There are 12 days of Christmas and on the next Echoes we have 12 months of Echoes CD of the Month Picks. John Diliberto plays tracks off them all from Contact’s Discreet Music in January to this December’s pick, Erik Scott’s In the Company of Clouds.
Echoes artists can be found all across the many categories of the 59th Grammy Awards. John Diliberto takes a critical look at fields from Best Rock Performacne to Best New Age Album.
Jane Siberry is something of a lost icon. The music she made in the 1980s and 1990s sat right alongside artists like Kate Bush, Bjork and Tori Amos. She talks about her new album. Angels Bend Closer, on Echoes
In 1990 Enigma enchanted the world with their album, MCMXC a.D. mixing gothic chants and electronic moods. Now they return with their first album in eight years, The Fall of a Rebel Angel.
Watch a video of the Ane Brun song “All We Want is Love,” and listen to the entire half-hour live performance that appeared on Echoes. It features live versions of tunes from her latest CD, When I’m Free.
On her third album, Danish singer Agnes Obel creates a darkly introspective work that draws on themes of privacy and surveillance. It’s called Citizen of Glass.