Gardens & Pillars is the point of contact for business-related inquiries regarding the music of MOLOTOV ELYSIAN and REFLECTING SKIN and their vocalist LEAH CHANDRA.
Music is Available for Sync/Master-Use Licensing (MFN or Budget) Full recordings will be provided for placement consideration upon request. Hear CHOICE clips both above and below.
Reflecting Skin clips in top Myspace player:
remember me
(ambient soundscape) **
heavy hand
(ambient rock) **
...Unfind my shell. With your laptop come with your password block. Console my eyes. Have a lot. Lose a lot. Lose it all....
More Reflecting Skin key tracks (clips in store above):
soul desert
(midtempo, dark rock) **
seven mile drive
(midtempo, dark rock) **
i dream, you sleep
(bluesy ambient pop) **
haley
(ambient-psych. soundscape) **
empty house
(ambient rock w/ world-style intro) **
Of Reflecting Skin:
"The best wrap up I can give is this: should PJ Harvey ever put down her electric guitar, move to Tibet, and instead take up the "folded wine glass" (listed in the liner notes of "Haley") then this would probably be the result. It's not PJ Harvey, though. It's REFLECTING SKIN, lead by Leah Chandra...." CRUD MAG JAN '02
"Leah Chandra has a mesmerizing voice...which sometimes suggests influences by Kate Bush... but more often suggests only an intangible supernatural power." THE NOISE JUL '99
"...And like Ofra Haza, theres a lot of Middle Eastern influences percolating in this cup of mystical sonic tea." INSTANT MAG SEPT/OCT '99
"...Falling somewhere in the fold between Lisa Gerrard and the defunct They Eat Their Own...." 24/7 NOV '99
Could I unshine Heaven's dome, uncover all that we've become? In your dream, a child is wise. You feel you're overcome. Please believe your kinder face, and you'll say you're not a fool anymore....
7. alabaster walls
(ambient/dream pop) **
...Your heart and soul, they're never far. You're rapt in gold. They're never far, when tears from the sky call...Your time is come. I know your life is won, if you're even when you're done....
8. dark room blueprint
(ambient soundscape) **
9. 130,363,800 Seconds
(ambient rock) **
Of Molotov Elysian:
"...'While We Were Sleeping' then, is the sonic equivalent of nightmares and nice dreams wrapped into a fifty-minute experience." Leonardslair.co.uk, Jan '07
"...If you are an connoisseur of electronic music strewn with a celestial voice, While We Were Sleeping is right up your alley! Arrangements are quite simply brilliant for this type of music....To give an idea, imagine Kate Bush with arrangements of This Mortal Coil...." (YKT) Bang Bang Te Mort, Volume 1 13 (translated from French)
"Molotov Elysian has a sound all their own. ...if you are searching for something new, edgy, and different with some solid musicianship behind it, you should definitely check them out." Looseylucy.com, Nov '06
"Fans of Björk, Sigur Rós, and Dead Can Dance will definitely want to give this CD a spin. 8 out of 10 skulls." Michael Casano, Virus-Mag.com, Nov '06
"Angelic vocals raining down through atmospheric dance beats take the mind on a pleasant trip to a world of pure feeling. ...I can hear some Tori Amos ... some Tangerine Dream and even a little Black Tape For a Blue Girl. ... Skinny Puppy mixed in.... I would very much suggest check this band out. ... I will have to spin these tracks a few hundred more times."
Black Angel Promotions, Nov '06
"[Like] Sarah McLachlan meets Trent Reznor....something you should check on, even if it's not [falling] into [what you consider the genre of] your taste...." Northeastintune.com, Oct-Nov '06
"...fantastic dark daydream..."
ALL MUSIC GUIDE, Unquiet Grave IV '04
More Reflecting Skin
one - album: agony star
(alternative w/ spanish guitar)
blue night - album: agony star
(alternative)
...To know desire and after all that you're not there yet. Is there someone you knew that you cannot find? At least there are stars in your heavens. Not choked on the vine. A faded mystical notion, a faded trace, a faded yearning to remember the time and place. And, it's down to the wire. Don't hold your breath. Let me go. It's going to be a long, blue night. Don't close your eyes. I won't stand beneath the falling, broken skies. Don't dry me before the rain. It's going to be a long, blue night.
shadow of your world - album: agony star
(alternative rock)
...Pass before my eyes like a strange rogue wine, shadowing my every disappearing line. Lover I will bleed no salt from my eyes. Dancing on the sand, on the palm of your hand. It's no surprise to find you here. You're dancing on the sky. You're dancing on the night. I don't want to go as a fool you know - not a fool or a king."
Molotov Elysian
