WE DON'T PLAY SONGS. WE PLAY ALBUMS.

Wooden Elephant are a contemporary classical string quintet who reimagine classic electronic-based albums and present them in their entirety as totally acoustic, longform contemporary classical works.

Working alongside PODIUM Festival Esslingen (Germany), Wooden Elephant completed a 3-album series, comprising Björk's Homogenic (2017), Radiohead's Kid A (2018), and Beyoncé's Lemonade (2019, complete with the poetry of Warsan Shire from the visual album).

A big inspiration for the ensemble and the arrangements came from Wooden Elephant violist-composer Ian Anderson’s work with the London Contemporary Orchestra. In 2014-15, the LCO collaborated extensively with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood on his contemporary string chamber music, culminating in a European tour, and playing on Radiohead’s latest album, A Moon Shaped Pool. Along the way Jonny continually experimented with sound production techniques, including introducing unusual objects such as plectrums and pacay shakers – an approach with massively influenced Wooden Elephant's album interpretations.

Wooden Elephant have performed their albums at venues such as Berlin Konzerthaus, Philharmonie de Paris’ Days Off Festival, London Jazz Festival, and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.

Future plans include developing an acoustic concert version of Aphex Twin’s massive double album Drukqs, in collaboration with prepared piano specialist Mathias Halvorsen.

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