Echoes was formed in 2006 by Derek and his friend Ron who have a shared love of progressive rock music, which doesn't really get played in the South West Wales area by many bands, and we decided that this needed to be remedied. So we put together a band to see how this sort of music was received in the area, and thus Echoes was born.

Echoes started out playing a mix of cover versions of classic tracks by bands such as Pink Floyd, Genesis and Mountain and solo artists such as Peter Gabriel and David Bowie. Whilst we enjoyed covering classic rock material, we also sneaked some original material into our set list. Derek and Ron realised that our original material was getting as good a reception as the classic covers, so we decided it was time for the challenge of putting together an all original set list inspired by the great progressive bands.

So over 2007 and 2008 Derek and Ron were writing more original material with a view to getting back out there. Sadly, activities and commitments and life in general outside of the band prevented this from happening.

In 2009, Ron decided to withdraw from Echoes as he felt that he couldn't see a time in his hectic life when he could provide the commitment required. And as Derek currently has other music projects on the go then it looks like it will be a while before the Echoes demos are finished.

However, Derek intends to get the demos finished at some point and to also write some new material when time allows!

In 2010, by mutual agreement, the Echoes demos on this site are now solely songs originated by Derek, in order to allow Ron to develop the material that he originated for his own projects. Derek wishes Ron the best of luck in this.

Derek is planning to move these demos on later on in 2010 once he has finished writing new material for Carreg Ddu. It's early days yet, but a new collaboration possibility is under consideration which looks quite exciting.

The name Echoes was not chosen because it's the name of a great Pink Floyd track; it was chosen as the music does hark back to what I see as a "golden age" of music. Of course Prog rock is now having a bit of a renaissance, which is good!