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Escape Velocity
Elam
Inventive, ethnic-tinged flute improvistations interwoven with original beats, drone textures, and otherworldly sounds.
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Oh When | 3:56 | Play |
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Causal Approach | 3:48 | Play |
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Cobra Negra | 4:05 | Play |
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Plebeian Trace | 4:02 | Play |
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Welcome Home | 4:00 | Play |
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The Energy of Master Wave | 4:24 | Play |
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Offre d'Amour | 4:30 | Play |
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Spoon Wraparound | 4:24 | Play |
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Spinning Monk | 4:06 | Play |
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Agarbathi | 3:51 | Play |
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Greetings, Earthling | 4:36 | Play |
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Parade Victory Procession | 4:44 | Play |
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Vortex-Like Wah | 4:05 | Play |
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Step, Industrial Style | 3:35 | Play |
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The Grace of Stone | 3:23 | Play |
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Elam: Escape Velocity
Improvisational / ElectroJazz / Jazz Fusion
Interview With Elam About His First Flute Release, "Escape Velocity"
Q: "Elam, What is this album about?"
A: "Well, the title is a command: ESCAPE VELOCITY. As in make an escape from velocity. We're all hurtling down the road, every second of every day, charging down a very clear and distinct road... So at times it's easy to just keep going the same direction down that same road - because you have so much velocity, so much momentum! But the key is to Escape Velocity. If you can break the velocity of your current directions, then you can steer yourself down any road, and to anywhere you please."
Q: Where did the idea for this album come from?
A: "Well, after making a lot of ambient and pop-type music, I had come to a place where I wanted to experiment with acoustic instruments, and how they could fit into and become something unique; I wanted to create a new context for the an acoustic instrument. Naturally, the place for me to begin, and the acoustic instrument to experiment with, was the flute, simply because that is the instrument that I've played for most of my life. I got my first flute in 1991 and learned how to make some noise on it pretty quickly. It grew from there; over the years I studied with some of the greatest living masters & had some noteworthy success on the "classical" performance & competition side, including two separate concerto performances with full-orchestra and several first prizes in high school and college. But as with all good things, times change & so do people... In recent years I began to take a less serious approach to playing, because after all it is the "playing" of music! Now my aim is to express myself through music, whether that be with a reinterpretation of a Bach Sonata, an improvisation set against a drone, or one of my flute riffs captured and electronically manipulated to sound like an electric guitar... In developing this album, I fully enjoyed the "play" in "playing music"!
Q: How many song did you initially record for this album?
A: "Just 15. All 15 made it to the final cut. I was about to remove one or two tracks, but I decided to keep them because they grew on me."