eric johnson and company deliver imaginary pop hits about the unsettling nature of the great outdoors, murderous fireflies and vengeful pigeons. imagine eno and elton john wrecking a campfire sing-along. timeless sounds finding the calm in absurdity... echolocation mixes perfect falsetto pop with images of urban writer's block and vikings high on mushrooms - all in the same song. fruit bats make sexual, space age country music about seeing beauty in natural disaster. makes perfect sense. it shouldn't but it does. produced at clava studio by brian deck. (2001)

credits
eric johnson (califone, paulina hollers i rowboat) - vocals, guitars, keyboards, banjo, piano, dan strack (i rowboat) - guitar, clarinet, ukele, vocals. w/ brian deck (califone, loftus, oRSo) - drums, percussion, keyboards, marimba, vocals, gillian lisee (oRSo, califone, tag) - keyboards, vocals, charles kim (sinister luck ensemble, pinetop 7) - bass, pedal steel, jim becker (califone, boxhead ensemble, paulina hollers) - fiddle, mandolin, tim rutili (califone, loftus) - feedback, slide guitar, vocals, ben massarella (califone, loftus, oRSo, drumhead) - percussion, brian belval (i rowboat) -- percussion


track listing
(click on linked titles for sample mp3 clip! - 128KB/Stereo):
the old black hole - glass in your feet - buffalo & deer - need it just a little - black bells (make me ok) - strange little neck of the woods - echolocation stomp - coal age - filthy water - a dodo egg - dragon ships - blue parachute