For nearly two decades, A Troop of Echoes has explored the outer wilds of rock music with the saxophone front and center. Emphasizing melody and tight songcraft, the Providence quartet brings together post-rock atmospherics with the raucous drive of post-punk, carving out a space in the instrumental landscape that’s uniquely their own. This approach culminated in their most recent full-length album, 2015’s “The Longest Year on Record.” Recorded in their warehouse space with a cadre of musical friends, the album is lush and ambitious, marrying the aesthetics of DIY indie rock with the scale of a chamber orchestra. 

Nearly a decade later, A Troop of Echoes is back. INFINITE HITS is a series of mixtapes that captures AToE at their most raw and energizing: the crowd noise, the electrical hum, the spooky-good moments of collective improv that never made it onto a formal release. Carefully curated from hundreds of hours of live shows, demo tapes, and other sonic debris spanning 2005-2024, INFINITE HITS is an essential snapshot of one of the genre’s most innovative bands taking risks, pushing themselves, hitting paydirt, and having a deliriously good time. 

Infinite Hits 3 will be available everywhere on December 6, 2024.

A Troop of Echoes is: 
Peter Gilli: alto/tenor/soprano saxophones, clarinet, piano, electronics
Harrison Hartley: bass guitar, upright bass, electronics, self oscillating bucket brigade feedback loop, minivan climate control ocean noise machine (MCCONM)
Nick Cooper: guitar, Moog synthesizer, foghorns
Dan Moriarty: drums, vibraphone, glockenspiel, baritone guitar, vocals, seagulls

Infinite Hits 3 was mixed by Peter Gilli with help from A Troop of Echoes. It was mastered by Carl Saff. 


Yeah Buddy! b/w Troop at the Beach

Pure Alexia (Is It Silent in This Room) [Full Band Version]

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welcome 2 the pride. lions run and lions know how to hide. lions are smart, lions are my wings, my flesh and blood, and damn do lions fcking sing. xxleako

Luci & The Lions: The Great Escape (leak)

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A new original song for the first time with WT on drums. 

Maybe Sympathy (WTJB) 12-12-24 v1.2

misterG of greenarrowradio chats it up with Heather The Jerk about her new release, 'Not Very Motorcycle'

HeatherTheJerk

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Drummerdowny (Prod. Curly!)

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!  Stay Safe!
Acoustic Guitar Solo Cover / Alt Tuning DADGAD

Little Drummer Boy - Solo Acoustic Guitar

Mr. Christopher interviews legendary drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie who is the most recorded drummer in history being on over 4000 albums including Miles Davis, Steely Dan, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and many others. We talk about his career, his style, and book.

Interview: Bernard "Pretty" Purdie

Track - Rollin ft. Jody Harris + Jane Ballantyne / sax. 
Album - Akashic Code. 
Artist - Southsection. 
Year - 2025

Akashic Code

Rollin

I'm more than back
gotta fix my mixer so for now enjoy the slop my DJ controller produces

⚠ UNETHICAL DNB MIXTURE ⚠ (vol191)

Pop Drum Groove 149 BPM

Ep352 Year In Review Pt1 (9 guests 82 mins Dec 24 ’24)

Track - Budz ft. Muscat. 
Album - Akashic Code. 
Artist - Southsection. 
Year - 2025

Budz

Imperfect - (Prod. Sixx.K)

Americana Drums 106 BPM

A Troop of Echoes has a stunning ability to encompass multiple moods within a single song — at times simultaneously sounding both soothing and unsettling; other times both wistful and hopeful. In that, their sound is truly cinematic. Not “cinematic” in the banal manner used to describe expansive music that’s ultimately sonic wallpaper, but in that A Troop of Echoes uses unique characteristics of each instrument — guitar, saxophone, bass and drums — the same way that a masterful director uses angles, lighting, editing, etc., to convey complex details of story and emotion. 
 
The evocative melodic work of Troop saxophonist Peter Gilli interweaves with the chiming and textural feel to guitarist Nick Cooper’s parts as the two often create a swirling tug and sway driven by bassist Harrison Hartley’s chordal riffs and drummer Dan Moriarty’s symphonic approach to the rhythms. The quartet’s emphasis is on the journey and the impact, like the best moments of The Dirty Three wherein their deft musicianship never upstages the song’s emotional weight. Throughout the quartet’s forthcoming sophomore full length The Longest Year on Record, the music is marvelously engaging in its clever melodies, yet also loaded with innovative ideas.
 
A Troop of Echoes formed in 2004 amongst Providence’s fertile underground music scene, early on distilling the noise and math-rock tendencies of Lightning Bolt and Battles, combined with the chaotic free-improvisatory energy of late-era Coltrane. As Gilli, Cooper, and Hartley studied music at the University of Rhode Island, Moriarty ran a DIY music space while completing his degree in astrophysics at the University of Massachusetts. Marrying quirky harmonies with frenetic energy, their punchy and acrobatic 2009 debut Days in Automation set the ground for what was to come. 
 
Writing for The Longest Year on Record came to focus on space, both physically and compositionally. Cooper and Moriarty moved into a massive studio loft on Providence’s South Side in 2013, inspiring the use of more understated sonics. Troop began working with a wider palate of instrumentation, including strings, horns, vibraphone, vocals, and a drum team. The Longest Year on Record was tracked almost exclusively in the band’s new practice space by longtime friend Graham Mellor, mixed by Andrew Schneider (Unsane, Pelican) at The Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, and mastered by Carl Saff in Chicago. Like Troop’s beautifully honed songs, the album production is impeccable in its use of space and blending or contrasting elements. 
 
The Longest Year on Record will be available on LP, CD and download May 19th.

Acoustic guitar; folk; Americana; jam band influences; blues; rock; old time; bluegrass; grungey stuff. Even some electro and EDM vibes occasionally. I play a wide mix of music with a lot of different people. Currently playing most with Midnite Radio in Americana format and Eleventh Hour in a little more groove and rock oriented sound.

Vintage Heat Records
Artists - Sixx_K , Lul Loaded, C-Dawg, Nate
We make all sorts of music from rap to acoustic covers !

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