Mutual Benefit is a music project created by singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. Over the years, he’s created an orchestral folk sound full of classical strings and lush harmonies. He comes in to play live on Echoes.
Icelandic singer Emilliana Torrini has a new album of electronic pop with the Colorist. The ambient Chamber music group, Bing and Ruth explores a subtle, understated, fog-shrouded sound, and they have a new album called No Home of the Mind.
Australian pianist Fiona Joy comes to Echoes to perform music from her Signature series of albums live in an intimate solo piano concert.
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.
Watch a video of the SHEL song “I’m Just a Shadow,” and listen to the entire half-hour live performance that appeared on Echoes. It features live versions of tunes from their latest CD, Just Crazy Enough.
Singer Agnes Obel has created an intimate and epic album of privacy, intimacy and secrets called Citizen of Glass. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month.
Danish singer Agnes Obel’s third album, Citizen of Glass is a conceptual work that takes the fragile singer into new musical terrain, from muted pianos to choirs. She talks about it on Echoes.
Hannah Georgas started out as kind of a very peppy pop artist, but now she’s gotten a bit more introspective and intimate recently. She has a wonderful new album called For Evelyn, named for her grandmother.
Echoes celebrates the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service with a live performance by acclaimed oboist Jill Haley, from Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman’s stable of first call musicians. Her latest album is National Park Soundscapes..
Neo-classical composer Ólafur Arnalds travels across Iceland for his new project, Island Songs, a collaboration with director Baldvin Z. “Árbakkinn” and “1995” are the first two installments.