Kevin Bronson on March 2nd, 2016

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Miranda Lee Richards’ “Echoes of the Dreamtime” — her first album in almost seven years — is a work of gobsmacking beauty and estimable ambition, featuring Rick Parker as a player/producer and a posse of collaborators bringing lush orchestration to her psychedelic folk. Horns, woodwinds, sitar and strings (incuding Lili Haydn) give “Dreamtime” a mystical, ethereal persona while Richards’ willowy vocals wax on what she calls “themes of self-discovery, transformation, and grappling with the duality between dark and light within ourselves and society.” Richards’ recent (under-attended) album-release show at the Satellite was transformative as well, with no fewer than a dozen players, all dressed in white, re-creating the album virtually note for note. The video for the lead track “7th Ray” is a compilation of Super 8 footage that suits the nostalgic echoes in Richard’s dreamtime, and also it’s also a reminder not to sleep on this special album.

||| Watch: The video for “7th Ray”

||| Previously: “7th Ray”