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Echo GS don't have a name for the kind of music they play. They'd rather let their guitars, accordion and electric trumpet do the talking

By Ron Brownlow
STAFF REPORTER
Monday, Nov 27, 2006, Page 13 

One thought comes to mind when a new band is promoted as featuring an accordion and singing Aboriginal songs tinged with bossa nova and other Latin American influences: This could be interesting, or it could be pretty bad.

Echo GS (艾可菊斯) is pretty good.

On Saturday at Witch House (女巫店) they had a packed audience — most of whom were hearing the group's acoustic ballads and fret-burning instrumentals for the first time — clapping their hands, singing along and calling for an encore. Which was impressive, considering it was Echo GS' first extended performance in nearly two years, and given that Taipei audiences seem to increasingly favor performances by musicians they know over new sounds.

The "GS" in Echo GS stands for band members Gelresai (陳世川) and Suming (姜聖明), who met a few years ago when both were students at the National Taiwan University of Arts (國立台灣藝術大學). They lived in the same dorm and practiced together in a stairwell there because it had an echo and made their music sound better, hence the first part of their band's name.

(誠品好讀2005年5月刊)

　　我是台東山裡的魯凱族，Suming是花蓮海邊的阿美族，可是我們是到台北來才認識的。我和Suming都是台灣藝大吉他社的，我大一下學期成果發表的時候，聽到對方唱歌，就覺得很對味。那時候開始，我們就常在宿舍彈吉他、唱歌。
　
　　Suming那時候就開始自己寫歌了，每次寫完歌都會很興奮抱著吉他來我們寢室說：「新歌發表！新歌發表！」我們寫完歌都會自彈自唱給對方聽，交換意見互相修改。宿舍頂樓樓梯間回音很大，在那裡唱歌很好聽，我們就把那邊當作練習室，叫它「Echo區」。所以去年要參加「海洋音樂祭」的時候，就用Echo G.S.、「艾可菊斯」這個團名，G是我的魯凱名字Gelresai，S就是Suming。