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ELME, formed by Sebastian Bode and Markus Rom, is an instrumental electronic duet based in Leipzig. Both sound artists create textures, which trigger profound moods and images in the minds of the listeners. ELME’s music bears a crackling, pulsating ambient architecture – melodies and harmonies, enriched with sound modulation and improvised overlays. 
With the album SHIMMER, Rom and Bode want to hit the spot that illuminates the possibilities of creating music without being bound to musical corsets. Music that exists far from well-worn paths – a merger of athmosphere, soundscapes and subtle rhythms. The cooperation of both musicians initially started as a synergetic exchange of chords, beats and sound textures.
A test model for informality: Deliberately leaving it lying around and finishing the postproduction during the beginnings of the pandemic resulted in seven experimental-electronica tracks.
For Bode and Rom, also active in projects like Wooden Peak, Oh No Noh and Elephants On Tape, ELME is a extension of the bandwidth of their musical output. Besides sound generators like modular systems, synths and sounds from archives, also guitar, drum set and strings come to use. ELME’s debut album SHIMMER will be released on June 25th digitally, and as a limited tape-edition via Leipzig based labels TELESKOP and ALLMYGHOSTS.
As a first glance into the album SHIMMER, the self titled opener ELME will drop on may 14th. A whirring eruption of acoustic samples, a stunning melody and analog synths, flowing into the vocal sample “You must think first, before you move”. The track’s mood is not unnecessarily minded, though. One rather gets the impression, that Rom and Bode clearly simply started running freely to end up finding the essence of their influences. Music-Making for the sake of music, with a casual, seemingly unintentional uniqueness, which impresses us a lot at TELESKOP.
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