''Echos'' is the eighth studio album by Switzerland-based
Gothic rock
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie a ...
band
Lacrimosa
The ''Lacrimosa'' (Latin for " weeping/tearful"), also a name that derives from ''Our Lady of Sorrows'', a title given to The Virgin Mary, is part of the Dies Irae sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass. Its text comes from the Latin 18th an ...
. It features classically influenced Gothic-themed rock music. The title is
German
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for "echoes". The record was released on 27 January 2003 by Hall Of Sermon.
Style
Echos begins with an orchestral
overture
Overture (from French ''ouverture'', "opening") in music was originally the instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overt ...
of 13 minutes length and continues with a mix of symphonic elements and hard rock that is typical of Lacrimosa. However the entire album is oriented towards classical instruments rather than hard electric guitars.
[ Singer ]Anne Nurmi
Anne Marjanna Nurmi (born 22 August 1968) is a Finnish singer, composer and keyboard player who is a member of the band Lacrimosa. She lives in Switzerland.
Nurmi was born in Tampere. In her youth she sang in church choirs and began playing ke ...
's only solo track "Apart" has been compared to music by the Cocteau Twins
Cocteau Twins was a Scottish rock band active from 1979 to 1997. They were formed in Grangemouth by Robin Guthrie (guitars, drum machine) and Will Heggie (bass), adding Elizabeth Fraser (vocals) in 1981 and replacing Heggie with multi-instrum ...
.[ Generally, the album has been seen as a typical work by Lacrimosa.]
Reception
The album received positive reviews from the critics and stayed in the German charts
The GfK Entertainment charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment (formerly Media Control and Media Control GfK International), a subsidiary of GfK, on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindust ...
for four weeks peaking at position 13.Allmusic
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'' lauded the subtlety of the songs[ while the German ''Laut'' magazine was positive about Lacrimosa following their own concept instead of being influenced by expectations from the fans.][ While writing a very positive review, the German ''Powermetal'' magazine still marked that producer and composer ]Tilo Wolff
Tilo Wolff (born 10 July 1972) is a German musician and artist. He was born in Frankfurt am Main and currently lives in Switzerland.
His longest-running project is the band Lacrimosa, which since its debut in 1990 has produced 11 albums. The b ...
's musical concept had begun to become too abstract and demanding for a broad audience to comprehend.[
]
Track listing
Special edition
There is also "Special edition", released by 'Scarecrow Records' (SC03067) at the same time and only released in Mexico, it contains a bonus track, "Road to Pain" (4:21), and a slightly different Digipack which also contains a second booklet with the Spanish translation of the lyrics (except "Road to Pain").
Personnel
*Cello, Violin amben– V. Sondeckis
*Choir – Rosenberg Ensemble
*Choir lt– Melanie Kirschke, Uli Brandt, Ursula Ritter
*Choir ass– Frederick Martin, Joachim Gebardt*
*Choir opran– Bettina Hunold, Catharina Boutari, Raphaela Mayhaus
*Choir enor– Klaus Bülow, Olaf Senkbeil, Yenz Leonhard*
*Concertmaster pielmann-schnyder Philharmonie– Ludgar Hendrich
*Conductor eutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg– Günter Joseck
*Conductor pielmann-schnyder Philharmonie– Christopher Clayton
*Design – Tilo Wolff
*Design ainted By– Stelio Diamantopoulos
*Double Bass – Katharina Bunners
*Drums – Manne Uhlig, Thomas Nack
*Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass, Mellotron – Jay P. (3)
*Keyboards, Voice – Anne Nurmi
*Orchestra – Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (also known as ''Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg'' or DFOB in German) is a symphony orchestra and music studio based in Potsdam, Germany.
It was founded in 1918 as Ufa-Sinfonieorchester and was re-established ...
*Spielmann-Schnyder Philharmonie* Performer – Lacrimosa
*Piano, Programmed By, Voice – Tilo Wolff
*Viola – Sebastian Marock
*Violin st– Stefan Pintev
*Violin nd– Rodrigo Reichel
*Written, composed, arranged, orchestrated, produced by Tilo Wolff
*Mastered by Herge Halvé
*Photography – Burgis Wehry
References
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2003 albums
Lacrimosa (band) albums