Fire! Orchestra – Echoes (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Fire! Orchestra – Echoes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:50:11 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rune Grammofon

Now in its 14th year, the unique and constantly evolving Fire! Orchestra is back with their most ambitious work so far as well as their largest line-up, counting a mostly Scandinavian cast of no less than 43 members. While the popular and widely praised Arrival is a highlight in both our and the band´s catalogue, this monumental triple album ups the ante.

Echoes is a two hour work of epic proportions; full of beauty, energy, haunting passages and stunning musicianship, embracing progressive rock, contemporary avantgarde, cosmic free jazz, ethnic experimentalism and more. Making all of this flow in such a natural way from beginning to end is a brilliant achievement. The album closes with a guest appearance from the mighty Joe McPhee on tenor sax and vocals on a vigorous and amusing tribute to one of the “late, great finger wigglers” (answers on a postcard…).

Recorded at the legendary Atlantis studio in Stockholm and beautifully mixed by Jim O’Rourke, Echoes comes across as a very open, breathing, organic, detailed and dynamic album.

Tracklist:
1-01. Fire! Orchestra – ECHOES: I see your eye, part 1 (09:46)
1-02. Fire! Orchestra – ECHOES: Forest without shadows (12:09)
1-03. Fire! Orchestra; Mariam Wallentin – ECHOES: To gather it all. Once. (15:46)
1-04. Fire! Orchestra – Sliding whisper of pain (03:48)
1-05. Fire! Orchestra; David Sandström; Joe McPhee – ECHOES: Lost eyes in dying hand (13:57)
1-06. Fire! Orchestra – Welcoming you. Drinking your dream. (03:34)
1-07. Fire! Orchestra – ECHOES: A lost farewell (14:29)
1-08. Fire! Orchestra – Nothing astray. All falling. (04:16)
1-09. Fire! Orchestra – In those veins. A silvernet. (03:40)
1-10. Fire! Orchestra – ECHOES: Cala Boca Menino (10:49)
1-11. Fire! Orchestra – Double loneliness (02:08)
1-12. Fire! Orchestra – Respirations (02:32)
1-13. Fire! Orchestra – Not yet born. The blind courage of life. (05:47)
1-14. Fire! Orchestra – ECHOES: I see your eye, part 2 (07:25)

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