elsiane’s blog

Hi!

Happy New Year.

Vaporous came in at number 29 in the Aural Bliss 50 Most Blissful tracks of 2007 countdown! They will be counting them down starting Jan 20th on Aural Bliss - Auralgasms Radio.

Aural Bliss airs every Sunday 10PM-Midnight EST. 2 hrs of Dreampop, Britpop, Triphop, Shoegaze and Electronica.

There is a live chat during the show for listeners all over the world to meet and discuss the music. we would like to invite you to tune in! Auralgasms Radio <http://www.auralgasms.com/radio/>

Cheers,

elsiane

In the past months many people have been asking us about our album cover wanting to know more about the image . The contortionist image is actually a painting created by Montreal artists known as MTAF (Krista Bursey and Jason Wasserman). This 48″x 36″ painting was inspired by the song Mend. This contortionist represents Elsieanne’s vocal melodies, it’s what they called a Vocal contortion.

For us this work symbolizes and evokes many key elements that coincide with the music; the connection to the human body and soul, anxiety and paranoia as well as a discomforting beauty.

Elsiane is a project that believes strongly in the power of visual arts, they have been able to work with artists “MTAF” who have connected with the themes presented in the album, and through their own vision they have been able to translate and transcend their medium into not only the album artwork but into the visual experience of Elsiane’s live show.

Here are paintings MTAF did for the interior packaging of Hybrid.
www.mtaf.ca

The narrative of the album Hybrid is a journey of light to dark. It is the struggle of the soul within the physical body, to find the light and spirituality within. It is finding spirituality in nature and humanity in a technological existence, a representation of life through the process of change and struggle. It is the harmonious balance that juggles good and evil, which allows us all to see a glimpse that there is something more powerful then what we know.
elsiane