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Local Roots

11 Apr 2019

Interview with ELKI

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Interview with ELKI

ELKI is a Sydney singer-songwriter with a passion for the melodic mastery of Burt Bacharach and an ongoing obsession with the fiery pop dramatics and genius of Kate Bush.

We interviewed ELKI on Local Roots and played her new track ‘Nightmare’, a playful song of underwater romantic disaster that arrived in the songwriter’s sleep.

It’s a textured, percussive song, with vocal harmonies threading in and out of the march of the beats, hand claps, and mouth pops. It’s rich and full and features layer upon layer of vocal parts to produce a brand of pop that snaps your attention straight into focus.

“I wrote a large chunk of ‘Nightmare’ in my sleep and woke up with the opening verse fully formed.” She explains further that writing comes out of daydreaming and switching off the phone, getting into a subconscious state and tuning out. I think that’s where ‘Nightmare’ came from – my brain looking for a way to express all those pent up ideas. If I haven’t been tweaking a melody, scribbling a lyric, or re-recording a demo, I feel like it’s a day wasted. That’s why I’m a firm believer in turning the technology off and doing your own thing.”

Want to premiere a track?

Get in touch with us! Please send all submissions to localroots@joy.org.au – we love getting new submissions and keen to hear your new track. We only play tracks that have been released within the last 4-6 weeks, so make sure it’s super new and hopefully we’ll give it a spin.

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