On the next Echoes it’s Nordic Dreams. From Sigur Ros to Agnes Obel, Erik Wøllo to Ane Brun we’ll hear the sound coming out of Scandinavian musicians that seems to emerge from the other side of consciousness.
On the next Echoes, a band called From Indian Lakes comes in to play their intimate dreampop live. Their latest album is called Everything Feels Better Now
We turn emerald green in our annual exploration of all things Celtic. We’ll hear music born in traditional roots, music that explodes those roots and sounds from the outer edges of the Celtic contingent.
Coming up on Echoes, it’s new music by Sohn, an English singer-songwriter living in Vienna and turning his songs into a rustic ambient sound on his new album, Rennen.
Ry X is a musician from Australia who resides in that zone of ambient folk music like Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens and Fink. He released a beautiful album last year called Dawn that draws from his surfer boy childhood in Australia, life in Berlin, and his global travels.
Echoes February Top 25 includes the CD of the Month, Bonobo’s Migration and the CD of the Month for next Month, Daniel Voth’s Transcendance. See the complate list at echoes.org
New music from down tempo acoustics laden album from Aimee Mann and on the opposite end of the emotional spectrum is new music from the dub influenced Theivery Corporation.