'Echo Mine' is Califone’s score for Robyn Mineko Williams’ dance. The movement and the music began together and grew together, like two clear entities. Sometimes totally intertwined and sometimes bouncing off each other, a bit like reflections. But, in a way, always connected and in tune."Ben Massarella, Brian Deck and I worked in a way that felt like coming home; Brian handles the engineering, electronics, drums and the sound of the room, Ben adding percussion, sensations, textures and essential colors. I felt like my job was to hover over all of it like a moth. To find the melody in everything. To lead only when necessary and leave room for everyone to work at the height of their creativity. We created our album Roomsound the same way (almost 20 years ago). Three of us in the studio - Be human. Play together as much as possible. A good feeling beats perfection every time. Add other musicians to add other voices and other colors, to do what we cannot do.""As musicians, we are not precise. Califone can kick up dust and ride a wave of self-created chaos. Many of our songs are built on foundations created from spontaneous moments. It is almost impossible for us to do exactly the same thing twice. When it works, we can find magic in it. The song remains a living thing, always expandable and evolving.""Robyn is an abstract painter. I don’t know how to explain what she does, but we all deeply felt it while creating this music.""Watching Robyn and the dancers rehearse, I had the same feeling as standing in front of a Rothko painting. There is a deliberate precision in the dance and movement that draws the details of a story into abstract forms that illuminate the logic of dreams, the invisible contours and the colors that deepen the emotions around what it is to be a human being in a physical body - beyond words.""Maybe everyone involved in this project is an abstract painter."