Hammock’s Echoes CD of the Month, “Everything and Nothing” leads the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Haroula Rose’s “Here the Blue River,” Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise” and Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool.” See the complete list.
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes, a new soundtrack by Cliff Martinez for The Neon Demon. He goes back to a 70s electronic sound.
Aidan Knight is a singer-songwriter whose music is slow and introspective with an array of instrumental styles from humming and strumming guitar to more orchestral arrangements. He gets pretty spacey too.
Tim Gane was a founding member of the post-rock group, Stereolab who were underground darlings for the better part of 25 years.
Here the Blue River is an album of poetic beauty, both in the lyrics and the music. Haroula Rose has been recording since 2009, but she has summitted a mountaintop of perfection on her second full-length album.
Songs of empowerment ring out when Swedish singer Ane Brun comes in to play music from her latest album, When I’m Free. She plays music from it live on Echoes.
On a Slow Flow Echoes slip into new music by American-Primitive guitarist Glenn Jones and his album, Fleeting. We’ll also hear an electronic artist who records as SineRider.
On the next Echoes, it’s new music by Radiohead. The revered progressive alt-rock band has trickled out a new single called Burn the Witch. We’ll hear that and a trio called Secret Sky with 3 members of Loreena McKennitt’s band.
New music from the English band, yndi halda whose name might be Nordic for “Enjoy Eternal Bliss” or it might be Icelandic for “Keep Relish” and Jennifer O’Connor whose name means business.
The spirit of Abbess Hildegard von Bingen emerges in the music of Julianna Barwick on her new album of 21st century chants called “Will.” We’ll also hear a new collaboration with flutist Sherry Finzer, guitarist Darin Mahoney and percussionist Will Clipman.