''Suffocating the Bloom'' is second full-length studio album by the

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Echolyn Echolyn is an American progressive rock band based in eastern Pennsylvania. History Origins and first phase (1989–1995) Echolyn was formed in 1989 when guitarist Brett Kull and drummer Paul Ramsey, members of a recently split cover band ...

. The album was released on November 28, 1992, at a release party at the 23 East Cabaret in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Recording for ''Suffocating the Bloom'' began at the William Bolten Dixon American Legion Post #10 on July 15, 1992. After two days, the recording process moved to the band's own Farmhouse Studio. Recording was completed on August 27 at Forge Recording Studio. Mixing was completed at Forge in October 1992. From the Gardener's Guide, a printed companion to the album: According to vocalist Ray Weston, the 28-minute epic, ''Suite for the Everyman'', was "an explosion of emotion built up by the release of our first CD. Only to have it rejected by all the labels solicited. It's a basic single finger salute to those who said it could not be done. About sticking with integrity of your ideals." According to guitarist/vocalist

Brett Kull Echolyn is an American progressive rock band based in eastern Pennsylvania. History Origins and first phase (1989–1995) Echolyn was formed in 1989 when guitarist Brett Kull and drummer Paul Ramsey, members of a recently split cover band ...

, their initial intent was to write a second part to "Shades" from their debut album, but it morphed into the multi-part epic that closed out ''Suffocating the Bloom''. The first 1,000 copies of ''Suffocating the Bloom'' had silver discs with black print, including a few spelling mistakes ("Winterthru" is printed as two words and "Memoirs from Between" is labeled as "Memories from Between"). The second run of 1,000, produced approximately four months later, included red discs with yellow print and all mistakes corrected. A third run of 500 was printed in the spring of 1995 and contained all-black discs. In 2000, echolyn received their master recordings back from Sony Music. They were hand-delivered to the band by record exec Michael Caplan at the Theater of Living Arts in Philadelphia in late June 2000 where the band was opening for prog-rock supergroup

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. This provided the band the opportunity to remaster and reissued the album as it had been out of print for close to eight years. The band pressed approximately 6,000 copies of the remaster in late 2000 with updated artwork and packaging.

Track listing

A Suite for the Everyman (28:13)

Personnel

;Band Members * Ray Weston – lead

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s, lead and backing vocals * Christopher Buzby – keyboards, vocals * Paul Ramsey –

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* Tom Hyatt –

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, MIDI pedals ;Guest musicians * Katharine Shenk - violin * Richard Casimir - violin * Jeffrey E. Meyers - violin * Elizabeth C. Detweiler - viola * Kimberly Shenk - cello * Laura Anthony - flute * Heather Groll - flute * Dainis Roman - alto saxophone * Jim Dwyer - marching snares * Tom Kelly - marching snares

References

External links

* * {{Authority control 1992 albums Echolyn albums