Martin Archer & Bo Meson - Echoic Enchantment

Visualised as a modern classical piece but sonically recorded as a rock album, Echoic Enchantment is a 56 minute piece composed by Martin Archer (Music) and Bo Meson (words), with both men contributing to the performance. Using strings, prepared piano, electronic treatments, percussion, double bass, organ and glockenspiel, the music has a vast and sprawling nature, the opening sections allowing the bass to build the tension until droning strings and percussion solidify the musical landscape allowing the words to dance between the notes. With some instrumentation based on loose structure and other improvised there is a delightful balance between flow and discord, the music having an vitality and tension that lifts it from Minimalism into more Avant Garde territory suggesting the kind of music early Tangerine Dream would have made had they been an orchestra. With the words sparsely scattered throughout the piece it is the music that pulls you in, engaging, sometimes challenging, always interesting and fans of Cage, Stravinsky, free jazz or the music of Henry Cow and Slapp Happy may find much to enjoy. - PTOLOMAIC TERRASCOPE

Bo Meson - voice, electronic treatments
Martin Archer - clarinet, organ & electronics
Peter Fairclough - percussion
Steve Dinsdale - percussion
Johnny Hunter - percussion
Walt Shaw - percussion
Philip Thomas - prepared piano
Simon H Fell - double bass
Paul Schatzberger - violin
Aby Vulliamy - viola
Angela Rosenfeld - cello
Wolfgang Seel - voice
Julie Archer - voice
Liz Searle - voice