Briana Marela sings heavenly songs of unconditional love, rendering them in looping stacked voices. Her new album, All Around Us, is named after a children’s book and her music has that sense of innocence, awe and exploration. She sings live on Echoes.
Julia Holter released her album “Have You in My Wilderness” earlier this year. Now she has a new video of a stark live performance of “Betsy on the Roof” which she takes into Cecil Taylor territory.
Echoes celebrates the arrival of fall with a soundscape of autumnal moods and melancholy ambiences. These shows tend to take on a more pastoral acoustic tone and there will be plenty of that, but also some electronic tone poems and ambient excursions. Turn your fall foliage into a lightshow with an Echoes Autumnal Equinoxe
Domino Kirke is the daughter of Simon Kirke, drummer for the bands Free and Bad Company. And her sister is Jemima Kirke from HBO’s Girls. Now Domino Kirke has a new album called Independent Channel. We’ll also hear new music from Lera Lynn from HBO’s True Detective.
The Echoes Top 25 for August finds Jesse Cook’s CD of the Month at the top, followed by July’s CD pick, Heather Woods Broderick’s Glider. Look at the bottom and you’ll see next month’s #1 album, our September CD of the Month, Hans Christian’s Nanda Devi.
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.”
Kristin’s music has been called “Ethereal Renaissance Pop” and she’s been recording it for most of this millennium.
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.
Coming up on Echoes we’ll hear music from the band called The Weather Station and Keith Jarrett’s new album of solo piano music, Creation.
She’s sung with artists like Efterklang and Sharon Van Etten, but now Heather Woods Broderick has an impressive new solo album called Glider.