A Little Nonsense (Now and Then)
A Little Nonsense: Now and Then is a 3-CD boxed set by the progressive rock band echolyn. Most notably, the set includes newly mastered versions of their long-out-of-print debut album, echolyn and EP, And Every Blossom. The masters had previously been locked away in the vaults at Epic Records/Sony Music, but were graciously returned to the band in 2000 by Michael Caplan, the A&R guy that originally signed echolyn to Sony 550 in 1994. The set also includes a newly mastered version of When the Sweet Turns Sour, the band's thought-to-be swan song of demos and live tracks from 1996. The third disc digs deep into the echolyn archives to feature an early song called "The Edge of Wonder (Erad-glitch)" from the band's demo cassette, "The Art of Group Earwax Mining" from 1989. The remainder of disc 3 features several songs from Cowboy Poems Free recorded live in the studio prior to the album's release as a demo for then-Inside Out Music executive, Jim Pitulski, as well as re-recordings of four echolyn "classics."
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Released | 2002 | |||
Recorded | 1989-2000 | |||
Genre | Progressive rock | |||
Label | Velveteen Records | |||
Producer | Echolyn | |||
Echolyn chronology | ||||
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ProgArchives |
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "The Fountainhead (a. Dominique, b. Howard Roark, c. The Banner)" | 2:57 |
2. | "The Great Men" | 8:31 |
3. | "On Any Given Night" | 5:02 |
4. | "Carpe Diem" | 5:08 |
5. | "Shades" | 11:08 |
6. | "Clumps of Dirt" | 4:24 |
7. | "Peace in Time" | 6:41 |
8. | "Meaning and the Moment" | 7:21 |
9. | "Breath of Fresh Air" | 3:39 |
10. | "Until It Rains" | 5:18 |
11. | "The Velveteen Rabbit" | 7:31 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Bright Sides" | 3:04 |
2. | "Ballet for a Marsh" | 4:30 |
3. | "Lunch in the Sun" | 3:53 |
4. | "Blue and Sand" | 4:25 |
5. | "100 Diversions" | 7:10 |
6. | "Another Day" | 3:29 |
7. | "When the Sour Turns to Sweet" (original version by Genesis) | 4:59 |
8. | "Meaning and the Moment" (original version on echolyn) | 4:49 |
9. | "The Currents of Me" | 7:25 |
10. | "Patchwork" | 3:31 |
11. | "This Time Alone" | 9:09 |
12. | "A Little Nonsense (live at ProgDay '95)" (original version on Suffocating the Bloom) | 7:07 |
13. | "As the World (live at ProgDay '95)" (original version on As the World) | 6:56 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "The Edge of Wonder (Erad-glitch)" (from the demo cassette "The Art of Group Earwax Mining") | 4:09 |
2. | "Texas Dust (live)" (recorded live in the studio 1999, original version on Cowboy Poems Free) | 5:34 |
3. | "Swingin' the Axe (live)" (recorded live in the studio 1999, original version on Cowboy Poems Free) | 3:21 |
4. | "Gray Flannel Suit (live)" (recorded live in the studio 1999, original version on Cowboy Poems Free) | 5:09 |
5. | "As the World 2000" (original version on As the World) | 4:36 |
6. | "Suffocating the Bloom 2000" (original version on Suffocating the Bloom) | 4:18 |
7. | "Carpe Diem 2000" (original version on echolyn) | 6:03 |
8. | "Shades 2000" (original version on echolyn) | 14:34 |
Personnel
- Band Members
- Ray Weston – lead and backing vocals, bass (disc 2, track 5)
- Brett Kull – guitars, lead and backing vocals, bass (disc 1t Track 3)
- Christopher Buzby – keyboards, backing vocals
- Paul Ramsey – drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Tom Hyatt – bass, MIDI pedals (disc 1, tracks 1, 2, 6, 7; discs 2-3)
- Jesse Reyes - bass (disc 1, tracks 4, 5, 8, 9, 10; disc 3, track 1)
- Jordan Perlson - drums (disc 3, track 4), percussion (disc 3, tracks 2, 3, 5-8)
- Guests Musicians
- Katharine Shenk - violin (disc 1, tracks 1, 11)
- Kimberly Shenk - cello (disc 1, tracks 1, 11)
- Brian Buzby - alto saxophone (disc 1, track 10)
- Nancy Sheehan - cello (disc 2, track 1)
- Jeffery Myers - violin (disc 2, track 1)
- Dainis Roman - flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone (disc 2, tracks 1, 3)
- Evan Jachnowitz - alto saxophone (disc 2, track 3)
- Dorothy Cooper - trumpet (disc 2, track 3)
- Alex Kahn - trombone (disc 2, track 3)
Credits
- Disc 1 - Mastered at Sony Studios 2000. Thanks to Michael Caplan.
- Disc 2 - Mixed and mastered by Brett Kull at Farmhouse Studios 2002, except tracks 11 and 12. Tracks 11 and 12 mixed by Brett Kull and Chris Buzby.
- Disc 3 - Mixed and mastered by Brett Kull at Farmhouse Studios 2002.
References
- "ProgArchives (A Little Nonsense: Now and Then)". www.progarchives.com. Retrieved 2020-07-17.