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heidi elva
Ambient / Folk / Other

if i was a tree, i would be a willow



Melbourne
Australia

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Last Login:  7/19/2009
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Member Since8/27/2006
Band Websitewww.heidielva.com
Band Membersheidi elva - vocals, harp, samples
guests include...
peter hollo - cello
joe cummins - trumpet
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Record Labelvitamin records
Type of LabelIndie


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Jul 16 2009 8:00P
Getrudes Brown Couch Fitzroy, Melbourne
Jul 22 2009 8:00P
The Empress Hotel Fitzroy North

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Dom Alessio - The Brag Magazine - Sydney

.... Elva's arresting debut album Ships and Trees is an excursion onto wide, open plains of sparse, minimal melody..... Her touchstones here aren't folk as much as they are acts like Portished.... Traditional song structures are replaced with cyclical songs based around Elva's harp whose oriental infused lines fall from her fingers like droplets of water...Elva's voice is velvety and soft and it almost lulls you to sleep...

Bernard Zuel – Sydney Morning Herald

.... the defining characteristic of this elusive but captivating album from the Sydney-based New Zealander is all the things left unplayed..... Elva creates an atmosphere of low temperature and low light where single notes hang in the air and some of Portishead’s creeping dread arrives in a mournful trumpet. As much oriental as occidental, Ships And Trees takes folk music, the hint of electronica and a gothic touch and builds first ambience and then a song, drawing you in by not showing its wares until you have absorbed the mood..........

DB Magazine Adelaide

.........Elva instead builds layers of strange, beautiful music to create something altogether singular yet instantly beguiling in its individuality.... Elva's songs sway from ambient to dramatic, often within moments... The "otherness" of the music, whilst not creepy per se, certainly demands attention - it can also be slightly eerie, something added to by the often strange, almost Lynch-ian found sounds......... embrace the otherness and the eeriness, however, and you will be rewarded, because it's the beguiling oddness that makes this music so beautiful.

City Hub - Sydney

.... Ships and Trees evokes the sound of the last moments of twilight .............Elva explores the music of imaginary film noir soundtracks

Tsaunami Magazine - Brisbane

If silhouettes had sound, Heidi Elva’s ‘Ships and Tree’s would be it. The album is sparse, with hints of darkness and sadness. Ten ambient and folk-laced tracks of beautiful compositions and lyrical poetry, Elva has created an album that truly defines what sound is...

Top albums of 2008 – Katharsis Radio – Canada

4/5 - The Pessac Awards – France

Top albums of 2008 – Ondarock - Italy


Ships and Trees
Released 8 September, 2008

CDs and high quality MP3’s
available now from VITAMIN RECORDS


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Genevieve & Jezebel





Jul 17 2009 10:19 AM

Hey heidi, lovely to meet you the other night, stay in touch, Xoxo gen
Lamplight





Jul 17 2009 4:47 AM

Request Lamplight’s new single ‘A sun that will not rise’ at Triple J:

www.abc.net.au/triplej/requests/make_a_request.htm

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Eva Popov





Jul 17 2009 2:27 AM

Heidi, so glad to see you're in town seeing shows, even gladder will I be when I'm really seeing you play,
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kristoffer paulsen





Jul 10 2009 7:30 AM

great flyer! Will be at Gertrudes fer sure!!
Cilla Jane





Jul 8 2009 11:03 AM


When are you coming to visit me?
Lamplight





Jul 8 2009 2:50 AM

Make a request at Triple J for A sun that will not rise by Lamplight

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/requests/make_a_request.htm

This film clip was made by Glass Kingdom Films! Please visit www.belladonnathemovie.com to see their feature film to be released later this year with Lamplight appearing in the film and on the sound track!

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Jun 30 2009 11:40 PM

Thanks for the friendship~
Alana Grace fan page
brian campeau





Jun 29 2009 1:53 PM

hello dearest heidi. yes I got my pedal, but have been stupid busy, so forgot to tell you. you rock.
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mOnsieur





Jun 22 2009 7:51 PM

HELLO HEIDI
JOIN MONSIEUR ALSO ON NOW
kazu *h*





Jun 17 2009 11:39 AM

Thank you so much for your friendship & love !
Keep in touch !!
kisses, (*'ε..*)
kazu
friendship & love..
Manger





Jun 15 2009 12:12 AM

Don't forget now ...

Manger + Emma Davis + Nina Stamell this Thursday at the Sando!

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oxxxx
Pleq - New Album - Out Now!!!





Jun 14 2009 8:46 PM

Beautiful tunes and voice...
The Rowan Amber Mill





Jun 10 2009 10:23 PM

Hi . We will be releasing a 10 track pastoral psych folk CD entitled 'midsummers' on 24th June 2009. midsummers is currently available to buy from our website www.millersounds.co.uk . You can hear some tracks from midsummers on our myspace player. Best wishes, The Rowan Amber Mill.
Lamplight





Jun 5 2009 2:36 PM

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waiting for guinness





May 31 2009 10:46 AM

Come Down for last show til December. New Songs, NEW VENUE, New Guitarist, New Shoes!!
Roland K Smith & The Sinners





May 18 2009 4:32 AM

Ryu





Apr 29 2009 4:48 PM

thanks add.
beautiful songs!

Ryu
WINDJAMMER'S


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Apr 24 2009 6:22 AM

Hello
many thanks from France
for the add it's a real pleasure
to be in the lot of your friends
it's a nice day for us
Long life at your and our music

Friendships

Gihem for Windjammer's

Marco Missano





Apr 25 2009 8:11 AM

JOY MACHINE WINNER as BEST MUSIC VIDEO at the LONDON INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2009


Joy Machine Videoclip


thanks to everybody!!!
by
Marco Missano
shanyio





Apr 20 2009 3:43 PM

Thank You for your friendship!

Shanyio

wonderful sounds!

A.
Vic Farrell





Apr 19 2009 8:36 AM



Vic Farrell's Songs from Space are available now at www.myspace.com/pyjamasfarrell


See you next you're in Melbourne!!

Love
Vic
Floatweed





Apr 17 2009 6:49 PM

an album out! how did i miss this?! must. purchase. now.
The Inspector Cluzo





Apr 10 2009 2:51 PM

Hey ! We're in Australia !

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Mar 31 2009 3:35 AM

City Feigning Sleep
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