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History
In the fall of 2002, Edensong was founded by James Byron Schoen (guitar, vocals) and Matt Cozin (drums), at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. After jamming together, they joined forces with guitarist Ben Wigler, and old friend of James - with whom he had played in a band called Echoes of Eden. The three worked on new material, as well as old Echoes of Eden material, but after a short while Ben left the band.
James and Matt moved on and decided to develop 3 hour what they called 'surrealistic pseudo-rock-opera', involving a lot of the music they wrote earlier. They joined forces with some other musicians, Ian Carbone (bass), Aurora Maoz (flute), and Asa Sourdiffe (violin, keyboard). The initial performance in April 2003 motivated the band to go ona live tour, but the rehearsal schedule and antics involved in this "Beyond Eden" project was too much for Aurora and Asa, who were replace by Rachel Kiel (flute) and Mike Drucker (violin). After touring, this line up started working on the material that would eventually become the debut album "The Fruit Fallen". During the work, Arthur Sugen joined on piano and organ, and Ian Carbone was replaced by T.D. Towers on bass.
