The Wrong Echo

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Mistakes. Tape hiss. Accidents. Layers. Residue. Skips. Internal feedback loops. Chance. All of these have a place in Bates’ work.

While sonically operating more in an electronic or even rock-mode, The Wrong Echo was crafted largely through long-distance collaborations and written, re-written, assembled and re-assembled in the studio using approaches developed in Jamaican dub music of the 1970’s.

Bates’ collaborators include a cast of friends who come from different areas of sound art and music. Christof Migone, an internationally recognized sound and radio artist is credited with playing ‘gutted reel-to-reel and contact mics’. Singer/songwriter Christine Fellows contributes piano and keyboards, Jason Tait, drummer from The Weakerthans plays drums and circuit-bent electronics. Cellist Leanne Zacharias has played with the Houston Symphony and teaches at Brandon University. Double bassist, Peter Burton, contributes textural and melodic bass lines throughout the release. Visual artist, jake moore, offers vocals soaked in reverb.

“I wanted to work with friends who were coming from different places than noise or a sort of avant-rock place, where I’m coming from. I was looking for them to push me in new ways, to respond to surprises and I kind of wanted to offer the same to them”.