Sufjan Stevens, an artist who pushes the envelope with ethereal arrangements while still making evocative songs, releases a video from his Greatest Gift album called “Life with Dignity.”
It’s the return of Irish singer Moya Brennan, a founding member of the group Clannad she comes in with her family band and Cormac DaBarra to play their best live Echoes set ever. including “Theme from Harry’s Game.”.
As we end the year, John Diliberto looks back on Echoes musicians who left the planet in 2017. They range from the iconic to the obscure, but all left their vibrations on the planet.
We’ll hear music by The National. Their album, Sleep Well Beast, is nominated for some Grammy awards. We’ll also hear a classic by Tangerine Dream going back to their 1976 album, Stratosfear.
Get ready for the big chill on an Echoes Winter Solstice. It’s a winter fantasy with no Christmas Carols, but lots of music taking you into the celestial side of the season.
St. Vincent’s new album of twisted rock motifs is called Masseduction and it explores new terrain in her original sound. We’ll also hear from one of dozens of new soundtracks by Bear McCreary, this one for the movie “Unrest.”
There is no other Year End music list like Echoes Best of of 2017. Ambient Requiems. Deep space journeys, chamber pop, progrock epics, EDM journeys and world fusion. See who made the list.
On the next Echoes, it’s music from a former Sneaker Pimp when we hear Lucas Oswald’s dreampop album, Whet as in whet your blade. We’ll also hear the duo called Kllo. It glows on Echoes.
Echoes Top 25 for November’s is topped by our CD of the month Todd Boston’s One, followed by the debut album from FLOW, Tom Caulfield’s Wash the Dusk with Silver. See the complete list.
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In the Echoes Podcast we remember Michael Hedge, an iconoclastic musician who changed a generations approached the acoustic guitar. He died on December 2, 1997 in a car crash.