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01. ELAN VITAL - Shadow Self
02. ELAN VITAL - Hologram
03. ELAN VITAL - Space
04. ELAN VITAL - Possession
05. ELAN VITAL - Janina
06. ELAN VITAL - Albtraum
07. ELAN VITAL - Dreams
ARTIST
TITLE
Shadow Self
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
POSEID7E 049CD POSEID7E 049CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/19/2017

Élan Vital -- comprising Renee Barrance (keyboards, vocals), Danny Brady (synths, drum machines, live mixing) and Nikolai Sim (bass) -- formed in 2015 in Dunedin's None Gallery, an undefined artist-run creative community which is also the home of Death And The Maiden. The expression Élan Vital describes the vital force. The music on Shadow Self seems to symbolize that life impulse in an ambiguous zone between machine and human worlds. Their sound blends keyboards, evoking psychedelic organ sounds of 1960s garage rock, together with contemporary European synth-pop dance music, layered on analog drum machines. Distorted, overdriven bass guitar adds a further element of chaos into the mix. Feedback-strafed soundtrack instrumentals for imaginary dystopian sci-fi films bloom into uplifting and gloomy melodic dream-pop catharsis about memory, longing, and obsession.