Elan Vital - Shadow Self
(c) 2017 Fishrider Records
Artist....: Elan Vital
Album.....: Shadow Self
Source....: Vinyl
Discs.....: 1
Type......: Normal
Tracks....: 7
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Fishrider Records
Catalogue#: FISH018
Encoder...: FLAC 1.3.1
Quality...: 2968kbps / 96.0kHz / 2 channels
URL.......: http://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com
Tracklist:
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A1.Shadow Self 5:16
A2.Hologram 4:06
A3.Space 5:26
A4.Possession 5:33
B1.Janina 5:31
B2.Albtraum 3:28
B3.Deams 5:07
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34:27
Total:768.03MB / 34:27
Release Notes:
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Elan Vital formed in 2015 in DunedinÆs None Gallery, an artist-run creative
community in a former pharmaceutical factory near the city centre. Their sound
takes contemporary European cold-wave synth-pop dance music layered on analogue
drum machines, then blends in the warm psychedelic organ sounds of 1960s garage
rock. Distorted, overdriven bass guitar adds a further element of chaos into the
mix.
The expression Elan Vital describes the vital force or impulse of life. The
music on ôShadow Selfö represents that life impulse in an ambiguous zone between
machine and human worlds. A dense claustrophobic swirl of dark dance-tempo
synth-pop blooms from gloomy cold industrial dance music with vocoder vocals
into uplifting melodic dream-pop catharsis about memory, longing, and obsession.
"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's
conscious life, the blacker and denser it is." Carl Jung