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I preordered a copy of the new Echolyn album last week. Up on their website there are some video clips of the writing session. Sounds like some good material to me. The title track takes a melody from the finale of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. Strangely enough I ripped the same melody in a phrase of the guitar solo to "Pleiades". Then again who doesn't steal from Stravinsky a little now and then.

I also picked up Ray Weston's (Echolyn vocalist, bassist) solo album "This is my Halo". I'd been meaning to get this for awhile. Been listening to it in the car the last couple of days. There is some really great material on there. Ray has a good ear for unusual and beautiful melodies.

And to complete my Echolyn purchase I picked up the reissue of "As The World". I got the original back in the 90s but this one came with a DVD of them playing live right before the record came out so I had to get it.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm a pretty big fan of Echolyn's music. In fact their last release "mei" is my favorite CD ever.