Elena's Sandcastle
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Destiny In Black Destiny In Black
An experimental recording of "Destiny In Black" from SANDCASTLE's "Per Aspera Ad Astra" with vocals in Swedish. Dark and emotional.
ELENA'S SANDCASTLE is a one-person band founded by Elena Andersson as a side project of her first neoclassical/darkwave music experiment called GOTHIC LETHARGY. The music style of ELENA'S SANDCASTLE can be defined within several styles from neoclassical and etherial to gothic and darkwave. The music can be generally described as atmospheric, melodious and expressive.Band/artist history
The very idea of SANDCASTLE appeared in March, 1999, with the new material that sounded more progressive and melodic than old GOTHIC LETHARGY works. This new stuff couldn't be recorded properly in a very small and poorly equipped home studio. For almost 4 years the only member of ELENA'S SANDCASTLE, born and raised in a provincial Russian town, had to deal with extremely bad social and technical opportunities for realizing her ideas. Inspite of this fact she continued to record the new music from time to time and stored it on tapes that are a bit more reliable than memory. Some of these interesting, but almost destroyed recordings were used on SANDCASTLE's first instrumental album "Per Aspera Ad Astra" that was recorded between years 2003-2004 in Sweden. Here belong new versions of "Breathless" (1998) and "Rope-dancer" (2001).Have you performed in front of an audience?Several gigs were done with GOTHIC LETHARGY, the most important one took place in Moscow in January, 2001. Two larger solitary gigs I played at the local Rock Festival in Orel, together with bands S.C.A.L.P. and GOTHIC SKY, years 1998-1999. Though later I gradually grew disappointed in the idea of performing alone on the stage. The "new" SANDCASTLE has never played live for a large public, I don't count a number of small live performances for friends. In order to play live I would need at least two additional session musicians, a sound technician with good nerves and much stage equipment :)
Your musical influences
These bands have either been influencing or inspiring me: LYCIA, COCTEAU TWINS, LIZA GERRARD, ARCANA, THE GATHERING, AMORPHIS, GODGORY, THIS EMPTY FLOW, THE CURE, SAMAEL, NIGHTINGALE, AYREON, DEPECHE MODE...What equipment do you use?
A big secret about the small home studio! Though there is no secret about the studio's name - Fiery Lake Home Studio.Anything else?
New music from ELENA'S SANDCASTLE is going to contain vocals. If you are curious about what kind of vocals - you can listen to an mp3 fragment from "Destiny In Black" that you will find among the song fragments published here. It's possible that male vocals will be introduced into some of the songs in future - there is already a pair of singing beer-drinking vikings who are willing to do this special job.
Karlstad,
Sweden
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330619
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Comments (5)
Dreams made of sand like my dreams. Hard suggestions for me, a past return in my mind. Your music is beautiful. Thanks.
hey, Elena, I just heard Destiny in Black...it was like I was entering a gigantic Gothic Cathedral to meet my vampyric bride....like climbing a mountain to the summit of passions....
keep rockin', Rick....and many thanx
for checking out my crazy songs....
Hej.Jättecoolt sound.
Men jag skulle vilja att du sjöng mer på dom.Och så hade du iaf i mitt tycke lite mkt reverb/effekt på sången.Iaf den 1:a.
Ha de bra å lycka till
Tack för ditt trevliga mess du skrev till mig i april. Du gör faktiskt riktigt bra musik själv! Jag lyssnar på väldigt mycket liknande musik som du skapar, så jag gillar din musik skapt! Hälsningar från Tomas.
Very mighty and beautiful music, I´m impressed by the atmosphere you capture. Would be nice with more vocals. Keep up the good work.
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