Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the signing of Rome-based composer Elisa Luu to its roster of artists.
Elisa Luu (Elisabetta Luciani) is a Rome-based composer, who began her musical career as a jazz/fusion saxophone player. Elisa has been involved in a number of musical projects over the years, including fusion quartet Prodotti Speciali and Short’s Monday Night Jazz Orchestra. She has also participated in Berklee Jazz clinics, where she received special mention as an alto sax player.
Though digitally crafted, Elisa Luu’s music 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.
In 2007 Elisa began to compose electronic music using flute, saxophone and guitar as sound sources. In 2008, UK net label Phantom Channel released her debut EP Floating Sounds, which garnered glowing online reviews.
“There is a balance of songness and sound, of an experimentalist’s emphasis on texture and a composer’s on tone, that makes Elisa Luu’s Floating Sounds (Phantom Channel) one of the most immediately awarding and arresting netlabel releases of the year thus far.”– Disquiet on Floating Sounds
“On the evidence of this EP, Elisa Luu is an astonishingly talented artist, crafting immersive and emotive soundfields with ease. Fingers crossed that she can muster an album of similar quality sometime soon.” – Luna Kafe on Floating Sounds
Elisa Luu’s debut album Chromatic Sigh is to be released by Hidden Shoal on the 10th of September, preceded by the album’s first single on the 5th of August.
Read a full press release here.