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rushfan4
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Posted: June 10 2013 at 17:06 |
And now jumping a couple of years ahead, as all very well know they released a self-titled album in 2012.
As Rob (Epignosis) kindly brought to my attention in another thread, they now have Two new singles on their Bandcamp page. |
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Todd
Special Collaborator RPI / Heavy Prog Team Joined: December 19 2007 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 3472 |
Posted: August 10 2010 at 19:03 |
Here's another recent post from Brett Kull:
The album is taking time because we are different people now. I know
i am. Teaching has fallen in my lap and is calling me. I tend to go where the energy takes me. As i've said before i feel like i'm in a river and just going with the current to where it takes me. Sometimes its a beautiful calm ride and other times i feel like i'm drowning but i know from both experiences i'm learning and change WILL occur to take me elsewhere. Right now the river is saying to pursue college level teaching, go back to school for a degree, make a new echolyn record, record strings tonight with an artist i'm producing, play in a punk rock band with my soul mate and wife, and listen to the new Crowded House album. When the river changes course so will i. In my twenties i constantly felt like i was forcing, conquering and
sometimes failing my own reality. Because of this nothing ever felt "right". Of course i wouldn't trade those times for the world because i wouldn't be who i am today without those experiences. In my thirties i was frustrated because i wasn't who i thought i should be. I had spent my late teens and twenties thinking i was this and that without really knowing WHO i was. In my thirties i spent a decade shaking that preconception. I think we all do that to different extents, culminating in a realization/ crises somewhere between 35 and 45. Midlife if you will. Its a passage we step though and as a friend of mine says its a time when your Greek Chorus leaves you and you're standing ALONE on the stage of life. That CHORUS is the one that in our youth shouts "I'm a musician!" or "I'm a professional athlete!" or "I'm a parent with a beautiful family!" or "I'm a teacher!!". But who are we really when those ideals go away and we are left to just speak without them?? Our album has taken a while because i (we) are not the same people we
were when we made "the end is beautiful". I was in the passage when i wrote those tunes. The end of my old life didn't seem beautiful at the time (you can see it in my words) but deep down i knew it truly was. I knew change, though frightening, CHARGES our lives with a newness and energy. The new album has taken a while because when we get together i don't want to sound like i was then...it doesn't feel immediate, real or me. I can't speak for my mates but i know i can't release music that just goes through the motions. We've written a ton of music over the past 5 years but i am smart enough to know what feels right and vital and what feels like a a ghost of who we really are. We trust each others instincts to perceive those things. For the past 2 or 3 months we've been in the moment so to speak and
all on the same page enough to actually make something new that represents who we are now. On the 21st-22nd we are cutting the basic tracks to 3-5 new ideas. We are all excited! I still spend a ton of time writing songs for me, the band, other
people, etc. I know ray is the same. As we get better at that craft we know what things can be. When they don't get to that "truth" we have to figure out how to fix it. Sometimes that takes a while. Its certainly not for lack of trying. My solo album "Last Of The Curlews" was the first thing i wrote on the "other side" of my life. It is a look back, a goodbye, and a realization of the NOW. It is a "welcoming" of change and its infinite possibilities. It is me stepping off the river's edge and into the water. The new echolyn album has to be that and more... more because it has to be real and vital for ray, chris, tom and paul... not just for me. We'll know when that happens. We know it now i think. That's why we are actually moving ahead with this new project. What would Yoda say?? "Weeds there are.... but use them to become
the river you always were" ;-) b |
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Todd
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Posted: July 18 2010 at 01:23 |
This just in from Ray, regarding the first three songs for the new album:
accumulate,head right and moments of no sound. i was just in my
headphones and listened a few times. if i do say so myself these tunes have some of our best melodies,musically and vocally. this week we are going to work on the fourth song, some memorial. welcome summer of music,welcome. |
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Todd
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Posted: July 16 2010 at 18:12 |
I'm a member of the Echolyn user group on Yahoo, and there's been quite a bit of activity lately. Brett, Ray, Paul, and Chris all pretty regularly contribute to the discussion, especially Brett and Ray. They've been hammering together lots of tracks for the new album--my guess is it will be out early 2011, based on the stages of recording they're talking about. Lately they've also been discussing what some of their compositions have meant to them, most notably Ray talking about losing three of his friends to heroin addiction-related incidents ("Misery Not Memory") and lots of banter about "Mei." It's a great [email protected]
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lucas
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Posted: July 15 2010 at 15:40 |
that's very good news, thanks ! |
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J-Man
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Posted: July 15 2010 at 14:46 |
^ AWESOME!!! Thanks for posting that!
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rdtprog
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Posted: July 15 2010 at 14:35 |
Looks like they are doing something...
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J-Man
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Posted: July 14 2010 at 18:09 |
As mentioned, the last album was in 2005 and a new one is in the works (but there is very limited info). I don't particularly follow them, though I love most of their music.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: July 14 2010 at 17:03 |
Thats a high rating for such a mediocre album. Hope they do better next time.
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Nightfly
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Posted: July 14 2010 at 16:58 |
^ Do you mean Stars and Garden? That's the only one I know of, apart from the DVD included in the As The World re-release. If it was that came out in 2004. |
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Harry Hood
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 23:26 |
They released an awesome DVD which contained a recent live performance and a documentary about the history of the band. This was in 2009 I believe. I can't reccomend it highly enough, one of the best prog DVD's I won (and I have many).
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Nightfly
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Posted: July 12 2010 at 08:23 |
A new album was iminent a couple of years back and then it all went quiet. Back in January there was a mention of a couple of new tracks being recorded but nothing since. I'm sure it'll surface eventually.
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Prog_Traveller
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Posted: July 11 2010 at 23:05 |
I don't really follow Echolyn but I love much of their music. They live in my area and I have seen them in concert about six times. I even ran into one of them at the movie theater near me about a year ago. Lol. I also hung out with them and have had a few beers with them once. OK enough bragging. LOL. My guess is that they are cooking up something. Only two of them make a living out of playing music(Brett and Paul)so they don't do Echolyn to support themselves. They are probably busy with other things at the moment. They will probably put out an album by the end of this year(or next year maybe). Brett is often busy doing his solo thing or engineering or producing stuff for other people. He's kind of like the Trevor Rabin or Todd Rundgren of prog.
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cannon
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Posted: July 11 2010 at 20:43 |
Holy smokes, I meant 2005.
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rdtprog
Special Collaborator Heavy, RPI, Symph, JR/F Canterbury Teams Joined: April 04 2009 Location: Mtl, QC Status: Offline Points: 5145 |
Posted: July 11 2010 at 20:42 |
Well, the members are still active on different projects outside Echolyn, but i think it's about time they produce some new stuff all together...
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
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Epignosis
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Posted: July 11 2010 at 20:36 |
harmonium.ro
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Posted: July 11 2010 at 20:29 |
1995? Where did you get that? Their last album was from 2005:
4.09 | 39 ratings The End Is Beautiful 2005 |
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cannon
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 03 2010 Location: Coho Country Status: Offline Points: 1302 |
Posted: July 11 2010 at 20:26 |
Curious to what has become of Echolyn. Thier last album was released in 1995. Are they still even together or have the members go on to other projects?
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