I’ve recently been playing a lot with Cobweb Collective head-honcho Aaron Diaz. We both play together in Steve Tromans’ De-bop band, and after his commission Musickosmos last year we decided to get together and start a project based around using effects to manipulate the sound of our instruments. We’ve both been listening to a lot of similar musicians, and after a few plays we started to have an idea of how the project should sound.

For our first gig at the Harmonic Programme launch in March, we drafted MIke Hurley in on drums to give us another weapon in our sonic arsenal. We’ve since played an extended set at Flatpack Festival too. The name of the band, Elda, comes from the Swedish word which means to electrify or to set alight. Hopefully it’s appropriate to our attitude and the music, and reflects our interest in the great music and musicians coming out of Scandinavia which we’ve been checking out. Video of our first gig is below, as well as a recording of our second gig at Flatpack. Enjoy.

Elda at the Harmonic programme launch party:

Elda at Flatpack festival:
Elda live at Flatpack 2011 by Chris Mapp

Tags: Aaron Diaz, chris mapp, Elda, festival, Flatpack, Harmonic, Mike Hurley