Echo Collective’s debut album “The See Within” connects their past with the present, absorbing the experience of collaboration to feed their own inventive beauty. “Wespent the last eight years creating music with amazing people, and learning so much,” says Leiter. “And when you write your own music, you can’t help but bring those people with you.” In only a few years, Brussels-based Echo Collective have forged an enviable reputation in the post-classical world: sought out for theirinstrumental and arranging expertise by icons such as A Winged Victory For The Sullen and the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, or lending their interpretative intuition to genres as diverse as alt.rock, synth-pop and accomplishments as a springboard to a new, illuminating vision. From brief, singular themes to lengthier, shifting and questing episodes, this masterclass in composition, expression and technique bridges intimacy and grandeur in line with the most rewarding ofpost-classical works.

“The See Within” is scored and composed for violin, viola, cello, harpand, in its first appearance on an album recording, the magneticresonator piano (MRP). “All sounds are acoustic, and produced in realtime,” explain co-founders Margaret Hermant (violin, harp) and NeilLeiter (viola). “No processing or post-production other than reverb.The acoustic element is Echo Collective’s identity. A natural sound.”It’s there in the name Echo Collective. “We’re a collective, with ourroots in classical music and structure, but we are, in a sense, ashadow of that world, or an echo, whilst projecting a future sound,”says Leiter. That sound has already debuted with ‘Wistful Breath’ –recorded after the album – appearing on 7K!’s recent compilationString Layers. But “The See Within” is where Echo Collective’s enviablereputation will enter a new dimension: not only trusted accomplicesand expert interpreters but visionary composers, looking within toproject a new chapter in the ongoing development of post-classicalmusic.

• 1. Inflection Point
• 2. The See Within
• 3. From Last Night's Rain
• 4. The Witching Hour
• 5. Glitch
• 6. Unknown Gates
• 7. Respire
• 8. First Brightening