Pagan Blues, by Elli De Mon

Pagan Blues

by Elli De Mon

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Two years on from the success of Countin'The Blues , which saw her lauded by the international blues and rock media, recording an exclusive session for BBC Radio 4's flagship magazine programme Loose Ends , Italian musician Elli de Mon returns with a new full-length album.
Hailing from the northeastern city of Vicenza, for more than a decade Elli's been thrilling blues audiences across Europe with her unique take on the form. To say she's a blues singer or blues guitarist is a considerable understatement: conservatoire-schooled, her oeuvre encompasses rezophonic guitar, drums, bells, voice and saturated sound – she is, in every sense, a real one woman band.

Strongly influenced by the primordial blues tradition (Bessie Smith, Fred Mc Dowell, Son House) crosshatched with primitive garage punk, Elli's sound is shaped into a lysergic journey through her soul. Sharing stages with the likes of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Reverend Beatman, Cedric Burnside and James Leg, she's released seven albums since 2014.

A labour of love, Countin'The Blues was recorded to accompany her book Countin'The Blues: Indomitable Women , celebrating the queens of the blues. Pagan Blues , though, is something different... Pagan because it seeks to accommodate multiplicity, questions, insecurity, darkness. Pagan because it was born to provoke those that would cage the blues into a devotional, museum object; who claim to talk about real blues, about truth. Elli does not have the truth. And she hopes she won't ever get it, because that takes her to distant, even uncomfortable, places. Pagan Blues was born of this discomfort.

Praise for Countin'The Blues ...
"Brash, in your face and utterly compelling, you owe to yourself to hear this lady... 4/5" Spiral Earth
"Whether reinvented and reworked or sticking close to the originals, de Mon manages to bring a new life to the songs on Countin'The Blues , one that will no doubt bring these classics to a whole new audience... 4/5" Louderthanwar
"Anyone wishing to introduce themselves to the amazing Elli De Mon and the pioneering female blues singers of the 1920's should give this stunning album a listen." At The Barrier
"Holy Madam Mississippi, there are some absolute treasures to be found here!" Dancing About Architecture

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released April 21, 2023

Elli de Mon : voice, guitars, lapsteel, sitar, dilruba, organ, drums
Recorded and mixed by Marco Degli Esposti - Happenstance Recording Studio, Carbonarola (Mn), Italy.
Mastered by Andrea De Bernardi at Eleven Mastering – Busto Arsizio (Va), Italia.
Pics by Lara Zanardi.

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Area Pirata was born in 2001 immediately tended to Garage, R'n'R, HC-Punk…
We care about reissue of old records no more available or unissued as well as new records recorded from bands on activities with an attitude alike ours.
We tought and we still think that our attitude and determination could be a factor to help those real underground scenes not depending strictly on the kind of muisc! ... more

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