There is
… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least twelve artists using the name Echo.
There is
- a Taiwanese indie pop band (回聲樂團);
- a China Mainland pop band (see below);
- a Swiss folk band with the name written as 'eCHo';
- an electronic group from the United States (see below);
- a Japanese hardcore band;
- a French electronic producer, (see below);
- a Hungarian pop band from the 70s;
-shoegaze indie artist with an album titled “adjust”
- a guitar-based 5-piece from Bad Segeberg in Germany (who recorded the three 'demo' tracks here);
- a hip hop group from Poland;
- a metal band from Israel and also an alternative rapper from Israel
- a Drum & Bass producer and DJ from the U.S.A. (San Francisco).
- a Romanian Progressive Rock group.
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The Chinese Mainland pop band, echo, started their career as indie band in Wuhan, and released the debut album "Echo" in 2007. The theme song from 'New Shanghai (新上海滩)' - 歌未央 (ge1 wei2 yang1, The Song not Ended) hits the public and makes them first known.
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Echo, a project from producers/multi instrumentalists JOY ASKEW & TAKUYA NAKAMURA, a seductive fusion of tradicional vocal jazz and downtempo electronic grooves.
On their eponymous debut, the New York duo puts a mesmerizing stamp on carefully-chosen jazz standards, as well as captivating originals. Echo was born from NYC's live drum & bass scene. Askew initially discovered Nakamura playing trumpet and keyboards at the SoHo nightclub Shine's popular party "Prohibited Beatz". The rotating live line-up of DJs, MCs, and diverse musicians inspired Askew instantly, because it reminded her of one of her biggest influences: Miles Davis' late-'60s electric period (In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew).
"At Shine I was seeing jazz re-emerging in a fresh way, because there's so much more technology to play with, and so many different directions you can go in, with drum and bass rhythms, and all the possibilities offered by electronics."
Askew and Nakamura began to collaborate. One afternoon at Askew's apartment, Nakamura played her a new track he'd been working on. "It was this great, bubbly rhythm," she recalls, and it inspired her to start singing the Cole Porter standard "I've Got You Under My Skin." The two seemingly disparate components fit hand-in-glove, and "within 20 minutes, we'd almost recorded the whole thing." By marrying the relaxed rhythmic undercurrents and cutting-edge production techniques with more-traditional songwriting, the pair had hit upon a unique direction for Echo.
One of the album's most affecting (and revealing) tracks is the moody, sensually rhythmic "Secret Self," inspired by Askew's long-standing love of Beat Generation authors like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac. In fact, the specific impetus, according to the singer, was listening to the excerpt "Jazz of the Beat Generation" from the CD "Jack Kerouac Reads On The Road".
Besides his current work with live drum and bass act Nerve and neo-soul outfit Organic Grooves, Takuya Nakamura has played with such jazz notables as flugelhorn great Clark Terry, drummer/arranger Bob Moses, and saxophonist Ravi Coltrane.
Taken from Echo's website
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ECHO was born in France during the year of 1971 and in the 1990's he played with several pop bands as both a bassist and a guitarist, however he always felt slightly frustrated that somehow he could not quite express himself fully. So three years ago he shut himself in a room and began the journey in nurturing his craft, where he developed into the outstanding musical producer that we see today.
Myspace gave ECHO the opportunity to gain exposure and within four months, he had obtained world wide air play and interest from record companies in the U.S, Germany and of course his native France.
Can also be found on last.fm as Echo (Fr) & Echo Armando, although officially it's just 'Echo'.
A Dream
Echo Lyrics
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We make sure to stay dry
Turn into a righteous rainbow
Saturn is alive
We have all such limited time
We know we can't simply press rewind
Eating in an alien restaurant
Collecting specials from my favorite haunts
We know we can't simply press rewind
We have to know our worth
Before we can love ourselves
We have all such limited time
We know we can't simply press rewind
The song "A Dream" by Echo is about the strange and disorienting experience of being in a dream. The lyrics describe the feeling of being trapped in a dream, where everything seems familiar but also off-kilter. The walls are getting higher and the singer fears that they will fall and crush them. They also feel a sense of foreboding, as if something is watching them.
Despite the fear and uncertainty, the singer also recognizes that there is a strange kind of beauty in the dream world. Wars and violence still exist, but they are distant and surreal. The dream world is like true life, but somehow better.
The repeated refrain of "It's just a dream" serves to reassure the singer (and the listener) that this experience is not real, that it is only temporary, and that they will eventually wake up.
Overall, the song captures the feelings of confusion, fear, and wonder that often accompany the experience of being in a dream. It is a thoughtful and introspective take on a common human experience.
Line by Line Meaning
Walking in a strange light, looking at the walls
Echo feels disorientated as she walks down the unfamiliar path and gazes at the towering walls.
The walls are getting higher and I think they're gonna fall
Echo feels trapped as the walls around her seem to close in with an impending doom.
They're gonna fall down over me, crush me till I scream
Echo feels like she is suffocating as the walls close in, making her feel trapped and helpless.
Now I'm only hoping that I'm living in a dream
Echo is hoping that the situation is not real and is only a product of her imagination.
It's just a dream;it's just a dream;
Echo keeps repeating that it's just a dream, in an attempt to convince herself that it's not real.
Fear lies over me, I feel it all around
Echo is a victim of anxiety and feels the sensation of fear overwhelming her senses.
Something's looking at me and I think it's got a crown
Echo is being watched by something that seems to hold an elevated position or authority, causing her to feel even more intimidated.
It's not a king or a queen but something in between
Echo is unsure what the entity is that is watching her, but it's causing her to feel a sense of unease and worry.
Wars and violence here happen every day
Echo is aware of the violence that takes place in the real world and that it is a constant occurrence.
But I'm in another world a million miles away
Echo feels detached from the real world as she has entered into her own dream world, where the violence is not present.
It's just like real life, true life, living in a dream
Echo is acknowledging how similar her dream world is to the real world, yet she knows that it is just a dream.
But everything is better then, or that's the way it seems
Echo believes that her dream world is better than the real world, but she knows that it's not real and that it's only a temporary escape.
Living in a dream living in a dream living in a dream
Echo accepts that she is living in a dream and repeats the phrase to highlight her awareness of the situation.
Lyrics © DistroKid
Written by: Gary Wilson
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