Dancing Alone – Deluxe Edition – Available at our Bandcamp page now!

With its modern classical influences, and it’s extremely sensitively performed, and delicately nuanced tones, this absolutely beautiful new album from composer/vocalist Elska (Laura Boland) is a distinctly pleasant departure from some of our more recent, darker releases. Her softly subdued and breathy vocalizations lend themselves perfectly to the mysterious and elegiac eleven melodies that comprise the album. Throughout this record she takes us on a nostalgic and at times ethereal voyage through a world where the beauty walks hand in hand with an at times somewhat disjointed and yet seemingly completely natural strangeness. With occasional pseudo liturgical impressions, and a wonderful use of field recordings, strings, chimes and other instrumentation, she achieves a real and grandiose grasp on what it means to live, love and breathe through ones music.

elska is the narrator of cinematic lullabies and the creation of Composer Laura Boland. She represents love, imagination, resilience & awareness.

“My vignettes are comprised of moments and memories that explore the human condition and our spiritual migrations in the context of our ever-changing environment.”

TRS112 comes in a limited physical edition of just 50 copies. For this album we have strayed a bit from our usual distressed design aesthetic, and come up with what we feel is a more appropriately stark and “clean” package. For the handmade jackets, we used sheets of 6-ply, 25” x 28” Mat board, and hand cut, creased and folded it into a multi dimensional pocketed sleeve. Mounted to the front, and partially obscured by a rounded front flap, is an enlarged and archival printed, 12” square, double exposure image of the artist herself. For this project Boland created 50 unique “Polaroid stories”: 50 prints accompanied by 50 short poetic text. Each print is attached by corner mounts to the back of the jacket, with each text hand typed on a vintage cursive typewriter. Below this is a unique vintage, “fingerprint card”. Inside the jacket is an original 9”x11”analogue collage, with materials sourced from two books: a book of “A-C Ohm Calculation Charts”, and a book about teaching children modern dance. The two seemed to go hand in hand in this respect! The artists name and album title are hand stamped on the front, and there is an included hand-printed credit sheet as well, and all copies are hand numbered on the back. The entire package then comes wrapped with a sewn, vintage, lace obi strip! The full length, clear, lathe cut record, is made as usual by Bladud Flies!, in Wales, UK.

Dancing Alone will be available for purchase at our Bandcamp page on July 5th, and will ship the second week July. It is also of course available digitally as well.

More Info about the deluxe packaging and Sound Clips!