I listened with pleasure to Echosend’s ECHOSEND. I liked the CD enough so that I can’t wait to hear their latest release. What follows is a simple, objective speed review of Echosend’s CD. No one in Echosend was consulted about the review, so I thank them in advance both for their artistic talent and then for expressing it on CD. The speeds were calibrated as carefully as possible. Echosend lays down a firm groove, but unless they ‘tweaked’ in the engineer’s oom, and I doubt that, it sounds like this entire CD was recorded live in the studio—a bold move which is not found very often today. This is the simple explanation for the numbers in parentheses below: they indicate the general tempo range of the live performances listed. If anyone wants to know a thing about what the speeds may mean, or why I write ‘reviews’ differently, or where a particular song may fit perfectly in a playlist, please visit my website, theory of which is very important to me and I hope for *others as well.*>.
All speeds are given as even eighth or quarter notes, as they were recorded.
Track#1-“Let Me In”—88.6 beats per minute (85-92). This as an enthusiastic, renewed song with driven energy about seeking love. Drummer Puckhaber and bassist Smith smoothly, slowly accelerate making this a most interesting performance. As: “Directly From My Heart,” Little Richard, 88.6 beats per minute, “Soul Free,” George Michael, 88.6 beats per minute.
Track#2-“Home”—79.2 beats per minute. A song about being lost without love, and how desperate one may feel in grieving separation from a lover. As: “Carry That Weight,” Sir Paul McCartney, live, Toronto, 12.7.1990, Tripping The Live Fantastic, 79.2 beats per minute, “Longer,” Dan Fogelberg, 79.2 beats per minute, “Pastime Paradise,” Stevie Wonder, 79.2 beats per minute, “Woman,” John Lennon , 79.9 beats per minute.
Track#3-“Jewel”—83.6 beats per minute. A song about with a grunge-angry guitar lick, vocals down in the mix and lack of lyrics in CD sleeve made individual words difficult to discern. So said, the song sounded like: how *dare* you leave me, or how dare you do that. . As: “Helter Skelter,” The Beatles, 83.6, “Mama,” Genesis, live, Way We Walk, 83.6 beats per minute, “Mama,” Genesis, live, London, Wembley Stadium, 1986, 83.6 beats per minute, “On Saturday Afternoons in 1963,” Rikki Lee Jones, 83.6 beats per minute, “Wildfire,” Michael Murphy, 83.6 beats per minute.
Track#4-“Sad Days”—68.1 beats per minute (66-71). A song about gracefully ending a relationship (as the dump*er* rather than the dump*ee*) and even though recalling bad times, wishing the person luck. As: “Laundromat Blues,” Albert King, 68.1 beats per minute (67-70), “Space Oddity,” David Bowie, 68.7 beats per minute (66-75).
Track#5-“Not Original”—87.2 beats per minute. This sounds like a song about having the strength to leave a relationship that isn’t working. As: “Disappointment,” The Cranberries, 87.2 beats per minute, ”You And Your Friend,” Dire Straits, 87.2 beats per minute “Romeo & Juliet,” Dire Straits, 87.3 beats per minute.
Track#6- “Missing You”—80.9 beats per minute (79-84). The song sounds like a most open-hearted release, almost admission, a full-out confession of missing someone and grieving over their not Being there. Very raw indeed. As:, “Independence Day,” Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, 80.8 beats per minute (79-84), “Leaving Las Vegas,” Sheryl Crow, 80.8 beats per minute, “Let’s Get It On,” Marvin Gaye, live, VH-1 black and white video, 80.8 beats per minute (79-84), “Piece Of My Heart” Janis Joplin, 80.9 beats per minute (79-83).
Track#7-“Rain”—75.7 beats per minute. This song reflects Beauty, serenity and grace after having, well, gone through some of the rawest emotions as described above. The sped of this song is coincidentally the axiomatic speed of sexual climax (Masters & Johnson, still accepted as the physiological axiomatic time of sexual peak, in both genders, the only speed during sex where both genders have a predictable rhythm for *any rate*--including heart rate and breath rate) As: “Lonely Stranger,” Eric Clapton, live, MTV Unplugged, 75.4 beats per minute, “Are You Lonesome Tonight?,” Elvis Presley,” 75.5 beats per minute, “Fire And Rain,” James Taylor, 75.6, “Imagine,” John Lennon, 75.6 beats per minute.
Submitted with Respect,
Ian Schneider
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