An interview with Eden Echo
An interview with Eden Echo
What inspired the name of the band? What are your influences?
The name Eden Echo has a lot of personal meaning to it, for the most part I’d like anyone interested to divine their own meaning by their own interpretation… however a theme consistent across our writing is something to do with the sense of a world alive with magic and wonder, and that world being eroded across time making way for a new world… cold, logical and starkly material. But I believe that the element I’m trying to address, the element of magic or of divinity if you like, still echoes across time and can yet be captured by those who may long for it.
Our influences are varied and diverse, some of them include
Kamelot, Opeth, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Mastodon to name only a few… Musically, Eden Echo is the product of a drastic compromise between our members’ varied tastes, interests and inclinations. The product can be more difficult to reach in this way, but we believe that ultimately it allows us to approach something novel, something that could become truly its own space.
How do you approach songwriting? Are there any themes that you are keen to explore when you start off?
Song writing for us begins with, usually, sessions of freely jamming with each other, letting whatever happens happen. Eventually when something works, we keep pressing on it, we compromise, often disagree, make cuts and should a tune survive that difficult process it blossoms into a track that we all believe in despite our wildly differing points of view. The vocals and lyrics usually come long after we’ve got some consistent song structure in place, but each song is likely to go through several major transformations between conception and its ultimate release. I should think that we’ve cut more songs than we’ve actually stuck to by a longshot.
How do you approach songwriting? Are there any themes that you are keen to explore when you start off?
Song writing for us begins with, usually, sessions of freely jamming with each other, letting whatever happens happen. Eventually when something works, we keep pressing on it, we compromise, often disagree, make cuts and should a tune survive that difficult process it blossoms into a track that we all believe in despite our wildly differing points of view. The vocals and lyrics usually come long after we’ve got some consistent song structure in place, but each song is likely to go through several major transformations between conception and its ultimate release. I should think that we’ve cut more songs than we’ve actually stuck to by a longshot.
Why do you write the sort of music that you do?
I believe that this type of music lends itself well to a committed sense of mysticism, fantasy, escapism and mythology… I am not interested in addressing the mundane external world, the things one might encounter in the media, or an ordinary day in their lives. I believe that all those external real-world experiences are better represented symbolically even melodramatically, and this sort of music really disentangles itself from anything too obvious and allows us to express ourselves more wholesomely in this way.
How do you decide what songs to perform live and how do you transpose them into that live setting?
As yet, we’ve had no trouble transposing our songs live because our process has been very straight forward so far. We rarely experiment with sounds or instruments that go beyond our basic live setup… 2 guitars a bass a kit and a mic. In the future we may find cause to experiment more and push ourselves towards different creative spaces but for the time being we are dedicated to honing our craft in such a way as to be able to create something grand but in a humble way
How do you decide what songs to perform live and how do you transpose them into that live setting?
As yet, we’ve had no trouble transposing our songs live because our process has been very straight forward so far. We rarely experiment with sounds or instruments that go beyond our basic live setup… 2 guitars a bass a kit and a mic. In the future we may find cause to experiment more and push ourselves towards different creative spaces but for the time being we are dedicated to honing our craft in such a way as to be able to create something grand but in a humble way
What plans do you have for the future?
After the release of our debut LP “Hourglass” coming very soon… we have every intention of pushing ourselves out into the world as far as we can go, more and better content, tours and shows. We want to stand beside our heroes and become one of the great bands of the world!