echolocation

Product Description
Echolocation is the debut album from Fruit Bats. Imaginary pop hits about the unsettling nature of the great outdoors, murderous fireflies and vengeful pigeons. Imagine Eno and Elton John wrecking a campfire sing-along. Timeless sounds finding the calm in absurdity. Echolocation creates a world where gentle harmonies and subtle guitars frame lines like "arms ripped off by shooting stars". Mandolin and marimbas lead into a chorus where “ The light refracts through the glass in your feet". Dirty country fiddles bend into synthesizer lines and icebergs into garlic fields. Where perfect falsetto pop mixes with images of urban writer’s block and Vikings high on mushrooms all in the same song. It’s sexual, space age country music about seeing the beauty in natural disaster. It makes perfect sense. It shouldn’t but it does.

Songwriter/ Fruit Bats mastermind Eric Johnson has worked as a tour guide in a model home, adventure footwear salesman, pizza delivery driver/ assistant manager and spent the last few years as a banjo teacher at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. He also plays guitar, casio and banjo in Califone.

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echolocation

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Quiet Vacation
New yet Old Thoughtful and relaxing
soothing
Creative, poetic rock
A Journey to find a Hidden Gem

echolocation
Fruit Bats
Manufacturer: Perishable
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005NZ4V
Release Date: 2001-09-17

Tracks:

the old black hole
glass in your feet
buffalo & deer
need it just a little
black bells
strange little neck of the woods
echolocation stomp
coal age
filthy water
a dodo egg
dragon ships
blue parachute

Album Description

Echolocation is the debut album from Fruit Bats. Imaginary pop hits about the unsettling nature of the great outdoors, murderous fireflies and vengeful pigeons. Imagine Eno and Elton John wrecking a campfire sing-along. Timeless sounds finding the calm in absurdity. Echolocation creates a world where gentle harmonies and subtle guitars frame lines like "arms ripped off by shooting stars". Mandolin and marimbas lead into a chorus where “ The light refracts through the glass in your feet". Dirty country fiddles bend into synthesizer lines and icebergs into garlic fields. Where perfect falsetto pop mixes with images of urban writer's block and Vikings high on mushrooms all in the same song. It's sexual, space age country music about seeing the beauty in natural disaster. It makes perfect sense. It shouldn't but it does.

Songwriter/ Fruit Bats mastermind Eric Johnson has worked as a tour guide in a model home, adventure footwear salesman, pizza delivery driver/ assistant manager and spent the last few years as a banjo teacher at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. He also plays guitar, casio and banjo in Califone.

Customer Reviews:

Quiet Vacation.......2005-02-18

It's that spontaneous trip to the cabin. Sitting by the lake, wrapped in gentle mountain weather. No one else around but those few close friends. Watching deer graze nearby. Every star is exposed. Skinny-dipping in the lake. Crickets whispering to each other. Your marshmellow just fell in the fire.

Heavenly and delectable. For the escapist in all of us.

New yet Old Thoughtful and relaxing.......2003-06-15

I play this CD when I want to let my mind wonder thinking about the Falls of the Neuse river flowing slowly to the ocean, when I'm relaxing over a beer, or just looking to escape from a a hectic day. Thanks for the music Eric. You're quite a talent!

soothing.......2003-04-19

This album reminds of the very best of a Midwestern summer: the bugs at night, a cloudless sky, bike rides in the country. I am still amazed that people say there is "no good music" out there. The problem I have encountered is that it is hidden away in the musical underground, a place where, I suppose, almost everything good about this country hides anymore.

Creative, poetic rock.......2002-01-15

Fruit Bats feed upon a country-rock americana folk, doing it in a stylistic fashion that is pleasingly unique. They use mandolins, banjos, marimbas and acoustic guitars coupled with super-rock sets and minimalistic country sounds that provide the listener with varied, distinctive sounds. Eric Johnson adds to the diversity with his poetic lyrics; the total CD creation draws one to want to listen to this album multiple times. I have yet to get tired of it. When I saw Fruit Bats perform, they we were pleasing, as well.

A Journey to find a Hidden Gem.......2001-12-14

The Fruit Bats take the listener on a journey that transports one through multi-layered cuts of CoRoFo (Country, Rock, Folk in an Alt. way). The Fruit Bats music emerges sounding as if it met its Dylanesque meets James Taylor and Mark Knopfler or the Beatles counterpart. The genius is it possesses multiple layers of meaning but you are only obligated to delve as deep as you choose on a given day. You still win. Listened to this while driving the car, with headset, with my friends and while sipping wine.

The music has a simple yet sophisticated feel. Songwriter Eric Johnson is skilled at massaging words. The Fruit Bats, some of the best musicians of this genre, meld a national geographic type of verbal visualizatiom with creative, deftly unique melodic mixes. Some pieces carry the day with Johnson doing instrumentation nearly all on his own. Most others almost give you the feeling of an orchestral sound that draws in the listener.

I love percussion. It is effective, yet understated percussion with pleasant surprises.

There is nothing formula about this CD and anyone who loves music will appreciate its honesty, inner depth, and fun time during bad times feeling.

Echolocation
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Echolocation
Baze
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000FSMGWW
Release Date: 2006-01-03