
Still: Echoes - The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 15
The title of this CD, the 15th in 20 years, has a few meanings. There's an oblique reference to Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years as well as the old-rockers-reforming movie, Still Crazy. Its deeper meaning though is, we're still here, and still doing what we set out to accomplish 20 years ago: creating a soundscape of music that sets an entrancing, intoxicating mood, slipping through the cracks of consciousness and into a new world where ancient and future, technology and primitivism, virtuosity of technique and purity of spirit converge.
Still: Echoes, like our 14 previous Living Room Concert CDs, continues to exemplify the Echoes soundscape, bringing together music that is as ancient as a Renaissance lute and Indian sitar and as futuristic as a mutantrumpet and looping cellos. All those elements appear on Still: Echoes with Ronn McFarlane, Fernwood, Ben Neill and Matthew Schoening. Still: Echoes is a journey through pastoral fields and Blade Runner dreams, world music fusions and Celtic rev