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A new year, a new look. The re-design may have taken a while and it's surely not finished, but it's coming along. Also, there will be new "free to stream" tracks coming soon.

I've been making some tracks available on SoundCloud for free streaming in anticipation of some new commercial releases.  Please feel free to enjoy!  And, there's more to come soon.

https://soundcloud.com/echo-mensa/sets/new-echo-mensa/s-gkgs6

Well...it was a nervous time over the past few weeks. I had the audacity to think that I could release an album on my own. I've been on many albums in the past under various names, but this time it was different. This time it was going to be totally solo with no support from anyone else...period. And then I thought "how will anyone even know the album exists?" Well panic turned to action in the form of some shameless self-promotion. But....what if people hate it? Oh no! What have I done? Well you never…

With the new year a day away it's a good time to think about music from the past that holds special meaning. With music, it's easy to get stuck in the past. We have such a visceral connection to music that it often defines entire periods of our lives. A few bars from a distant tune and suddenly we can recall all the feelings of that time. It's really quite extraordinary.

There are a couple of albums from the recent past that I still play constantly because, to me, they represent a sort of pinnacle in the…

Have a happy and safe holiday! Best wishes to all.

Hey! This site is so new we put arachnids in the server because we wanted web crawlers! Dumb joke, yeah, but it makes an all-too-true point. It's hard to get anything noticed today...but we'll try to keep it at least semi-interesting! Let us know how we're doing and hopefully we'll get better at it.

A good place to start would be talking about music. Well, who's music do we like? Well, the list could go on forever, but Depeche Mode has to be on top. It's hard to believe that they've been together for so…