Echolyn
Echolyn is an American progressive rock band based in eastern Pennsylvania.
History
Origins and first phase (1989–1995)
Echolyn was formed in 1989 when guitarist Brett Kull and drummer Paul Ramsey, members of a recently split cover band called Narcissus, joined with keyboardist Chris Buzby to form a new band to focus on original songs. They were soon joined by fellow Narcissus veteran Ray Weston on vocals and bassist Jesse Reyes, and quickly began playing live and recording their eponymous debut album, which was released in 1991. During the recording of that album, Reyes was replaced on bass by Tom Hyatt.
With this lineup, Echolyn recorded a second album, Suffocating the Bloom, and a 4-song EP, ...and every blossom, and with these releases attracted the attention of Sony Music. In 1993, Echolyn was signed to a multi-album deal on Sony's Epic Records label, and their major-label debut, As the World, was released in March 1995.
However, the band and the label did not agree on the band's musical direction, and the band was forced to promote As the World without the support of Sony. Disillusioned, the band split up, releasing a posthumous album of demos and live tracks in 1996 called When the Sweet Turns Sour (featuring a cover of the early Genesis track "When The Sour Turns To Sweet", which Sony refused to allow to be included on a Magna Carta Genesis tribute CD entitled "Supper's Ready").
Echolyn (1991 album)
echolyn is the 1991 debut album by the progressive rock band Echolyn.
Track listing
Personnel
Guest musicians
Katherine Shenk - violin Kimbery Shenk - cello (1,11) Brian Buzby - alto saxophone (10)
References
External links
Echolyn (2012 album)
echolyn is a double album by the progressive rock band Echolyn. It was released in 2012 on Velveteen Records. The album is the group's eighth full-length studio release.
Track listing
Personnel
Guest musicians
References
External links
Podcasts:
echolyn
ALBUMS
- Echolyn released: 2012
- The End Is Beautiful released: 2005
- A Little Nonsense: Now and Then released: 2002
- Progfest '94: The Official Bootleg released: 2002
- Mei released: 2002
- Cowboy Poems Free released: 2000
- When the Sweet Turns Sour released: 1996
- As the World released: 1995
- Suffocating the Bloom released: 1992
- Echolyn released: 1991
Suffocating the Bloom
Released 1992- 21
- Winterthru
- Memoirs From Between
- Reaping the Harvest
- In Every Garden
- A Little Nonsense
- The Sentimental Chain
- One Voice
- Here I Am
- Cactapus
- A Suite for the Everyman: Only Twelve
- A Suite for the Everyman: A Cautious Repose
- A Suite for the Everyman: Bearing Down
- A Suite for the Everyman: Cash Flow Shuffle
- A Suite for the Everyman: Mr. Oxy Moron
- A Suite for the Everyman: Twelve's Enough
- A Suite for the Everyman: I Am the Tide
- A Suite for the Everyman: Cannoning in B Major
- A Suite for the Everyman: Picture Perfect
- A Suite for the Everyman: Those That Want to Buy
- A Suite for the Everyman: Suffocating the Bloom
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Misery Not Memory
by: EcholynIn these woods our beauty lies
In misery, not memory
I've eaten pills no one should swallow
Wound up naked on the floor
Used a gun that wasn't clean
Now I wonder
Slept with whores and fell in love
The bottom was so far away
No scars to remind
No villains at my throat
No kind words will help
Help me, won't someone help me
In misery, not memory
I've tripped so hard no one would follow
Past side three of The Wall
Driven blind and made it home
Hit head on and walked away
Why am I unpunished when
Beauty meets an early end
I'm no victim
Just curious, curious
These woods only bring sorrow
Can't deny and won't admit
That I belong to it
I don't understand
Jimmy slept on John's grave the night we buried him
Chris was found underneath the floor in the house where
he was killed
They found Frank Thanksgiving morning with the needle
still in his arm
Wake like a Quaker
Full of promise
I'm afraid I'll kill again
Chose the life that's poisoned me
Leave it all to misery
Leave it all to misery
Can't deny
That I belong to misery