Chandeen's last outing, Bikes and Pyramids, featured two female vocalists. This time around, Echoes, features a second female vocalist, Antje Buchheiser on only one track. However, the largest influence and gatekeeper of the band is Harald Löwy, has a vision and maintains the purity of this unit’s ability to achieve.

This round of Chandeen digs into the coffers of poets, pulling out pieces of deep singular introspections and mixing them with very good compositions from Antje Schulz and Harald Löwy. Lyrically, Echoes is an escalation. Using thoughts from Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Blake, these dissections of loss and remembrance are bittersweet. Each song is like a raindrop splattering into an ocean; they’re encapsulated pain and regret falling into a greater sea.

The importance of a recording such as this is to create a supportive soundtrack to the very powerful imagery that arises from the use of lyrics such as are contained on Echoes. This is never easy and explains why it’s rarely done. For those who are artistically sound and who are able to effectively merge these two mediums together, what happens is an electrifying blend of emotional output, and for the listener, intake.

With the use of the soft vocals of Antje Schulz, beautifully conveying the hurt of being lost but in such a way that it becomes a lovely place to be. Like the gentle rainfall, irritatingly rapturous in its dispensing, Echoes injects splendor into self immersion. Antje’s vocals are carried by the breeze of Harald Löwy’s music as sound carries nuance and wind carries chill. So effective is this fusion that you get what is the beauty of Chandeen.

Löwy's musical accompaniments to the timeless verses of poets create a mood music that is effective in its distribution. As in the lovely “Red Blood, Blue Soul” and it’s visitation of depression, Harald’s piano breathes life into a vivid Löwy’s musical talent with the piano is as fine a quality as you’re likely to find; being able to put a soul into the words that comprise the chosen lyrics.

Antje’s soaring and ethereal voice, sometimes whispered for effect, is a haunting effort. Chandeen’s evolutionary movement from pop to the depth they now explore with Echoes is breathtaking. Chandeen is the main ingredient of a dream. What remains is for you to visit.

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Chandeen
Echoes

Released: May 6, 2003
Origination Year: 2003
Time: 39:01
Tracks: 10
Produced by: Harald Löwy
Engineered by: Harald Löwy
Mixed by:Harald Löwy
Mastered by: Harald Löwy
Style: Studio
Format: CD
Enhancement: None
Label: Kalinkaland Records
Website:
www.chandeen.com

Indian Summer
Echoes
A Dream Within A Dream
In The Forest
Drawn By the Sea
Impressions-La Fruite De La Lune
Call of the Banshees
The Dream
Red Blood, Blue Soul
Tangled Sheen