Echolyn's "Brett Kull's second CD is finished and being mastered at Zen Mastering in
California as we speak!!," posted Echolyn's webmaster Michael Ostrich at e-Prog and the band's newsgroup. "The album is called Last Of The Curlews and is made up of 12 new songs.
"Acadia Gulls," "Lullabies And Starlings," "Hey Horizon," "If She Could Be Who She Wanted," "Nightingale," "Halos," "Love Is On The Discarded Street," "Become A Ghost," "Autumn Endings," "Last Of The Curlews," "There Was A Place For Us," and "Windows Of Light.
Brett plays all the instruments except the drum kit, which is played by long time friend Paul Ramsey. Guest vocals by Molly Decker and Jacque Varsalona add color throughout the album. The album cover was painted by Tara Jane O'Neil specifically for this project. Brett will spend the next 2 months promoting the album by making a couple music videos, creating interest in print and on line and updating his website to correspond to the new music. The album has a late fall release date in the works. A more solid date will become evident over the next few weeks."
Also shared was an update on the remixed Cowboy Poems Free - "CPF has been re-mixed and will be sent off to get mastered asap. The artwork is 90% complete. An early fall release date is planned. The band is looking forward to re-releasing the album with its improved sound and package!" [And they played a number of tracks from the release at their stormin' CalProg 2008 appearance -- a great performance despite Ray Weston's jinxing of the LA Dodgers by shouting Go Phillies (or perhaps blessing the Phillies by shouting Go Phillies?...) -ed./Dodger fan]
Thirdly, about a new album in the works: "With one more show booked at Cal Prog on Saturday [which was, as I said, great -ed.] the band will be done focusing on live performance and able to concentrate on new music again. The show in Los Angeles, California [actually Whittier] will be [now was] the first the band has [had] played there since 1994. Rehearsals are going very well. The audio and video is being recorded for posterity and hopefully a future Live Video!" [Cool beans! Except the Go Phillies part, 'natch. Hopefully edited out. -ed.]
"The album has been on hold for the summer but the band excited to start work again this fall. So far they have working titles for 6 songs:
1. Accumulated Blur
2. Hey Little Man
3. Moments Without Sound
4. Some Memorial
5. What Comes After
6. The Cardinal and I
Who knows where those songs will end up in the final scheme of the completed album but the music promises to be fresh, with new twists and approaches to the Echolyn writing and recording process! No release date has been set...
The track "Heavy Blue Miles Live in Hengalo" was donated to Raise Money for Stan Whitaker from Happy The Man who has been diagnosed with Cancer. Details on that release will be available soon.
[Source: Echolyn (and an annoying editor); photo: Brett Kull @ CalProg 2008 (? Stephanie Sollow)]