Years active ????-present Genre Progressive rock Albums Run With Me, The Veil | Labels Unsigned Record label Unsigned artist | |
Genres Progressive rock
Fusion Members Ross Seligman, guitar and vocals
Dan Gildea, guitar
Damian Erskine, bass
Randy Rollofson, drums Past members Alessandra Dinu, violin
Mike McDaniel, drums
Chris Mosley, guitar
Will Amend, bass and vocals Origin United States of America (2002) People also search for Bonnie Beecher, Alessandra Dinu | ||
Echo Helstrom is a Portland, Oregon-based rock band led by former Blanket Music guitarist Ross Seligman.
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The members are all trained in classical and jazz music, and Echo Helstrom has been called an "orchestral rock band" due to their instrumentation (violin, and bowed standup bass instead of electric bass guitar) and arrangements, which runs from chamber music to punk rock and many genres in between. The result has been described as "...a combination of raw emotional power with sophisticated melodic beauty" (and more prosaically as "Kurt Cobain meets Leonard Bernstein").
The band is named after an early girlfriend of Bob Dylan, and Seligman’s lyrics and vocals have been described as Dylanesque.
The song "Floor 104" on their eponymous first album, with its haunting ending of "please don’t go / please don’t go / to work today / to work today", is dedicated to Seligman’s stepbrother Laurence Polatsch, who perished in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Ross Seligman is currently the Music Supervisor, Bandleader, and Guitarist of the national tour of "One Night With Janis Joplin" The song "Where I Sleep" from the album "The Veil" was featured in the Feb. 12th, 2008 episode entitled 'In Da Club' of "One Tree Hill" on the station WB.
Discography
Songs
Burning SunThe Veil · 2006
The VeilThe Veil · 2006
Where I SleepThe Veil · 2006