Echo Collective

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Echo Collective are a Brussels-based orchestral ensemble, founded by Neil Leiter and Margaret Hermant, working in the post-classical world. Echo Collective make interpretations of genres as diverse as alt.rock, synth-pop and black metal, and also create their own original music.

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The ensemble was created when Margaret Hermant and Neil Leiter collaborated with Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran's A Winged Victory For The Sullen. The American-born Leiter was introduced to Wiltzie by their mutual friend, the composer and musician Caroline Shaw.

Echo Collective Plays Amnesiac (2018) is a  re-working of the Radiohead album Amnesiac . [1] [2] [3] [4]

They collaborated with Erasure to create a classical reworking of album World Be Gone , entitled World Beyond and recorded in Brussels in November 2017, featuring seven of there performers including Margaret Hermant on Violin and Harp, Neil Leiter on Viola, Thomas Engelin on Cello, Jaroslaw Mroz on Double Bass, Gart de Cart on piano and Antoine Dandoy on Vibraphone and Glockenspiel [5]

12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann (2019) is  an album of reworked music by Jóhann Jóhannsson, in line with Jóhannsson's wishes. The suite is inspired by the work of the German abstract painter Thilo Heinzmann. [6] [7] [8]

The Sea Within (2020) is an album of Echo Collective's original music. [9]

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Contributions to albums

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References

  1. ↑ "Spill Album Review: Echo Collective – Echo Collective Plays Amnesiac". The Spill Magazine . 30 March 2018. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  2. ↑ Sweeney, Eamon. "Everything in a new place: The art of reimagining Radiohead". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  3. ↑ "Echo Collective Pays a Glorious Homage to Radiohead's 'Amnesiac'". PopMatters . 29 March 2018. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  4. ↑ "Echo Collective's Take On 'I Might Be Wrong' Is Truly Stunning". Clash Magazine. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  5. ↑ "Erasure - World Beyond - (CD Album)".
  6. ↑ "Jóhann Jóhannsson: 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  7. ↑ "John Lewis's contemporary album of the month: Jóhann Jóhannsson: 12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann". The Guardian. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  8. ↑ "Echo Collective: Jóhann Jóhannsson's '12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann". Barbican. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  9. ↑ 27 October 2020 http://7k.k7.com/echo-collective-the-see-within/
  10. ↑ "Maps – 'Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss' review". NME . 8 May 2019. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
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