[1] They have twice been nominated for the Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year.
McPherson formed the band in the late 1990s as a side project to his work as a session musician and producer for artists including Jane Siberry, Natalie MacMaster and GusGus.
[3] Kiran Ahluwalia contributed to the band's 2005 album.
[1][4] Eccodek signed to White Swan World, a subsidiary of Rykodisc, in 2006.
[5] Eccodek's album Singing in Tongues, featuring Onkar Singh, drummer Adam Bowman, and singer Jah Youssouf,[6][7] was also nominated as Best World Music Album at the Juno Awards of 2015.