Echo Helstrom, the "orchestral rock band." It's the violin and upright bass added to the usual rock array that makes them so. That, plus adventuresome arrangements and songs that run the gamut from chamber music to punk rock with much else in between. Echo Helstrom is "a combination of raw emotional power with sophisticated melodic beauty (Joseph Gallivan)," it's "Kurt Cobain meets Leonard Bernstein (The Oregonian)". Echo Helstrom, not quite straight-ahead rock nor top 40 pop. It's unique, original, and word is spreading fast about the "dreamy yet observational songwriting [with] surprising flashes of rock aggression (The Oregonian)." Echo was recently featured in the Feb. issue of Mother Jones Magazine. Echo Helstrom is in the middle of an extensive commercial Radio campaign and has been playlisted in N.Y., Washington, Florida, Colorado, Mich., S. Carolina, Alabama, Montana, Tenn., Vermont, and Penn. US Tour Summer 2007.

Echo Helstrom Biography

Instrumentation
Ross Seligman - Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
David Caldwell - Electric Guitar
Will Amend - Upright Bass, Electric Bass
Alessandra Dinu - Violin
Randy Rollofson - Drums
Tahlia Harrison - Background Vocals

Biography
Echo Helstrom, the "orchestral rock band." It's the violin and upright bass added to the usual rock array that makes them so. That, plus adventuresome arrangements and songs that run the gamut from chamber music to punk rock with much else in between. Echo Helstrom is "a combination of raw emotional power with sophisticated melodic beauty (Joseph Gallivan)," it's "Kurt Cobain meets Leonard Bernstein (The Oregonian)". Echo Helstrom, not quite straight-ahead rock nor top 40 pop. It's unique, original, and word is spreading fast about the "dreamy yet observational songwriting [with] surprising flashes of rock aggression (The Oregonian)."

The influences are worn in the heart not on the sleeve, they're internalized, digested, transformed. Critics have noted anything from Radiohead and Coldplay to Neil Finn and Ireland's Donal Lunny. The songwriting is "poetic without lapsing into obscurity (Portland Tribune)." It's "rock enough for the parents currently subjected to their children's emo band of the week, indie enough for the kids tired of hearing their 40-something parents blasting Wilco on NPR (Rebel X)."

Echo Helstrom's unsigned "The Veil" is already being playlisted in New York, Washington, Florida, Colorado, Michigan, South Carolina, Alabama, Montana, Tennessee, Vermont, Pennsylvania -- with more stations being added weekly. All this without major label push.

Simply put: "Only two records deep into Echo Helstrom's career, The Veil leaves behind genre and enters the realm of simply good music. Welcome. Please stay awhile (Lord Randall Jones)."


LATEST NEWS:

Echo Helstrom has just signed a publishing deal with North Star Media, Ron Sobel's company operating in Studio City California.

Echo Helstrom is being featured in the Jan/Feb issue of Mother Jones Magazine:
http://www.motherjones.com/about/sales/intune.html



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