Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the digital pre-release of the debut album by Rome-based composer Elisa Luu.
Though digitally crafted, Chromatic Sigh is warm, inviting and uniquely human, betraying a vulnerability and sensitivity that is rarely found in the male-dominated sphere of electronica. With its sighing, lilting qualities, Elisa Luu’s music reawakens a sense of childlike wonder and adventure with every sprawling and sparkling track. The album deftly moves in and out of the realms of ambient and electronica, creating a blissful, liminal realm where everything is rendered transformative.
The opening title track is a shifting kaleidoscope of drones, enveloping the listener with its gorgeous metallic haze. Single ‘The Garden’ creates a humid atmosphere of synths and glistening textures, carried aloft by crisp, skittering drum breaks. Melancholic centerpiece ‘Slow Bass Flute’ – which also appeared on debut EP Floating Sounds (Phantom Channel) – is so emotionally weighty that one can’t help but feel humbled in its presence. And album closer ‘Warn Plate’ is the gentle return to terra firma, leaving the listener conscious of having visited somewhere unique, complex and beautiful.
“gorgeous stuff, timid and trembling, frail and fragile – the ice sculptured craftsmanship eking out a beauti-fied solitary elegance much recalling the early career work of Mum… most alluring and lulling stuff” – Losing Today on single ‘The Garden’
Chromatic Sigh is now available in digital format from the Hidden Shoal Store and all good third-party digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, LaLa, etc). As with all new Hidden Shoal releases the album will also be available in lossless formats (FLAC and Apple Lossless). Chromatic Sigh will see its official CD release on the 29th of September and is available now for pre-order through n5Mailorder. Check the Hidden Shoal Store for all availability info.
Elisa Luu – Slowbeat Elisa Luu – Slowbeat