Heather Woods Broderick is a singer-songwriter detailing a life of transience amidst a music that hovers in moody atmospheres and haunting choruses. Her album, Glider is the the Echoes CD of the Month for July.
We pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the halfway point. John Diliberto then runs them down from #25 to number 1. It begins with a band we’ve never heard of before and ends with an Icon of Echoes. We’ll hear from artists who put out signature releases, others reaching for ambitious highs and still others reflecting on very long careers.
She’s sung with artists like Efterklang and Sharon Van Etten, but now Heather Woods Broderick has an impressive new solo album called Glider.
There are three nights of great Echoes music this week in Philadelphia, when Lanterna, Low Roar and Ozric Tentacles come to town on consecutive nights.
Sonomad is a project of Ramin Sakuria and Geoffrey Brandin, both from the electronica band The Supreme Beings of Leisure.
Swedish singer Rebekka Karijord is a musician of rare vocal gifts and a conceptual approach to music represented on her latest album, We Become Ourselves.
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Angela Sheik is a 21st century singer-songwriter who doesn’t just sit at a piano or play a guitar. With live looping, she creates her own elaborate orchestrations using those instruments plus autoharp, theremin, flute and whatever else she can get her hands on.
Coming up on the next Echoes it’s new music by singer Sharon Van Etten We’ll hear something from her new EP called “I Don’t Want to Let You Down.”
If you love the charm of a broken music box, a building in decay, and moss covered gardens, then the fractured elegance of Digitonal is for you. The ambient chamber music band has released their first album in 7 years. It’s called Beautiful Broken and it’s the CD of the Month for June.
Coming up on an Echoes Slow Flow Friday, we’ll hear new music by Paul De Jong, one half of the idiosyncratic art-rock group, The Books.