South African-born American composer Emlyn Ellis Addison centers his moody Electronic works on unconventional instrumentation, complex rhythms, and unusual meters. His beautiful, craning melodies and lavish rhythmic patterns are organic, driving, and seductive, with influences from Massive Attack, William Orbit, and Radiohead. Emlyn's Orchestral works recapture the spirit of courage and entrepreneurship of the American West, with sensibilities of Copland, Glass and Reich, while often employing minimalist rhythms and transformations of popular melodies.
Emlyn Ellis Addison's "The Eve of Nowhere: Touching and Dreamy5" is our January 2021 Editors' Choice Award-winner. Understated and sublime, this song is an uncanny fit for the present moment of dual pandemic and political exhaustion. This production shines with ultra-sparse keyboards and digital swells and effects, evoking a magical inner sanctuary that we all need to escape to from time to time to rejuvenate and prepare for what comes next.
Emlyn Ellis Addison's Ambient works occupy a space somewhere between film music and minimal Electronica; mesmerizing patterns, shimmering harmonies, and crackling electronics. He studied composition at Arizona State University, and earned a Master of Composition - New Media at the California Institute of The Arts.
A dense, sophisticated and chilled out ambient instrumental track for analog and digital electronics, guitar, treated flute and electronic percussion. Moody and ethereal, this is nostalgic, memory-evoking lo-fi music that suggests contemplation and reflection. Lose yourself in the thick vibrations. Instrumental, Lounge, Chillout
Optimistic, forward-looking and sophisticated. Ambient sound treatments and intelligent electronics are paired with an unusual meter, instilling the music with ever-shifting focal points and a sense of perpetual momentum. Sharp instrumentation with complex rhythmic interplay in a downtempo vibe. Instrumental, Lounge, Downtempo
Thick analog bass, moody rhythms and crisp, sweeping pads. Restless, commanding and forward-thinking. This is thoughtful, contemplative music that swells then recedes. Chill-out music for big days. Instrumental, Lounge, Chillout
Playful and searching, this quirky and unconventional music suggests a cheeky exuberance and a come-what-may chutzpah. Rambunctious drums and floating pads make strange bedfellows in this midnight carousel. Fun, whimsical and independent-minded. Instrumental, Lounge, Chillout
Moody melodic motifs over hypnotic rhythms. Spacious, intelligent backing music that evokes reflection, purpose and determination. Edgy and dynamic but restrained; this is music for thinking. Instrumental, Lounge, Chillout
An intelligent, silky downtempo track for analog and digital electronics. A unique pairing of modern urban electronic stylings with acoustic piano and harpsichord interjections imparts a tactile "neo-retro" sensibility. Rhythms are complex and multifacteted. Instrumental, Lounge, Downtempo
