Ecotopia (album)

Ecotopia is an album by jazz fusion band Oregon recorded in March 1987 and released on ECM later that year.

The quartet consists reed player Paul McCandless, guitarist Ralph Towner, bassist Glen Moore, and percussionist Trilok Gurtu—replacing Collin Walcott following his accidental death.

It is no wonder that he began the ECM New Series a few years before, given the junk churned out by some of label's stable between 1983 and 1988, and this record is a stellar example.

Simply put, this is a trite, new age piece of dreck slopped out by a group of musicians whose combined creativity should always take them to stellar heights.

"[2] Writing in progarchives.com, Ian Alterman called the album "the perfect mixture of Oregon compositions...