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Elephant releases self-titled album on Southern Summer

Album follows the self-managed artist’s acclaim from BBC introducing
Recorded in a friend’s barn in Lymington, Hampshire over summer 2012, Alex Hall (who goes under the pseudonym Elephant), left his job as a garden nursery worker to embark on recording a collection of songs he had unearthed over a frustrating twelve month period.

“I moved backed home from London, and I was crashing between sofas, living in a trailor and moving between jobs - all over the place you could say. I thought it was a good time to take some needed time out and reassess. Making this album was like sweeping the junk out of the closet - it felt totally right and natural to be doing it”

Armed with a laptop and a modest array of all sorts of instruments from banjos to Bodhrans (either collected over the years, or borrowed from friends), Hall moved into a disused cabin in the rural surroundings of the New Forest and over a two month period impressively performed, engineered and mastered everything heard on the album.
Nearing the end of the process, he sent tracks to BBC Introducing, and host Melitta Dennitt played a track within a week of Hall uploading it. As well as this, a local label (Southern Summer) said they would assist in physical release of the album - which is due to be released on 1st March.

The album is very much a bold statement of the DIY ethos, and it was with total intent Hall wanted to record it independently, devoid of studios, engineers and session musicians. It takes influence from 90‘s indie, anti-folk, fuzz rock, and electronic music. Southern Summer lauded it as ‘Genuinely inspired contemporary take on 60’s pop’.
“As you may expect - It’s a lonely album, but it’s certainly not depressing. it’s got all the broad themes, and takes influence from a strange sort of spectrum - but people will find heart and humour a well as some of the heavier stuff. I don’t think it’s particular easy for any artist to make ‘honest’ music. I just hope people recognise the honest element of it - and feel it’s represented in a way that deviates from the norm - and I hope they can understand and enjoy it in that way”

Digital downloaded of the album are released via MadeFromClay and are now available through Hall’s artist website (www.theelephantwebsite.com) and can be bought for £4.99. Physical release via Southern Summer is scheduled for 1st March and can be p re-ordered from the same website.

Alec Sala

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Your Silence is an introspective and reflective song which stems from a scientifically proven fact that the brain responds to being ignored in the same way as it does to physical pain. Your Silence captures both the agony and ferocity one encounters in this situation, as well as the elements of undisputable beauty experienced alongside silence itself. 

Made in collaboration with hugely talented Alex Hall, praised by DJs, press and critics for his DIY approach to his 'British Pop' sound, and heavyweight mix engineer Jay Pocknell (whose past associates include Alt-J and Marika Hackman).

Your Silence

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