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geekfreak
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 21 2013 Location: Musical Garden Status: Offline Points: 9872 |
Topic: Echolyn Posted: December 14 2013 at 10:36 |
Is there any person`s whom like Echolyn. whom would like to chat about the band.
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rdtprog
Special Collaborator Heavy, RPI, Symph, JR/F Canterbury Teams Joined: April 04 2009 Location: Mtl, QC Status: Offline Points: 5115 |
Posted: December 14 2013 at 10:53 |
I had on of my most impressive concert experience back in the 90's when the band had their first album out and i they played in front of 50 peoples in a small club. The guys were just in front of me like they were in my living room and i was completely blown away by their performance. It cost be 5$ to see that! It didn't take me anything more to become a fan
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geekfreak
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 21 2013 Location: Musical Garden Status: Offline Points: 9872 |
Posted: December 14 2013 at 16:09 |
Which album is your top 10. Best song. Which epic. |
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Epignosis
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2007 Location: Raeford, NC Status: Offline Points: 32473 |
Posted: December 14 2013 at 16:13 |
Mei
"Mei" "Mei" |
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someone_else
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Posted: December 14 2013 at 16:36 |
Mei is great, but their self-titled 2012 album is the best post-2000 album I have heard. it is in my top 10. Best track: Some Memorial, closely followed by Islands (the epic) and Locust to Bethlehem.
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Prog_Traveller
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 29 2005 Location: Bucks county PA Status: Offline Points: 1474 |
Posted: December 14 2013 at 17:59 |
Big fan. Also have met the band personally a few times and interviewed them. I like most of their albums. Newbies should start with "as the world" or "suffocating the bloom."
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Mellotron Storm
Prog Reviewer Joined: August 27 2006 Location: The Beach Status: Offline Points: 12833 |
Posted: December 14 2013 at 18:27 |
Not a fan of Mei or As The World but man I love the debut along with Cowboy Poems Free, Suffocating The Bloom and The End Is Beautiful. Those four albums keep me quite satisfied as far a my Echolyn thirst goes.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
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infocat
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: June 10 2011 Location: Colorado, USA Status: Offline Points: 4671 |
Posted: December 14 2013 at 20:33 |
Interesting how peoples favorites differ so much. Kind of like Gentle Giant in that respect. My faves are
Mei as the world The End Is Beautiful But I love them all. Got a "three pack" (first two albums plus ...and Every Blossom EP) from them back in 1993, just based on reviews. Did not regret. (Also got "the gardener's guide to STB" lyrics sheet. What did I ever do with that thing?! Looks like they have it online, though; cool! http://www.echolyn.com/guides.asp?iAlbumID=2) And I was so excited when I got as the world in '95! Did not disappoint. |
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Mr. Mustard
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 06 2012 Location: Maine, USA Status: Offline Points: 207 |
Posted: December 15 2013 at 20:28 |
Super fun band. Suffocating the Bloom is by far my favorite. Great song writing on that album, and the production is stellar (the punch of those drums is crazy). 21, Winterthru, Reaping the Harvest, and the entire Suite for the Everyman remain some of my favorite songs, along with mei of course. Unfortunately, they're still too obscure for how good they are.
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AreYouHuman
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 12 2013 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 470 |
Posted: December 15 2013 at 22:46 |
I was lucky to catch them in 1992, probably on the same tour that rdtprog saw them, in a rather dumpy club. They opened for a stripped-down version of Richard Sinclair’s Caravan of Dreams, and I had no idea who they were but was mightily impressed.
I was glad to see them get a major-label contract a couple years later, but it was kind of sad too, because you just knew the label wouldn’t do squat to promote the album. So far I’ve only heard “Suffocating the Bloom” and “As the World.” |
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geekfreak
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 21 2013 Location: Musical Garden Status: Offline Points: 9872 |
Posted: December 20 2013 at 06:21 |
Not seen them live. But have most of there albums. My top albums are.
Mei, As The World and Cowboy Poems Free. Don`t now if the band as been. Playing live in the U.K!. |
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
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snowsnow
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 09 2011 Location: Belper, England Status: Offline Points: 555 |
Posted: December 20 2013 at 06:58 |
I think both Mei and the latest self-titled one are classics.
The 10-minute song (Speaking in) Lampblack off their last album is an absolute killer track.
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geekfreak
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 21 2013 Location: Musical Garden Status: Offline Points: 9872 |
Posted: December 26 2013 at 13:23 |
Echolyn are my new best band. what a super musicians.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
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geekfreak
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 21 2013 Location: Musical Garden Status: Offline Points: 9872 |
Posted: January 22 2014 at 09:46 |
I`m listening to. Echolyn as the world. Its next album mei. There a fav band.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
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Evolver
Special Collaborator Crossover & JR/F/Canterbury Teams Joined: October 22 2005 Location: The Idiocracy Status: Offline Points: 5482 |
Posted: January 22 2014 at 10:08 |
I saw Echolyn in a private show during the "As The World" tour. Architectural Metaphor opened.
It wasn't supposed to be a private show, but the four of us in our group were the entire audience. Sony did nothing to give the band any publicity. The band at least played an awesome set, and hung around to talk with us afterwards. I felt bad, though. I suppose that's why they never came back to Boston. It's not much of a college town anyway. |
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geekfreak
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 21 2013 Location: Musical Garden Status: Offline Points: 9872 |
Posted: January 23 2014 at 12:30 |
lets form a get Echolyn. bigger and better support around the world.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
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axeman
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 13 2008 Location: Michigan, US Status: Offline Points: 235 |
Posted: September 26 2014 at 00:31 |
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three_views
Forum Newbie Joined: September 26 2014 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Posted: September 26 2014 at 18:52 |
Funny that you mentioned the band...just before registering (of which I still need to choose an avatar, I suppose) there was a subscriber that used Echolyn's cover art as their avatar. I never witnessed them live, but am a proud owner of their debut CD...of which I can only imagine is hard to find. They composed some seriously complex material that would only be enjoyed by the 'fringe coefficient.' What are they doing now?
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infocat
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Posted: September 26 2014 at 23:53 |
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