has a bit of atmospheric ambience about it. We’ll also hear from Kitaro and Brian Eno.
We’ll hear new music from an artist who started recording as Jo Beth Young. Then she became Talitha Rise and released the best album of 2018. Now she’s returned with a new CD, Strangers.
Rob Simonsen is a veteran film composer who has just released his first solo album, Reveries. He creates a nostalgic ambient chamber music, seen through the fog of Paris.
On the next Echoes, a magical concert of Chamber pop when we hear Heather Woods Broderick come in to play live. Her latest album, Invitation, is a journey of the spirit and soul through nature.
It was 30 years ago that Echoes launched on October 2, 1989. John Diliberto brings back to the music that was played in that first year, from Philip Glass to Brian Eno to Kate Bush and more.
Echoes paints sound in the colors of Fall with an Atumnal Equinox Soundscape that includes classics from George Winston and new music by Fiona Joy Hawkins and Maya Beiser.
New music from London Grammar teaming up with electronic producer Flume. We’ve also got something from Plaid, and their dynamic approach to electronic music from latest album, Polymer.