TapeBombs | An Austin Music Blog

Breaking Bread with… Echotone
written by Jennifer

“After all, this is Austin, isn’t everyone you meet a musician?” This might be slightly embellished truth of the internationally proclaimed ‘Live Music Capital of the World,’ where hundreds packed up their guitars, found low rent shared houses, and sought after mythical well-paid gigs. Those of us who aren’t blessed with musical talent still are entertainment consumers, crowding downtown clubs, and not often enough stepping back to consider ourselves lucky for multitude of available sound. Filmmaker Nathan Christ saw an opportunity to capture a year of changes, struggles, and issues facing Austin musicians in his feature film, Echotone, which navigates the building up of the city skyline while musicians on the ground starve to play out. Christ, along with Daniel Perlaky, owner of Indierect Records and City on Fire design, who is also a prominent subject in the feature, had dinner with us to discuss the unique status local musicians balancing on the edge of commercial success and creative freedom. Together, Nathan and Daniel highlight their experience of creating a film representing an accurate portrait of the Austin music scene made by and for the people involved in it. After two years in the making, the film has a date for it’s World Premiere at the Marfa Film Festival in early May.  Read about the process of making the feature, the favorite moments of the director, and as to how this film makes a larger statement on the economic realities of succeeding in music.

The First Echotone Teaser Trailer 1280×720 HD from echotonefilm on Vimeo.

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