Dear press,
please find below the key information about PRIDE & JOY MUSIC’s October 16th, 2015 release in co-operation with Sonic11 Records: Echoes – Barefoot From The Moon
This release will be available as CD, digital download and DVD and was recorded in December 2014 in Aschaffenburg, Germany. iTunes will release a special “Deluxe Edition” which will include one bonus track.
ECHOES is the most successful German PINK FLOYD tribute band since 20 years and will support this release with 21 live German shows during the next months. The band is fronted by Oliver Hartmann on vocals and guitars who is known from his work with the bands Hartmann, Avantasia & Rock Meets Classic.
DVD trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI97wi4Tch4
ECHOES – Barefoot To The Moon
After performing hundreds of concerts throughout Europe, enchanting thousands of people and playing festivals alongside all time greats like Jethro Tull, Joe Cocker, Manfred Mann and Asia, Echoes are now one of the premier Pink Floyd Tribute Bands. To echo the music has never been enough for this band and so the elaborate live shows convey the grandeur in all its facets. The "Süddeutsche Zeitung" simply calls it a spectacle.
In 2014 "Pink Floyd’s star pupils" (Vogtland-Anzeiger) ventured a new course and on top of their typically atypical renditions of Pink Floyd’s music they dared an experiment: the Pink Floyd acoustic concert - no amps, no safety net and no smoke and mirrors. Is that even possible? Can music that lives and breathes sprawling soundscapes, intricate cascades of electronic noise and intense atmospheric density be reduced to such austerity that the spirit isn’t lost? Or simply put, can you walk barefoot to the dark side of the moon?
With the acoustic show "Barefoot To The Moon" Echoes present their answer. The band centered around extraordinary guitarist and singer Oliver Hartmann (Rock Meets Classic, Avantasia) carefully dismantles the complex arrangements of the British art rock giants and uses only elementary and partly very unique Instruments to reduce the songs to their fundamental composition. All the while making sure that none of the magic is lost, but rather focused and so familiar sounds slightly change color and thus far unknown shades emerge. This stripped state shows a fascinatingly fragile beauty, that could not have been perceived before. Echoes reveals the essence of Pink Floyd.
The exceptional atmosphere of this acoustic concert reflects not only in the music but also the familiar setting; candles instead of a laser show, a string section instead of keyboard sounds, reduction instead of inflation. Floydian grandeur turns into intimate music experience, borne by creativity, wit, charm and respect for the makers who are Pink Floyd.
This CD, recorded at the sold out Stadttheater Aschaffenburg, impressively documents the memorable evening and manifests the music of Pink Floyd in a way that it has not been heard before.
Tracklist CD: 1. Shine on you crazy diamond, 2. High hopes, 3. Welcome to the machine, 4. Wish you were here, 5. The great gig in the sky, 6. The happiest day of our lives, 7. Another brick in the wall Part 2, 8. Hey you, 9. Nobody home, 10. Comfortably numb, 11. Money, 12. Run like hell
Line-up: Oliver Hartmann (Acoustic Guitar, Vocals); Martin Hofmann (Vocals, Acoustic Bass, Gitarre); Paul Kunkel (Piano, Vocals); Steffen Maier (Drums & Percussion); Michael Unger (Woodwinds & Vocals); Carolin Riehemann (Vocals); Irena Morisáková (Cello); Terezie Fadrná (Cello); Milena Kolárovà (Violin); Alice Vasilová (Violin)
