Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas, but we do have 12 CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward and then backwards. 2022 was a great year for music on Echoes.
It was a tough year for Icons of Echoes as Klaus Schulze and Vangelis both left earth’s orbit and they were followed by Julee Cruise, Low Roar and too many more. Echoes remembers.
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.
Loreena McKennitt returns to seasonal themes with a double CD, Under A Winter’s Moon, playing ancient carols and original seasonal songs. It’s Echoes December CD of the Month.
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.
New music by Icelandic singer JFDR. She’s collaborated with Olafur Arnalds and now has a new single. We’ll also hear from Hans Christian who has a new collaboration with singer Jim Gelcer.
Singer Christine Byrd has emerged from the Christian music scene and providing backing vocals for the band Hammock to forge her own music of liberation, loss and atonement as Lumenette.
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.
Christmas comes early with the December CD of the Month, Loreena McKennitt’s Under a Winter’s Moon. Loreena merges readings from A Child’s Christmas in Wales with songs from the season.