The Echelon Effect

Sanctuary

The Ridge

First Fall Refrain

First Fall

The Path

For the Willow Wept… (Sunrise Edition)
Release Date: June 24, 2017
© 2017 Keith Richie

For the Willow Wept… (Sunrise Edition) holds a deeply personal place in my heart. While the original version was released in 2012, the journey toward its completion began four years earlier—and it was anything but easy.

During that time, I was navigating an emotional storm. Sitting down to compose felt nearly impossible. When I could gather the energy, I might play a few notes, sketch an idea, or tweak a voice—but more often than not, I’d walk away. Days turned into weeks, weeks into months. The weight of everything I was experiencing made it difficult to focus, and each return to the project often pulled me deeper into a place I was trying to escape.

In retrospect, it’s no surprise that the album drifts between emotional highs and lows—it mirrors the state of my life during those years.

By late 2011 and early 2012, something changed. I began to reclaim my passion for music, bolstered by the support and encouragement of those close to me. I took the six tracks I had and began shaping them into something complete. I didn’t want to release an EP, so I included a reprise of Sea Dragon—essentially the same track with a new intro and outro—to bring balance to the album.

Then, something unexpected happened: I found inspiration.

A piece I’d been struggling with suddenly came together. That track became For the Willow Weeps Underneath the Stormy Skies, and it resonated with me so deeply that I named the entire album after it. Through the presence of someone very close to my heart, I found the strength to finish what I had started.

Although the original album released in June 2012, I always knew I’d return to it. Years later, with new perspective and growth as a composer, I revisited the project. I remastered the original tracks, removed the two earlier versions of Sea Dragon, and kept only the Reprise. I also wrote three new pieces to fully realize the album as a complete emotional arc—one that finally reflects the depth I had envisioned from the beginning.

For the Willow Wept… (Sunrise Edition) is a story of emotional resilience—of navigating darkness and finding the courage to move toward the light. It’s about owning your story, embracing your pain, and realizing that only you have the power to shape your future.

We all face sorrow—but even the longest night eventually gives way to dawn.

This edition is dedicated to my wife, who showed me what true happiness is.
She is my sunrise.
She is my Willow.

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Father Time

Sizzling Plucks

Need a Name - Lines over Lines

Full album available November 13th!

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Lyrics: 

I just want to feel again
Someway I can heal within
Lost all I believed in
In my deepest grieving 
I know I'm way down 
But I found my sound
And with nothing to lose 
I sing The Ethereal Blues
I just want to feel again
Someway I can heal within
Ambient serenity
Save my soul and my sanity
I know I'm way down 
But I found my sound
And with nothing to lose 
I sing The Ethereal Blues
It's in the underground 
Where I found my sound
And with celestial hues 
I sing The Ethereal Blues

The Ethereal Blues

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Lyrics: 
Deep within her soul I see a happiness break free	
Teaching techniques that her heart will thank her and agree
Preaching promises sincerely unchains her agony
She runs, imparts and now restarts, shout this line publically

You won’t stop, won’t stop her now
You can’t stop, you can’t stop her now.

Breaking in her daily ounce of thoughts with company 
This inward cardiac massage,it makes her somebody
And all the self help books she reads give her the third degree,
The light at the end expands and extends and she’s all she wants to be

You won’t stop, won’t stop her now
Cant stop, cant stop her now.


Music track by SEAWAVES performing Her. 
© 2018 Luna Music Group & North Star Media

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2013 

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Tom Day - Escape

A spacious lush and dreamy ride through a soothing audio landscape.

Echo Point

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Escapism

Goodbye Sierra

Denver For An Hour

Fall Of The Decade

Focusing on the peaceful return of the Spring season and its flowering colors, 4-track EP "Longer Days" is Dario Lupo's second entry of Beatsies, his series of releases based on lo-fi beats, sampling and sound design.

Beatsies II: Longer Days

Sunny Bench

AUG 2010……
The Echelon Effect came to life amid the long winter nights of February 2009, born from a burning desire to fall in love with music again. It started with a laptop and an idea: write a track, and make it huge. But one track became four, an EP that needed an audience. The tracks were posted on MySpace. And people began to listen.

‘Leaving It Behind’ was followed by two more EPs and remixes for The Appleseed Cast and City Breathing. Word spread, and the tracks began to attract positive reviews and gather airplay. What had begun as a way to stave off the dark and the cold had turned into something more.

The Echelon Effect’s debut full-length, ‘Reunion’, was the final part of a quartet of recordings that form ‘Wires and Tapes,’ an 141-minute sequential loop of tracks, each bleeding into the next and the last into the first. As a thank-you to the people who had been instrumental in the evolution of the Echelon Effect, fans were invited to record spoken statements about what home meant to them, which were incorporated into the album’s title track.

More remixes followed, for God Is An Astronaut, Codes In The Clouds, Our Ceasing Voice, Good Weather For An Airstrike and EVOLV among others. In March 2010 The Echelon Effect began work on ‘Mosaic’, their second full-length, featuring the addition of Steve T on drums, it was released on August 9th 2010.

Pushing forward a new project in which the entire year of 2011 is depicted in film. The audio to this being released throughout the year in four EP's. Part 1 was released on 18th April. 

Fall Of The Decade

The Echelon Effect

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