Singer Christine Byrd has emerged out of the Christian music scene, and backing vocals for the band Hammock, to forge a music of liberation, loss and atonement, as Lumenette.
It’s the Best of Echoes 2022. It’s been a torrential year of new music. John Diliberto has been sifting through it all to pick out the 30 best albums of the last 12 months.
Christmas comes early with the December CD of the Month, Loreena McKennitt’s Under a Winter’s Moon. Loreena merges reading from A Child’s Christmas in Wales with songs from the season.
Monsoon was an Asian fusion band featuring singer Sheila Chandra. 40 Years ago they had a massive hit with the song “Ever So Lonely” and now, their debut album Third Eye is being reissued.
New music on Echoes by Weyes Blood from her album And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow, and a release by Moby from his new label, teaming up with Jamaican-Asian singer Akemi Fox.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Bruno SanFilippo. He’s Argentine-born but based in Spain. He has crafted a new album inspired by social media called Redes, which is Spanish for network.
An Echoes Acoustic Thanksgiving features Vin Downes, live. The acclaimed finger-style guitarist performs music from his latest album, Three Evenings. And we’ll hear more music for Thanksgiving.
Music by Karmacoda, a band out of San Francisco. They’re tapping that old Trip-hop sound on their new album Lessons in Time. We’ll also hear from Aukai’s new album called Apricity.
Suzanne Teng and Gilbert Levy go in the Tank, the reverberant water tank in Colorado. Suzanne deploys her many flutes in its echoes on a new meditative release called Shimmer.
We talk with Airport People: not weary airline travelers, but ambient chamber music artist Leon Todd Johnson. He has an album of creaky piano centered compositions called From Nine Mornings.