- Michel de Jong:
- Electric and [Electro] Acoustic Guitars
- Electric Bass Guitar
- Piano, Organa, Harmonium, Percussion & Keys
- Soundscapes & Textures
- Programming
- Vocals
+ various instruments, gadgets and toys
- Alexander Nikolaos Arvanitis:
- Vocals
- Piano, Organa, Harmonium, Percussion & Keys
- Violin
- Mandolin
- Ukelele
- Didgeridoo
- Field recordings & Found sounds
+ various instruments, gadgets and toys
Influences
Michel's influences: hammock, Sigur Rós, dredg, eluvium, Jeniferever, balmorhea, Helios, múm, Björk, Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd, MONO, mogwai, The Flaming Lips, godspeed you! black emperor, Martin Grech, Oceansize, slowdive, nine inch nails, my bloody valentine, amiina, mom, Brain Eno, One Little Plane, Marilyn Manson, statedlife, Explosions in the Sky, Azure Ray, boards of canada, your ten mofo, This Will Destroy You, Caspian, Ólafur Arnalds, Peter Broderick & many more.
& Various game and movie score composers:
Alan Silvestri, Aaron Zigman, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, John Williams, Kai Rosenkranz, Koji Kondo, Matt Uelmen, Mark Snow, Russell Shaw
- Life and all its wonders;
the desire for fulfillment.
the power of companionship.
feeling a certain unity & love.
My own life standards/viewpoints.
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Alexander's influences: Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Tortoise, Sigur Rós, TV on the Radio, Blonde Redhead, múm, Amiina, Dif Juz, Boris, Isis, Mastodon, Kyuss, Slowdive, Ride, Lush, Dead Can Dance, Erik Satie, Alexander Sciabin, Richard Wagner, Claude Debussy, Joanna Newsom, Espers (plus the whole naturalismo "movement"), Sonic Youth, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Minotaur Shock, Burzum, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Piano Magic, Vangelis, Lustmord, NON, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Death in June, Current 93, Coil, Faith & the Muse and lots and lots more...
Philosophy (cosmology, postmodernism, empirism, metaphysica etc.), Pantheism, Paganism, Anarchism, Visual Arts(Symbolism, Surrealism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Conceptualism, Minimalism and postmodern art in general), Wassily Kandinsky, Laurens van Kuik, Jackson Pollock, Edvard Munch, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Life, Contemplation, Myself, Nature, Animals, Magic, Living etc.
Sounds Like
Like something we didn't initially expect. Which is cool, though, because no one else expects that either.
Echolaliá was formed in the mid of 2008 when Alexander Nikolaos Arvanitis and Michel de Jong met during a coincidence-like event. A five-month old ad escalated towards a gargantuan jam session... Echolaliá was born.
This project is still very much taking shape and drawing influences from different sides of the world and different worlds aside.
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For further contact
:: Michel MySpace.com ::
:: Alexander @ MySpace.com ::
:: Echolalia@live.nl ::
:: DemolitionColorScheme@hotmail.com ::
:: alexvankuik@gmail.com ::
