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.
Victory is within reach. A commanding central theme dominates here, willing us forward to brave whatever may come. It is triumphant, dramatic and dangerous yet optimistic. We are transported from a fate that awaits us to the here-and-now of doing whatever it takes to prevail and succeed. Get on it. Instrumental, Dramatic, Energizing Music
