ILLAY is a multi-instrumentalist and singer songwriter from Tel Aviv, based in Berlin. She uses foremost her cello in an extraordinary way, creating rhythms and sounds, utilizing looping and sound technologies, creating haunting soundscapes and surprising effects. Coming from an Australian family, grown up in Israel, she forms a mixture of east and west, classic and electronic. 
Her debut album reveals an innovative musical style with honest to the pain lyrics which powerfully engage, touch the softest spot in your belly and move your feet at the same time.

Bred on jazz at home, and on the music of the Paris streets,the Gypsy art of Django Reinhardt,
bal musette, and North African rai, singer, songwriter, blues harmonica player Florence Joelle started collecting rock’n’roll, doo-wop, Latin jazz, and early blues as a girl.  Her music draws from all these influences, carving out a unique sound that, although deeply rooted in the past, vibrates in the present

A twee retro singer she is not, though.  Ever socially
conscious, her songs depict what happens around her. 
The gritty ’29 Bus Blues’ tells of an assault witnessed on a London night bus, while ‘The God Of Things’,written during the riots of August 2011, warns of the materialistic world we live in.  ‘How Many Chickens Are You Missing Today?’, a protest song composed on
behalf of the thousands of Roma brutally and illegally expelled from France in 2010, was recently included on an compilation by Amnesty International.

Released in 2011, her first album, Kiss Of Fire, was described by the Arts Desk as ‘Smokin’, while Michael Dregni (author of the Django Reinhardt biographies) said in Vintage Guitar Magazine that she sings “rock ’n’ roll like Billie Holiday might, croons a torch ballad as Wanda Jackson may, and spices it all with a bit of
Patti Smith attitude." 

While paying homage to the past, Florence Joelle
has carved out a unique sound that vibrates in the present. 

Some of Ele's most noted songs have been without choruses and also featured dramatically atmospheric dynamics, conveyed through either Analog synth and 80s style crescendos, lavish orchestral , looped/shifting baselines, underpinned by high and exacting production values and involving sometimes copious digital editing and mixing. What is more the pace of Ele's music has often been slower than prevalent synthpop at the time.

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