Echo [LP], Sheila Chandra, Vinyl

Echo is likely Sheila Chandra's final album. A collection of live performances, the title loosely references the nymph of Greek myth who lost her voice - just as Chandra did 15 years ago. A shy and infrequent live performer in her time, and very much aware that so many of her fans were disappointed never to have seen her in concert, Chandra has put together this collection of recordings to give them a taste of what her breathtaking virtuoso solo voice performances were like. It's a set drawn from an extensive search for every concert, TV or radio session recording that Chandra ever made. From these she has picked the finest performances of her songs, drawn largely from the first two albums of her 90s solo-voice-and-drone trilogy, which was reissued on vinyl on it's 30th anniversary, in 2023. Other additions here include two songs from her fifth solo album Roots and Wings where she was refining the techniques she would later come to use on Weaving My Ancestors' Voices, and The Zen Kiss - and a final track drawn from her appearances during the first Imagined Village tour in 2007.