Music 🎵
Six instrumental pieces by Del Elle. Liverpool, UK.
Del Elle's music shares the same sensibility as the visual work — contemplative, atmospheric, built from loops and layers. Each piece is either a response to a composer or a release of something that had been waiting internally for years.
All six tracks are available on 26 streaming platforms and stores including Spotify and Apple Music.
Gymnopédie Loop (February 2023)
Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No.1 — especially the beginning — has always struck a chord. This is a response to it. Born out of a desire to continue the introductory loop and let other instruments join the piano in its weaving dance.
Piano, flute and other instruments. Lo-fi, contemplative, unhurried.
Shall We Begin? (February 2023)
Influenced by the work of Max Richter. Building from a loop of vibraphone and harp, with strings — violin, viola, cello, double bass — joining gradually. An exploration of how individual voices accumulate into something larger.
Vibraphone, harp, violin, viola, cello, double bass. Lo-fi, ambient, contemporary classical.
Morn Steps (March 2023)
A beat and chords that had been waiting in the mind for years before finally finding a way out. Unlike the first two pieces which responded to existing composers, this one came from inside — waiting to come out.
Bass guitar, electric guitar, clarinet, flute, oboe, English horn. Lo-fi, instrumental.
Strings Reply (March 2023)
A companion and response to Morn Steps. Where Morn Steps is grounded and rhythmic, Strings Reply answers with a lighter, more ethereal quality. The two pieces are designed to be heard as a pair.
Harp, strings and woodwind.
Season New (March 2023)
Influenced by Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians — one of the most significant pieces of the 20th century, built from interlocking patterns that shift and accumulate almost imperceptibly. Season New is a shorter experimental response to that approach, exploring speed and pattern. A first step toward something larger still to come.
Instrumental, experimental, contemporary classical.
Beach Steps (March 2023)
An exploration of the key of C major — a key that has always evoked something specific: blue skies, turquoise seas, the tropics, white beaches. The musical equivalent of Tropira, the invented coastal landscape that appears in the Fields, Mountains and Tropira marker abstract collection.
The key was discovered through Noteflight — the realisation that the music that had always felt most natural had a name.
Instrumental, ambient, contemporary classical.
All six tracks available on 26 streaming platforms and stores including Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.
Gymnopédie Loop, Shall We Begin? and Morn Steps are also available to stream and download on Bandcamp.