Elena Setien - Moonlit Reveries [CD]

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Elena Setién uses her multi octave vocal range and delicate arrangements to create a universe where dream worlds converge with reality. Setién's masterfully allegorical songs are both emotionally immediate and provoking. A musician's musician, Setién has drawn collaborators from far and wide, from her improvisational duo Little Red Suitcase to more recent collaborations with Steve Gunn, Mary Lattimore, and fellow Basque musicians Xabier Erkizia and Grande Days. For Moonlit Reveries, a hallucinatory promenade of mood and rhythm, Setién is joined by renowned drummer/percussionist Glenn Kotche of Wilco.Moonlit Reveries is an embrace of wonder, an ode to the alluring beauty, and glow of dream states. For Setién, dreams are to be appreciated. The compositions are speckled with otherworldly embellishments, from ghostly harpsichords to cavernous echoes to reverberating kalimba. Title track "Moonlit Reveries" revels in a playful mystique, Setién's words carried by the wind across the night's sky. Mothers" captures the hopeful embrace of parenthood, letting go- and that cycle of life, was written in the wake of Low's Mimi Parker's premature death. A mother and artist herself, Setién was deeply saddened by the loss while drawing strength from what Parker accomplished in her short time.1. Hard Heart2. Losing Control3. Surfacing4. Strange5. Asking6. Moonlit Reveries7. Peculiar8. Morning Song9. Coloured Lizards10. Mothers11. Pintado II