The Ridge

Yume

[Electronic/Indie/Uplifting/Ambient]-"Yume"

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"Evolution" is a collection of blurry reflections, an emotional journey through memories of love, and loss.

▒ CREDITS ▒

Enthusiastically written, painstakingly recorded, carefully mixed and diligently mastered by Francesco Berta

▒ Flute: Luke Howells

▒ Bassoon: Mike Summers

▒ Violin: Liam Raw

▒ Cello: Aríanna Hönnudóttir

░ SPECIAL THANKS ░

My family, Sara, Kieron, Isaac and my prehistoric friends.

Additional thanks to Piero and Simone for their late night last minute mixing advice: I hope all the kick drums sound louder now.

Evolution

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Adagio

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Flicker

"Time Lapse" is a track written by Marie-Anne Fischer for the "Modern Majestic Builds" album by Gothic Storm Music. 

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Time Lapse

Stream / Download: https://smarturl.it/elskavon-nerves

Nerves / Familiarity is the first official start to Elskavon’s next album era, and it’s a representation not only of composer Chris Bartels’ sound over the years, but also a metaphorical look inside his mind. That is, one of contrast.

With Elskavon’s sound, there’s always been a contrast, and marriage, of grandeur and intimacy. Nerves / Familiarity is no exception.

While it starts out quiet, the listener can immediately feel the enormity of Nerves. The sustained sound is that of Bartels slowly drawing a string of yarn across his old spinet piano’s strings. Only a minute and half in, the sound is thick and full, layered with falsetto vocals fed through modular synthesizers. It hasn’t taken long to be engulfed in the grandeur. 

However, as quickly as it arrives, there’s a departure. An intimate and rhythmic cassette texture, signaled by a slow tonic modulation, foreshadows a look at the second track - the contrast.

Familiarity begins with a bed of introspective notes and textures - mostly that of high piano notes and chopped up Rhodes improvisations. There’s a certain closeness with this sound, and a contrast to the large reverb-soaked fabric that leads Nerves. Then halfway through the song, there is a short build - an encore, if you will, to the grandeur of the first track.

Much like these songs and past Elskavon albums, there is a journey of contrasts with every creative turn for Bartels, finding himself deep in a whirlwind of excitement and fear, anticipation and anxiety, inspiration and frustration. And while being fully aware of the negative sides of that whirlwind, there’s an indescribable beauty and hope in the choice to keep writing, to keep moving. And to not simply run from the negatives, but to allow them to inspire, to motivate.

A creative journey should never be easy or comfortable. If it is, the other side will most certainly be lacking in the beauty and depth it so desires.

With this next album era, Bartels is choosing to embrace the contrast.

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Nerves

HOME

‘Home is all about my happy place - the Farm. The idea was to recreate that sense of peace and contentment that I feel when I’m up there.'

Released with Eyegaze Music

Home

HOME - Movement 1

"Phemie’s Walk’ was written in response to the final walk Louise had with her dad Chris. It was on a remote trail in the Scottish Highlands, and the walk itself ended up at a vista overlooking the dramatic landscape below. The beautiful, yet bleak surroundings coupled with the very real and raw emotion when one is facing their own mortality, made for an incredibly bittersweet and profound memory that we wanted to capture musically."
credits
released October 2, 2020
Written by Zands & Louise Anna Duggan
Produced & mixed by Oli Jacobs
Mastered by Guy Davie
Recorded at Real World Studios, UK
Artwork by Melanie Kretzer

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Minihi - Phemie's Walk

Through a mistake this faster version came into existence. Finally I thought it sounded better than the original song. Do you think it´s too fast?
Thanks!

The Time We Have (Faster Version)

AUG 2010……
The Echelon Effect came to life amid the long winter nights of February 2009, born from a burning desire to fall in love with music again. It started with a laptop and an idea: write a track, and make it huge. But one track became four, an EP that needed an audience. The tracks were posted on MySpace. And people began to listen.

‘Leaving It Behind’ was followed by two more EPs and remixes for The Appleseed Cast and City Breathing. Word spread, and the tracks began to attract positive reviews and gather airplay. What had begun as a way to stave off the dark and the cold had turned into something more.

The Echelon Effect’s debut full-length, ‘Reunion’, was the final part of a quartet of recordings that form ‘Wires and Tapes,’ an 141-minute sequential loop of tracks, each bleeding into the next and the last into the first. As a thank-you to the people who had been instrumental in the evolution of the Echelon Effect, fans were invited to record spoken statements about what home meant to them, which were incorporated into the album’s title track.

More remixes followed, for God Is An Astronaut, Codes In The Clouds, Our Ceasing Voice, Good Weather For An Airstrike and EVOLV among others. In March 2010 The Echelon Effect began work on ‘Mosaic’, their second full-length, featuring the addition of Steve T on drums, it was released on August 9th 2010.

Pushing forward a new project in which the entire year of 2011 is depicted in film. The audio to this being released throughout the year in four EP's. Part 1 was released on 18th April. 