"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