Dead can Dance, Enya, Loreena McKennit, Blackmore's Night
Listen to our new song Elfennacht!
24th October 2008 we will release our new studio album. To give you a little appetizer we offer you the new Elane song "Elfennacht" for free download!
To receive the download link just write an e-mail to: elfennacht@elane-music.com and you will immediately get your resoponse e-mail with the link. (The e-mail adress will not be given to others)
It's free, but if you really like the song and want to support ELANE, we are kindly looking forward to your Paypal donation.
Just click on the button and follow further instructions. Thank you! ELANE
ELANE’s sources are the deep forests of the Sauerland (”The Sour Lands”). But meanwhile the five musicians Joran, Skaldir, Nico, Katrin and Simon live in Western, Southern and Middle Germany.
The virtuosi once again created with ease thier specific melange out of organic and electronic sounds which had become their trademark. With a fantastic female voice, acoustic and electronic guitars, violin and viola, soft sound scapes, drums and percussion as well as bombastic orchestral arrangements ELANE create their distinctive sound so that their music has an enormous recognition value.
ELANE are glad to have a rapidly growing fan base, which is as colourful as hardly another one. It is indeed a mirror of the musical languages that ELANE’s songs are speaking.
Band website: www.Elane-Music.com
”The Silver Falls” (2008)
”The Silver Falls”, ELANE’s third longplay album, has – besides the well-known folk elements of the first two cds – stronger accentuated electronic sounds, fine dark wave backgrounds as well as a little touch of melodic rock, a quantum of world music and some heavenly voices parts. All fit together by a fine orchestral sound, which is leading through the album – just like a leitmotif. In this variety of genres and deeper atmospheres the band unifies their enchanting sounds almost constantly with Drums and Percussion.
The Limited First Edition DigiPak of “The Silver Falls” contains – besides the regular 12 album songs – the bonus song “Three Roses” as well as an additional 5.1 Surround Mix of “Elfennacht”.
The album is released by Curzwehyl (also Faun, Persephone and many others).
The meaning of “The Silver Falls”
“The Silver Falls” are impressingly beautiful water falls in the land of Glenvore, the fantastic home of ELANE’s music. One stream ends here, and another one, even more lively is born. But the image of a waterfall also marks the almost never ending creativity which flew into the songs. The Silver shows the brilliance of the tracks and their noble grace. Silver can e.g. be found in the lyrics of the songs “Silverleaf”, “Paperboat & Silverkite” and “Elfennacht”.
Songs:
Open The Gates
Elfennacht
Silverleaf
The Land Through Your Eyes
Paperboat & Silverkite
The Emerald Princess
Crimson Lullaby: The Weight Of The World
Crimson Lullaby: The Dreamer
Amber Fields
My Promised Land
Enchantment (Dance With A Storm)
One Last Time
Bonus: Three Roses
Bonus: Elfennacht (5.1 Surround-Mix Data Track)
ELANE live
Since 2004 ELANE play live over Europe with changing shows.
They played live gigs on numerous festivals such as M‘era Luna (D), Wave Gotik Treffen (D), Trolls and Legends Festival (B), Ring*Con (official German Lord of the Rings convention) or the Burgfolk (D).
They also played concerts together with Qntal (D), Corvus Corax (D), In The Nursery (GB), Faun (D), John Kelly & Maite Itoiz, Dornenreich (A), Neun Welten (D), Unto Ashes (USA) and Lyriel (D).
A look to the Past
Quiet tunes, warm mooded sounds and a strongly fantastic atmosphere characterized ELANE’s debut album ”The Fire of Glenvore” (2004).
With the ”Love can’t wait” e.p. (2005 they bulit a musical bridge from their debut to the forthcoming second longplay cd ”Lore of Nén” (2006).
”Lore of Nén” was full of energy. A powerful, mighty orchestral sound marks the first notes. Then retreating into a familiar, atmospheric vocal ambience just to let the whitecaps dance again, as heard on ”Journey”. This is only the prelude to a new adventurous trip through the enchanted landscapes of ELANE’s fantastic world.
The departure into another land, leaving home... not only in ”The Night I left”, also in the real world ELANE had to take leave. Lead singer Joran leaves the beloved Sauerland in Autumn 2005 and moves southwards.
Thus, many of the songs heard on ”Lore of Nén” are marked by yearning and the search for a new home, but also by wanderlust.
What is the meaning of ”Lore of Nén”?
It’s a saga. ”Nén” is the Quenya word for ”Water”. ”The Saga of Water”, you could also say. Linking both languages, English and Quenya, Tolkien‘s langague of the Elves, shows ELANE also strike new paths on a linguistic level.
Not every song is directly related to water (like e.g. “Nen ar Tasar”, “Eyes of a Stranger” or “Pale Sea”). It‘s more about a life and a world in a constant state of flux. Never standing still, always going ahead. The song “On and on” is a good example therefor.
So far, all of ELANE‘s song lyrics had been written in English, but now there are also German and Quenya elements on ”Lore of Nén”. E.g. ”Licht” (”Light”) and ”Nen ar Tasar” (”Water and Willow”).
Also the soprano voice of guest musician Neniel Tindómerel lifts ELANE’s music onto yet another level. This diversified variety is the album‘s most important constitutional element.
Press voices
Zillo - Das Musikmagazin: Album of the Month
(First place in the Zillo Soundcheck): “Lore of Nén”
A great album filled with a fairytale’s epic, which stays at the highest stage from the beginning to the end.
Orkus (regarding “Love can’t wait”)
A pearl of the fantasy folk genre, sparkling as a diamond.
Sonic Seducer (regarding “The Fire of Glenvore”)
If you were enthusiastic about the Lord of the Rings soundtracks, you will love ELANE.
LARPzeit – Das Live-Rollenspiel-Magazin
(Live action role play magazine)
Cover story Issue 06-08/2008
FolkMetal.de (regarding “Lore of Nén”)
An extensive masterpiece. Simply world class!
GothicParadise.de (regarding “Lore of Nén”)
An album without any weakness, full of emotion and devotedness.
MetalGlory.de (regarding “Lore of Nén”)
ELANE created a little master piece of dark folk with a lot of atmosphere.
Metal.de (regarding “Lore of Nén”)
Lead singer Joran Elane is tempting and leading us into a world of magic and enchantment.
Hello Elane !! Just a small thankyou for taking the time to add us, it's really appreciated and it's great to have you on board. Hope to see you around soon.!
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Hallo Elane! Meine Freundin aus Hameln hat mich gebeten, die folgende Nachricht ein wenig zu verbreiten.....
"Die Stadt Hameln wird 2009 ihren 725. Geburtstag feiern. Die Geschichte um den Rattenfänger soll düster dargestellt werden. Es sind verschiedene Events, u. a. auch ein mittelalterliches Fest im März, geplant! Mittelalter-Bands können sich bei: stefan.schlichte@hameln-tourismus.de bewerben."
Und vielleicht ist das ja etwas für euch und ihr habt noch Zeit und auch Interesse, euch dort mal zu melden!? Alles Liebe.... Regina
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The virtuosi once again created with ease thier specific melange out of organic and electronic sounds which had become their trademark. With a fantastic female voice, acoustic and electronic guitars, violin and viola, soft sound scapes, drums and percussion as well as bombastic orchestral arrangements ELANE create their distinctive sound so that their music has an enormous recognition value. 
