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Echo Us to set to play Jimmy Maks and more- release video mini-documentary about new album, 2:12, À Priori Memoriaé.
2013 Independent Music award-winners Echo Us will play two more Portland area shows to start off 2014- The first being Jan. 28th at Jimmy Maks opening for Mel Browns Septet. The show is part of Jimmys Partners In Jazz series and brings together an extra-eclectic night of Echo Us pop / classical fusion with jazz.
Echo Us upcoming album, 2:12, À Priori Memoriaé is on its way in 2014, and a mini-documentary on the recording of the new album is just released. A video for the single Nightlight also recently appeared, featuring vocalists Ethan and Henta morphing their interlocking duets amidst a background of concert harp, strings and oboe. Ethan emphasizes what a natural process the album was to make, and how much it was a step outside from the successful formulae already put it place on the previous album Tomorrow Will Tell The Story.
À Priori Memoriaé firmly fuses Echo Us ambient music core with live classical musicians. It was a very organic process says Ethan. The entire recording sounds like a live performance. It is quite possibly the most innovative work in the Echo Us catalog, and was put together in such a way as to make one feel a continuous stream of images and emotion, based off of only a few melodic fragments- In that way, its a classical composition, contrapuntal, with many melodic inversions and alterations creating its flow. The album barely features anything resembling a drum kit, and that was intentional.
The new album features Raelyn Olson (Concert Harp), Chris Smith (Flute), Christina Fitzgerald (Oboe), and as mentioned, the vocals of GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Henta. Echo Us will announce release plans for the new album in due time, and continue their acoustic performances.