The One

Eric Eckhart is an American singer-songwriter living in Berlin. Eight years ago, he left America, his corporate job, possessions, family and friends and moved to Europe to reconnect with his lifelong passion for music.

"Better Way" is from Eric's new independently released album, 'This is where it starts' available on iTunes and www.ericeckhart.com. 

Eric Eckhart - Electric Guitars (Hohner Semi-Hollow body &amp; Washburn (live with the band)), Classical Acoustic guitar, piano, Lead Vocal (sung nearly lying down on the verses, through an SM58 mic held in my hand on the choruses and outro ), Backing Vocals
Fab Leseure - Backing Vocals (including the outro ones), organ and the organ's rhythm box used on the verses
Dave Hingerty - Drums, extra Floor Tom on outro
Peter Cheevers - Bass, Clavs
Benoît Leseure - Violins
Trumpet - Jan Gropper 


Better Way

Written by Eric Eckhart
Mixed and Produced by Fabien Leseure
July 2016, Berlin, Germany
Mastered at Abbey Road Studios - London, England by Geoff Pesche
Voice, piano, bass, drums - Eric Eckhart
Keyboards, programming, drum machine - Fabien Leseure

"Fado"
Days go, fire low, forgetting the way home
Waiting on the moon glow
Stars show, love leaves, all alone 
Everybody knows

When all you want and all I want 
It’s all dividing me
The tangled voices tearing free

Deep space beyond me, inside me, beside me 
Learning how to let go
Fado, love screams, scared ghost
Waiting on the moon

When all you want and all I want
It’s all dividing me

I’m shaking out, I’m finding how, I’m breaking now. I’m near the void.

Fado, Fado, Fado

Death knows, lost hope
Rescue, take hold
Sing it in the last note, safe home
The wild beast, laid low

The light

Fado

Eric Eckhart is an American singer-songwriter living in Berlin. Eight years ago, he left America, his corporate job, possessions, family and friends and moved to Europe to reconnect with his lifelong passion for music.

"Open Up" is from Eric's new independently released album, 'This is where it starts' available on iTunes and www.ericeckhart.com.

Eric Eckhart - Electric Guitars (Hohner Semi-Hollow body (live with the band) &amp; Washburn), Acoustic Guitar (through distortion box and amp), Classical Acoustic Guitar (through distortion box and small amp and with weird tuning), Lead Vocal
Fab Leseure - Backing Vocals, organ, Korg analogue synth
Dave Hingerty - Drums
Peter Cheevers - Bass
Tom Fanore - Percussion

Open Up

Eric Eckhart is an American singer-songwriter living in Berlin. Eight years ago, he left America, his corporate job, possessions, family and friends and moved to Europe to reconnect with his lifelong passion for music.

"I'm Gone" is from Eric's new independently released album, 'This is where it starts' available on iTunes and www.ericeckhart.com.

Eric Eckhart - Acoustic Guitar (recorded live with vocal), Electric Guitar (Johnny Cash semi-hollow body both amped and recorded with microphones), Floor Tom hit with mallet, Percussion (using hand slapping the acoustic guitar strings), Mouth organ, Lead Vocal (recorded live with the acoustic guitar)
Fab Leseure - Tambourine

I'm Gone

Eric Eckhart is an American singer-songwriter living in Berlin. Eight years ago, he left America, his corporate job, possessions, family and friends and moved to Europe to reconnect with his lifelong passion for music.

"Big Lie" is from Eric's new independently released album, 'This is where it starts' available on iTunes and www.ericeckhart.com.

Big Lie

Recorded live on one microphone during a thunderstorm at the old DDR radio station in the former East Berlin. It was late and we were wrapping up work for the day on my album 'This is where it starts' when the storm hit. We decided to wait out the storm, open up all the windows, set up one mic and let me sit on a stool and sing this song that I had tucked away inside me.

You can buy "All My Life"  and all my songs and albums at my Bandcamp site - http://ericeckhart.bandcamp.com. Please visit my website for all the latest -  http://www.ericeckhart.com.

All My Life

All instruments and vocals by Eric Eckhart. Accordion by Matthias Wegen. Written by Eric Eckhart and Finn Okamura (age 2). Recorded, mixed and produced by Eric Eckhart.

Lyrics:
When I was a girl
When I was a babe inside the womb
I only knew what love was
I only knew the truth

When I was a girl
When I was a baby just like you
I always knew what love was
I always knew the truth
Sing

The pain is gone
The pain
Like a shotgun barring down all around

When I was a boy
When I hid away inside my room
I never knew what love was
I never knew the truth

When I was a boy
When the shyness kept me from my youth
Along the closet wall I
I carved my love for you
Sing

The hate is gone
The hate
Had me crushed and kept me bound to this town
The pain is gone
The pain
Like a shotgun barring down all around
We were born to find true love
Heaven knows I would have died for you

When I was a man
When the loving arms of death took me
That's when I knew who I was
That's when my heart broke free

The pain is gone
The pain
Had me crushed and kept me bound to this town
The hate is gone
The hate
Like a shotgun barring down all around
We were born to find true love
Heaven knows I would have died for you
We were born to find true love
Heaven knows I would have died for you

When I Was A Girl

ric Eckhart never took the conventional path.

His formative musical years were spent heading a New Wave/Rock band in his working-class West Virginia hometown before an early mid-life crisis saw Eric leave his job, family and all his possessions and move to Ireland to start completely anew. The results were immediate.

His 2006 Irish debut album, ‘Lost and Found’ won the hearts of critics and fans alike which led to appearances on radio, TV and numerous tours and playing support for Broken Social Scene, Fionn Regan, Ocean Colour Scene and many others.

Once again searching for new horizons, Eric picked up sticks and moved to Berlin in 2008 to begin work on his critically acclaimed follow up album, ‘This is where it starts’. Eric and his band successfully toured across Germany and Austria receiving radio airplay and making numerous live radio performances.

Exploring models of how to work as an independent musician, Eric organized a pioneering project in 2012 that brought 100 independent artists together for one week to record, mix, design, promote, film and release his third album ‘Do-It-Together’ in a public space, in front of a live audience and live streamed and all without spending any money.

Fatherhood gave Eric time to slow down and focus on writing about his experiences as an independent artist and doing workshops and talks on the art of songwriting and how to help create your own alternative music industry at Berlin Music Week.

2017 saw Eric’s formal return to recording, this time working alone in a former WWII bunker turned recording studio in the heart of Berlin. Playing all the instruments, engineering, mixing and producing gave Eric a chance to truly come into his own as a songwriter and artist.

The result is Eric’s stunning new album, ‘Luminous’ due for release May  2019.

Eric Eckhart

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