There’s wonderful news from Echoes of Zoo, who have announced their third album, Collective Intelligence, arriving on October 2nd through Rebel Up! and Zephyrus Records. Bringing together Nathan Daems, Bart Vervaeck, Lieven Van Pée and Falk Schrauwen, whose credits also include other favourite outfits like Black Flower, Compro Oro and De Beren Gieren, the Belgian quartet continue to refine a distinctive musical language that draws from jazz, psychedelic rock, dub, African rhythmic traditions and adventurous improvisation. Inspired by the collective behaviour found throughout the natural world, the forthcoming Collective Intelligence takes swarms, flocks and ecosystems as its central point of departure. The album explores the forms of cooperation and communication that emerge between species, asking what they might reveal about the ways humans organise, respond and coexist.

Leading the announcement is ‘Flock Logic’, an exhilarating and electrifying first single sparked by the band’s time touring Brazil in early 2024. Watching vast flocks of birds move in perfect synchrony, while absorbing the infectious rhythmic energy of carnival, planted the seeds for the track. Echoes of Zoo comment:

“We had seen flocks of birds whirling in the sky and were wondering how they could navigate collectively as one mind. The madness of the carnival helped us to percolate some ideas for grooves and melodies into a hypnotic frenzy which finally became this energetic song.”

Listen to ”Flock Logic’ below.