Name: Freedom by Elysian Drift
Duration: 4 min 11 s
Description: From the band's Keyboardist, Ian Skinner, Freedom starts out high energy and... well, attempts to go "higher." Forget seatbelts and guardrails for this one as the 'Drift' points us to that transcendent trust that inspires spirits to soar.

Elysian Drift asks, "where is my electricity?"  This vintage progressive rock tune from the Canadian rock foursome considers where each of us invests our 'energy.' As the band's surprise vocalist muses, "somethin' different, I guess... but, ah, I don't know."  

Where's My Electricity

Elysian Drift wonders when the mask will fall. This progressive rock tune takes a multi-stylistic journey to the point where the 'reality' of any situation breaks the fragile facade so often used to placate and protect. Is your "fear of gravity" sleeping?

My Charade

Guitarist/Vocalist, James Hrkach, delves into the isolated world of the self-indulgent. Fuelled with influences from Floyd and Rush, this progressive/alternative piece is rumoured to be the first movement of a trilogy following the protagonist’s climb out of a pit of navel-gazing despair.

Speculum

From the band's Keyboardist, Ian Skinner, Freedom starts out high energy and... well, attempts to go "higher." Forget seatbelts and guardrails for this one as the 'Drift' points us to that transcendent trust that inspires spirits to soar.

Freedom

Elysian Drift… Forty years in the making. We’re not kidding!

Almost forty years! Four friends from a small rural Ontario town who had the audacity to think that they could push the musical boundaries of the rock/progressive rock genre following in the footsteps of their musical influences – Pink Floyd, Rush, Supertramp, Yes, Chick Corea, The Beatles, etc.

So why did it take so long? What happened?

In a word, ‘Life’ happened – first jobs, to first loves; the marriages, the separations; births and deaths; diversions and conversions. And in spite of it all, an inexplicable energy and chemistry between us has created a unique bond under which we gather and for which we have given the name, Elysian Drift. These first songs being released were crafted in the late seventies and early eighties.

We were a bunch of kids trying to say things about which we had little or no experience; not to mention very limited musical skills with which to express them. Today we’re definitely older, maybe a little wiser and just a tad more proficient in our playing abilities.

Elysian Drift is… 
James Hrkach – guitars, lead vocals 
Jan Hrkach – bass guitar, vocals 
Mike Lacroix – drums, vocals 
Ian Skinner – keyboards, vocals

Freedom

Elysian Drift

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