Art d'Ecco - Serene Demon (2025)

Serene Demon may be Art d’Ecco’s most ambitious album to date, but fans
won’t struggle to recognize his handiwork. Despite his “ferocious, introverted independence”, Art recognized that he couldn’t realize his ambitious vision single-handedly. Nearly 30 musicians contributed to making Serene Demon. One need only to listen to the title track to recognize his success. Composing the Serene Demon track required two months’ time and deep reserves of creativity. The premise may seem straightforward (“it’s literally an existentialist and a true believer walk into a bar and debate”) but the execution is anything but, incorporating four distinct sections, a fluid tempo, and a myriad of tone colours as it veers between intimate and epic moments across seven and a half minutes.