Echoes of Zoo

Jazz rock for psych heads, global sounds for jazz minds, or the steaming soundtrack to a midnight desert rave? For sure, Echoes of Zoo fuse influences from all over the musical earth into countless electrifying grooves.

Follow up to their acclaimed debut record 'BREAKOUT' (2021), the quartet's new album 'Speech of Species', out May 12th 2023 on W.E.R.F. Records, is deepening their already eclectic sound further once again.

Still packed with a lot of sonic energy and a fair amount of punk- and dub flavours, Echoes of Zoo are this time blending in a big bunch of (Middle) Eastern and Balkan sounds, microtonal guitars, animal communication transformed into melodies and a host of new rhythmic experiments based on Brazilian and West African grooves.


While ‘BREAKOUT’ was an interesting musical interpretation of the confrontation between humans and animals and breathed the vibes of cities and clash of cultures, composer/saxophonist Nathan Daems was this time inspired by the communication of animals amongst each other. That's why he named this new record 'Speech of Species'.

The band is taking a deep dive into the musical and cultural melting of today’s biggest cities:

Balkan ornaments meet Brazilian rhythms
Gipsy scales meet fuzz guitars
Beninese grooves meet Turkish makam
Bass guitars meet Sufi rhythms
Rage riffs meet Kurdish trance
Indian raga meets western guitars
Romanian drums meet swing riffs

Live pics (c) Björn Comhaire
Band pics (c) Alexander Deprez