Completing their cycle of mixtape albums, ECHOES is Orchestra of Swan’s third album on Signum Classics. Featuring works by artists including JS Bach, Philip Glass, and Frank Zappa and some new arrangements by Artistic Director, David Le Page.
“Although you can listen to each track in isolation Echoes is, first and foremost, a complete journey; the way a work ends and another begins is designed to create a frisson, a jolt of recognition or a feeling of surprise and satisfaction. Echoes explores landscape, light, water, dreams, birth, and the slowly changing rhythm of the seasons; it also represents a callback to the days of vinyl when the act of listening to recordings was necessarily more involved and required all of your attention… Despite the ongoing march of music technology and the death of various beloved formats the mixtape has somehow survived and adapted It is unaccountably more popular than it has ever been” – David Le Page
ALBUM OF THE WEEKEND “This album is going to be huge..Timelapse and Labyrinth, have had 7.5 million audio streams since January 2021 …we know it’s probably going to be even bigger” – Scala Radio
“Listen to it end to end for an eclectic mix of sophisticated sounds; favourite tracks include Philip Sheppard’s Buffalo Jump and a tender arrangement of Venus Furs…it’s another lovely collection. Roll on the next release” – Thoroughly Good Blog
“It is the sheer eclecticism of the disc that is so appealing. from that re-imagined Vivaldi straight to the fierce energy of Phillip Shepherds Buffalo Jump in a performance ie magnificent, fiery energy from the Orchestra of the Swan; and then, the jarring contrast to the madcap Peaches en Regalia by Frank Zappa, a phenomenal four minutes of fun…Echoes is a vibrant journey, its contents perfectly considered, the superb performances beautifully delivered….It is the first recording I have heard that really works in Spatial Audio: the immersive spatial element to the Max Richter in particular elevates the experience” – Classical Explorer