Echos (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Echos
Type = Album
Artist = Lacrimosa


Released = 2003
Recorded = Impuls Musicproductions, Hamburg
Genre = Orchestral
Length = 1:01:13
Label = Hall of Sermon
Producer = Tilo Wolff
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ln2uak3kam3x link]
Last album = Fassade
(2001)
This album = "Echos"
(2003)
Next album = Lichtgestalt
(2005)

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Echos is the eighth album by German duo Lacrimosa.

Echos continued Lacrimosa's tradition of combining orchestral music with more traditional gothic rock themes. In particular, Echos was Lacrimosa's first album to feature a track that is entirely choral/orchestral: the 13-minute 'overture' and first track, "Kyrie".

As for the name "Echos", it's a greek word (written "ήχος" in greek) that is the name in Byzantine music theory for the melody type used in the composition of music. It is akin to a Western medieval mode or an Arabian maqam.

Track listing

"English translations of the German titles are shown in (parentheses)."

#Kyrie - 12:44
#Durch Nacht und Flut "(Through Night and Flood)" - 06:05
#Sacrifice - 09:30
#Apart - 04:18
#Ein Hauch von Menschlichkeit "(A Touch of Humanity)" - 05:08
#Eine Nacht in Ewigkeit "(One Night in Eternity)" - 05:54
#Malina - 04:50
#Die Schreie sind verstummt "(The Screams Are Silenced)" - 23:50

The last track, Die Schreie sind verstummt, lasts only 12 minutes, after which there are approximately 6 minutes of silence before an alternate, Spanish sung version of Durch Natch und Flut kicks in.

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