 Artist: Xela: mp3 download Genre(s): Electronic Ambient Xela's discography:  For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights Year: 2007 Tracks: 10  The Dead Sea Year: 2006 Tracks: 12 Xela is the inspiration of Manchester, England-based John Twells, the moniker under which he records atmospheric, eclecticist, and often somber electronic music. Twells' padre was a guitarist and he developed a love of music early on, playing champagne flute and saxophone as a youngster and moving on to guitar in his teens. After playing in versatile bands, Twells began making music on his own, finding more intake in electronic music than the metal, punk, and indie influences of his late work. Twells sent kO'd demos of his work, which caught the ear of Metamatics' Lee Norris, wHO asked him to put up a cut to a compiling and released Xela's 2003 debut mini-album For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights on the Neo Ouija label. Around that time, Twells began collaborating with Gabriel Morley, aka Logreybeam, as the duo Yasume. 2004 saw the release of Involved Wool, a appeal of love songs that likewise reintroduced guitars into Twells' music, on City Centre Offices. Two geezerhood by and by, The Dead Sea, a conception album around a ship attacked by zombies, arrived on Twells' have Type label (which likewise issued releases by Logreybeam and Khonnor). Influenced by prog, sea shanties, Italian horror soundtracks, and racket, the album also featured beautifully grim visuals by artist Matthew Woodson. That class, Yasume's homage to David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti's influence on Twells and Morley, Where We're from the Birds Sing a Pretty Song, was too released. |
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