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Andrew
Eckel's new album Make a Laser Sound is
a 15-track, kaleidoscopic funk-fest with
unexpected harmonies
and unpredictable lyrics. There are several songs
about love (some celebrating it, some cynical
about it), several
following a stream of consciousness, and others
about a sanitation workers' strike, a hostage
situation in a restaurant,
guards at an art museum, and the 2007 Boston bomb
scare caused by LED signs advertising a cartoon
(Aqua Teen
Hunger Force). Eckel sings, raps (a little), and
plays piano, drums, marimba, vibraphone, and
more, and sixteen of
his friends show up to play other instruments.
The making of Make a Laser Sound was an
ambitious, two-year project in Cambridge, MA. For
the first time, Eckel
would show the influence of his favorite album,
Beck's Odelay, as well as other
ambitious musical cyclones like Boys
For Pele (Tori Amos), Flood and Lincoln
(They Might Be Giants), Remain in Light
(Talking Heads), Blond on Blonde
(Bob Dylan), Since I Left You
(Avalanches), and Paul's Boutique
(Beastie Boys). The plan was also to cram as many
good ideas as possible into every single track,
and to jump at any lucky opportunity to put
interesting instruments on
the album. This resulted in the use of many
players from the MIT Wind Ensemble, a
harpsichord, a Turkish crescent,
a waterphone, video game sounds, a toy piano, six
backup singers, and a Fender Rhodes. The album
was made on a
$0 budget, using no recording studios, but Andrew
mixed the album with painstaking precision,
putting in the kind of
extra time that almost no outside producer
would've ever spent on it, so it the entire album
glistens and shines like
the kind of expensive album that would have
bankrupted his record label, if he had one. Make
a Laser Sound is full
of surprises and is available at AndrewEckel.com.Online reviews : Anti-Gravity Bunny / Indie-Music.com
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