Sheila Chandra Echo Vinyl LP Due Out 25/09/26

Sheila Chandra - Echo

Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 25th Sepptember, 2026

Tracklist:

1. Speaking in Tongues III (Live)
2. Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean (Live)
3. Dhyana and Donalogue (Live)
4. The Enchantment (Live)
5. Waiting (Live)
6. Speaking in Tongues II (Live)
7. Lament of McCrimmon/Song of the Banshee (Live)
8. Mecca (Live)
9. Sacred Stones (Live)
10. The Blacksmith (Live)

‘Echo’ is likely Sheila Chandra’s final album. A collection of live performances, thetitle loosely references the nymph of Greek myth who lost her voice – just asChandra did 15 years ago.A shy and infrequent live performer in her time, and very much aware that so manyof her fans were disappointed never to have seen her in concert, Chandra has puttogether this collection of recordings to give them a taste of what her breathtakingvirtuoso solo voice performances were like.It’s a set drawn from an extensive search for every concert, TV or radio sessionrecording that Chandra ever made. From these she has picked the finestperformances of her songs, drawn largely from the first two albums of her 90ssolo-voice-and-drone trilogy, which was reissued on vinyl on its 30th anniversary, in2023. Other additions here include two songs from her fifth solo album ‘Roots andWings’ 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 herappearances during the first ‘Imagined Village’ tour in 2007.The digital release comes with five bonus live tracks not included on the LP format.“My performances were co-created, by my audience and myself,” says Chandra, andthat “it’s a performer’s presence and heart that an audience come to hear, not technicalperfection. Concerts are one of the few places where another person gives us theirundivided, undistracted and ‘in the moment’ presence, and we, as audience, ‘borrow’their stilled mind. It’s one of the vanishingly few spaces in our society where that stillhappens.The performances embodied on this album, reflect that truth. They are not perfect. Andsustaining 100% focused concentration when you’re carrying an entire show alone isimpossible. In some cases, I had access to performances of the same song with greatertechnical perfection, but less ‘soul’. In every case, I have chosen feeling over precision –even, in some cases, chosen ‘soul’ over the best available recording quality.That said, listening to an album is not the same as being at a live performance, and thelistener will pick up on technical flaws, so it’s a balance. But I’ve tried to ignore theimpulse to ‘change history’.”