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.
Quaeschning & Schnauss’ “Synthwaves” Hangs Ten in the Echoes Top 25 for August. Riding inside the curl behind them are folktronica artist Gordi’s “Reservoir” and Yaima’s New Age World Electro Fusion “Ovo.”
New music by Miranda Lee Richards called Existential Beast. Her last album was Echoes CD of the Year in 2016. We’ll hear new music by Falling You, a dream pop band, from Shine.
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In the Echoes Podcast we go into a musical marriage counselling session with Daron and Jenny Hollowell. They are Nights and weekends and they have a new album called Music for Marriage. As you’ll hear in this interview, it’s not music for setting the mood.
Tamsin Wilson writes about common things like dust and centipedes but turns them into interior epics works. She’s influenced by visual artists, her parents taste in pop and psychedelic music and things that might be crawling around her room or in her head.
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Echoes interviews Pepper Proud and Masaru Higasa of New Age band, Yaima. We discuss Timothy Leary, transformational festivals, new album OvO, and sensory deprivation tanks.
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Falling You’s Shine features many talented contributors as vocalists and lyricists. Instrumentalist John Zorko and two vocalists, Anji Lum and Danielle Colbeck, discuss thematic lyrics, influences, and gongs.
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.
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) …
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.