We talk with Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan. With music born in the Lebanese civil war, and a nomadic life since childhood, she’s created an Arab electronica that transcends worlds.
Playlists
Thursday August 10th, 2017-Echoes Program 1732D – Echoes
Tag: singer-songwriter
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for July 2017: London Grammar on Top – Echoes
ECHOES TOP 25 for July 2017 Hear a Spotify Playlist of Top 25 Below London Grammar – Truth is a Beautiful Thing (Ministry of Sound Recordings) Wilsen – I Go Missing in my Sleep (Secret City Records) Yaima – OvO (Yaima) Maggie Koerner – Dig Down Deep (EP) (R’COUP’D) Emel Mathlouthi – Ensen (PTKF) Nym – Lilac Chaser (Nym) …
Playlists
Wednesday, July 26th, 2017-Echoes Program 1730C
Tamsin Wilson is an English singer who records in the group Wilsen, creating evocative pop songs about restlessness, identity and nostalgia with some surprising imagery – including a centipede.
Reviews & Commentary
Lola Marsh- Wishing Girl Music Video
A review of Lola Marsh’s latest video, “Wishing Girl”, an artist from Echoes Top 25 June 2017. The video features an unexpected pregnancy that is pursued by space aliens from a distant world.
Playlists
Monday, July 17th, 2017-Echoes Program 1729A
Singer and songwriter Julia Easterlin started out as a looping musician, but then she collaborated with Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farke Toure, changed her performance name to Hite and got a live band to play her introspective songs.
Playlists
Weekend, July 8 & 9, 2017 – Echoes Program 1727A
Truth is a Beautiful Thing and so is the music that London Grammar makes on their new album. The English dreampop trio has released one of the most powerfully contemplative albums of the year.
Reviews & Commentary
March to May- “Fifty Years”
March to May is a dream-folk duo channeling 60’s American and English folk in a pastoral video for “Fifty Years,” a romp through the blossoms and windows of life.
CD of the Month
July CD of the Month: London Grammar’s Truth Is a Beautiful Thing
Chamber Pop trio London Grammar’s “Truth Is a Beautiful Thing” is an Echoes CD of the Month of striking maturity, luxurious depth and more evidence of Hannah Reid as one of our great singers.
Playlists
Monday, July 3rd, 2017 – Echoes Program 1727A
Truth is a Beautiful Thing and so is the music that London Grammar makes on their new album. The English dreampop trio has released one of the most powerfully contemplative albums of the year.
Playlists
Weekend, July 1 & 2, 2017-Echoes Program 1726A
We survey the first six months of the year for our favorite albums. Among them are Wilsen’s I Go Missing in My Sleep, Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene 3, and Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn.