ECHOES VOL 1 (7")

Echoes Vol. I - Cover (front)

Echoes Vol. I - Cover (back)

ECHOES VOL. 1

Echoes is a series of 4 vinyl bootlegs of live and demo material. The first and present one was put out as a 7” and contains just live cuts. The following vinyls were released as 12” bootlegs. All these maintain the same front cover layout in different colours.

See Echoes Vol 2, Echoes Vol 3, Echoes Vol 4.

A series of ECHOES-CDs does exist as well.

Release Notes

• Label: Speed Of Light Records
• Catalog#: TOL 88
• Format: 7" vinyl single
• Released: 1988

Echoes Vol. 1 - Cover unfolded with vinyl

Echoes Vol. 1 - 7" vinyl in gatefold cover

Remarks

• The cover consists of a folded glossy cardboard sleeve.

• The front cover art shows part of a painting from the Dutch artist Edward Collier. This work of art is a vanitas still life. These types of still lifes were very appreciated in the 16th and 17th century and are ought to remind the beholder of the caducity of things and life.

The text on the paper in the picture is a Latin proverb: “HOMO EST SIMILIS BULLAE” (Men is but a bubble), reflecting once again the main idea of the vanitas painting.

• The back cover states the Metropol as the place of recording for
  Temple Of Love. Other sources suggest the 28 August 1983,
  Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands as the right date and venue.

• In addition, the concert at the Electric Ballroom, London, England,
  where allegedly Valentine was recorded, took place on 11th, not
  on the 12th of August 1983.

Edward Collier - Vanitas still life

Sources

• Side A recorded on 30.08.1983 at Loft, Berlin, Germany

• Side B recorded on 11.08.1983 at Electric Ballroom, London, England

Tracks

• A - Temple Of Love

• B - Valentine