Genevieve:
Cabin Fever:
This Curving Track:
Where the Spirit Rests:
My new album "The Land We Knew the Best" is the Uncut Magazine "Album of the Month." There's a four-page spread with an interview and a lovely 9/10 review. Feeling very grateful for this and for all the help I had making the album and getting it ready for release. Out on January 24th via Glitterhouse Records.
This is one I didn't see coming. Though I have known this for a couple of days, today I can announce that my solo album "Where the Spirit Rests" is one of the ten winners of the 2021 "German Record Critics Prize" (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik). This long running juried prize honors a cross-section of styles and genres and this year the selected records include a Mahler symphony and the live album from the incredible Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood.
Today we launched the pre-sale for my new solo album via Bandcamp. The album will be available via Glitterhouse (Europe) and Drums & Wires (North America). It will be out on June 4th. You can order the LP / CD / download here: https://bit.ly/33tXhp
Here's the video for the album's title track: https://bit.ly/3vMLGOE
The images for the video were generously loaned to me by Robin Mellway. I found his gorgeous super 8 films of the north american west on Youtube. I am very thankful that he allowed me to include his work in the video as I think there is a strong connection between the song and these images.
Here is the image video for my new song "Early Snow":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eLvPeDtBfc
This was the first song I finished writing for the upcoming solo album - almost exactly a year ago. Alastair McNeill joins me on analog synth and production.
The album "Where the Spirit Rests" is out on June 4th. It's available for pre-order via Glitterhouse mail order and "Early Snow" can be streamed at the usual places: https://linktr.ee/ChrisEckman
After a few years of not making any new music, things got a little bit carried away. The 2018 discography:
Dirtmusic - Bu Bir Rya
The Strange - Echo Chamber
Distance, Light & Sky - Gold Coast
Katalena - Človek ni zver (producer)
Chloe Mons - Hôtel de l'univers (producer)
A big thanks to all the stand up, hyper-talented people I worked with on these. I feel damn lucky to have been included.
I was part of an unforgettable performance put together by my good friend Rupert Huber (from Tosca and L/O/N/G) and the visionary folks at net:art. Rupert, Richard Dorfmeister and drummer Maria Petrova played in front of an audience in Vienna and myself and several others sang/played along in real-time via super high speed internet. Vienna, Ljubljana, Barcelona, Prague, NYC and Judenburg, Austria were all part of the soundscape.
