Friends of my family lost their first child to be, and named their second child Echo. This was my inspiration. It’s always gut-wrenching and heart-breaking to work on music like this, but it produces music that touches so many, in a myriad of ways. Everything about this track was unique for me. I used a 5/4 time signature with a cyclic drum and rhythm guitar pattern to create a dreamlike feel, augmented by a Nashville tuned, open-tuned guitar, a few piano chords, and all anchored by a heavily distorted bass. Together, these elements created an uninterrupted musical canvas that allowed for more expressive phrasing. The melody and solo guitar performances were recorded through a Roland JC-120 in Studio D, down the hall from Studio C. I remember it like it was yesterday. With the big monitors only a few feet away, I liked to stand on the couch facing them while tracking - what a feeling that was! The mix of this track is perhaps the best of the whole project. I remember finishing it as the sun was coming up, twenty years ago, and having to listen to it over and over again. It was just impossible to stop listening to it, and to finish record. After all the making of Surfing… had put me through, I guess I didn’t want it to end. It’s true what they say: “Albums are never finished; they are abandoned.”