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News2.12.10 'Descending From The Dream' was chosen for inclusion on the Infectious Unease Radio Compilation. More information is posted in the blog Unbeknownst to us here until recently Henta was one of five nominees in the new age catagory at this year's Grammys for her album Laserium For The Soul The last session of harp tracks were recorded last week with Raelyn on a beautiful sunny afternoon. The followup to The Tide Decides is officially in the mixing stage. 11.05.09: It is now confirmed that Seattle based vocalist Henta will take part in the recording of the next Echo Us album. Henta, a singer/songwriter originally from the UK has recorded three solo albums as well as numerous collaborations. Her angelic vocals express the female element just below the surface on The Tide Decides, and give a much bigger dimension to the sound of Echo Us. An edit of a mix in progress (Mirror In The Window) is available here , as well as two other song samples. 9.01.09: Lords of Metal published the latest interview about the album for their new issue, calling The Tide Decides the most mysterious album of the year. Check it out at their website! 8.12.09: A new interview about The Tide Decides is now published by the Prognaut site. Check out the updates to the media page for another interview and more articles. More to come in September! 7.25.09: In addition to the clips available here, the album is available for full previews @ last.fm You can also request songs on these radio stations 7.6.09: The Tide Decides is now available! To order proceed here or find out more about the release on the Tide Decides Page. The album is also available through cdbaby and amazon.com (as well as other worldly amazon sites) and www.musearecords.com 6.29.09: Final release details and album extras are in! The Tide Decides Notebook is now posted. The Notebook begins with a poetry synopsis of the album and concludes with full lyrics. The cd-album will be available for order on this site on 7-6-2009 as well as through Musea and many of their distributors by 7-8-2009. This week a review is published in Background Magazine and you can see more reviews here6.09.09 There is an audio interview from late 2005 added to the site that was almost long lost, but dredged up thanks to David Vessel from Escape From Noise Radio. You can listen to it here In keeping up with the very distant past, we also have been posting old Greyhaven live footage on youtube. Check out the Absolute Probability channel The official release
date for The Tide Decides is set for July 6th. Very soon another piece
of this puzzle will be seen exclusively on www.echous.net, a short ebook
about the concept album 4.15.09 Echo Us is pleased to announce a partnership with Musea Records for the release of the conceptual album “The Tide Decides” this July, 2009. The album will be released under the imprint Musea Parallèle, Musea’s arm for ‘fusion’ releases. It is with pleasure to be working once again with Musea, who also distributed Greyhaven’s debut (Angular Records) and has such a strong history in progressive music. Stay tuned up for a lot more information on this opus of an album! 01.16.09 Echo Us recorded with Raelyn Olson once again in late November of 2008. The sessions were expansive and very smooth at the same time, bringing a new glimmer to the Echo Us sound and too the third album that is working it’s way toward the mix stages. Not to get to far ahead, you may have noticed that we have the final sound samples up for The Tide Decides. We still hope for an early spring release, and if not summer at the latest. It has been a long time for this project, and as you can tell from the sound samples a lot went into the audio production of this release. There are forthcoming announcements in the next few weeks once we are totally settled in Portland again. Hope everyone is having a great start to 2009!
9.27.08 Release planning for The Tide Decides is now underway, and a few selected songs from the album were added to playlists of a few progressive radio shows in the past month. Ethan plans on moving the studio once more before the release of the album, and after that time work will continue on the release as well as work on EU3. EU3 is titled "Tomorrow Will Tell The Story" and unlike The Tide Decides it is shaping up to be much more compact. Ethan is working with a different mix system and the album is musically made up of samples from The Tide Decides. An interesting twist on sample based music, EU3 does what other ambient projects have been doing to some extent, but instead decides to comment on itself rather than sampling external music's. Almost all the music was composed in short bursts of spontaneity. At this time, Echo Us plans on again instilling the harp talents of Raelyn Olson who also played on The Tide Decides. We have updated the Vantage Points section with some archived photos. There is also a very interesting interview from AEA zine posted in the interviews section which is a new posting for this site.
9.5.2008 Echo Us' album release of The TIde Decides will feature a 2 page notebook of chronological poetry pertaining to the album. The piece is a stream of consciousness in one sense, but dovetails in order with the musical peices on the album taking the whole experience in a new direction. It's the first time we've done anything of the sort with Echo Us or past projects, so it should be a fun and novel experience. The Tide Decides Notebook will be distributed within the cd, and will not be available from major shops such as amazon or cd baby where custom packaging is prohibitive. All the better to support the independent webstores and www.echous.net because we have more control over what goes out through those channels.
7.31.07 3.3.07: Our portal here will undergo a vast makeover very soon. Some final changes and additions to The Tide Decides are taking place, incognito for the time being..
9.23.06: Echo Us' album "The Tide Decides" has it's tracklisting posted at the myspace page: Also, a rough soundbite of the song "State of Expectation is also featured at myspace. The Tide Decides is in it's final stages of production and we hope to release it in early 2007. But as with everything Echo Us nobody knows for sure what the timing of this will be
4.04.06: A new interview with Ethan was added to the press section recently. Echo Us continue work on the new album, as well as updating the studio with some new kit. Aaron Bell of Degree Absolute will be adding some bass tracks at some point as well. As it stands now the album should see a late 2006 release. Echo Us was also featured on the Dark Horizons fundraiser cd for 2006. The sampler is currently the only way to hear anything from the upcoming album! 10.30.05: Ethan recently did an interview for Escape From Noise Radio which will be available soon at www.efn.purplenote.com and also as a podcast. Production progress is still in effect on the next Echo Us album, due out in 2006. 04.16.05: “Echo Us” (s/t) is now available via I-Tunes and has been reviewed in Explicitly Intense Magazine (www.explicitlyintense.com), Zillo Musik Magazine (Germany www.zillo.com) and others upcoming such as Industrial Nation (see press). Things are moving along very wel now and we'll begin recording the second album this summer which will feature Raelyn Olson, a folk and orchestral harpist from Portland, OR. We’ve started planning this and it sounds like it will be a really nice musical partnership and my first musical collaboration in quite some time. 02.02.05: Ethan is also preparing to start recording a second disc starting this summer. All else unknown for now- but there are some announcements coming in the next few months. 01.02.05 Currently the Ninthwave Records sampler WXJL vol. 3 is floating about- mostly as a free promo through A Different Drum www.adifferentdrum.com. So the album will be available on the major websites/mail orders (including cdbaby.com) on February 1st. You can ofcourse get them direct from www.absoluteprobability.com as well. Happy new year and have a fun one !
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