{"id":19914,"date":"2023-05-16T18:58:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=19914"},"modified":"2023-05-16T18:58:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:58:22","slug":"italian-musician-and-author-elli-de-mon-releases-the-pagan-blues-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2023\/05\/16\/italian-musician-and-author-elli-de-mon-releases-the-pagan-blues-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian musician and author Elli\u00a0de Mon releases the Pagan Blues album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years on from the success of&nbsp;<em>Countin\u2019 The Blues<\/em>, which saw her lauded by the international blues and rock media, recording an exclusive session for BBC Radio 4\u2019s flagship magazine programme&nbsp;<em>Loose Ends<\/em>, Italian musician&nbsp;Elli&nbsp;de Mon returns with a new full-length album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hailing from the northeastern city of Vicenza, for more than a decade&nbsp;Elli\u2019s been thrilling blues audiences across Europe with her unique take on the form. To say she\u2019s a blues singer or blues guitarist is a considerable understatement: conservatoire-schooled, her oeuvre encompasses rezophonic guitar, drums, bells, voice and saturated sound \u2013 she is, in every sense, a real one woman band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strongly influenced by the primordial blues tradition (Bessie Smith, Fred Mc Dowell, Son House) crosshatched with primitive garage punk,&nbsp;Elli\u2019s sound is shaped into a lysergic journey through her soul. Sharing stages with the likes of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Reverend Beatman, Cedric Burnside and James Leg, she\u2019s released seven albums since 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A labour of love,\u00a0<em>Countin\u2019 The Blues<\/em>\u00a0was recorded to accompany her book\u00a0<em>Countin\u2019 The Blues: Indomitable Women<\/em>, celebrating the queens of the blues.\u00a0<em>Pagan Blues<\/em>, comprising eight original songs and a cover of Robert Petway\u2019s \u2018Catfish Blues\u2019, is something different&#8230; Pagan because it seeks to accommodate multiplicity, questions, insecurity, darkness. Pagan because it was born to provoke those that would cage the blues into a devotional, museum object; who claim to talk about real blues, about truth.\u00a0Elli\u00a0does not have the truth.\u00a0And she hopes she won&#8217;t ever get it, because that takes her to distant, even uncomfortable, places.\u00a0<em>Pagan Blues<\/em>\u00a0was born of this discomfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elli de Mon   Pagan Blues\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ZxBvefAk1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pre-order&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ellidemon.bandcamp.com\/album\/pagan-blues\">https:\/\/ellidemon.bandcamp.com\/album\/pagan-blues<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tracklist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.The Fall, 2. I Can See You, 3. Desert Song, 4. Catfish Blues, 5. Star, 6. Ticking, 7. Pagan Blues, 8. Sirens&#8217; Call,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9. Troubled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Praise for&nbsp;<em>Countin\u2019 The Blues<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cBrash, in your face and utterly compelling, you owe to yourself to hear this lady\u2026 4\/5\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Spiral Earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWhether reinvented and reworked or sticking close to the originals, de Mon manages to bring a new life to the songs on&nbsp;<\/em>Countin\u2019 The Blues<em>, one that will no doubt bring these classics to a whole new audience\u2026 4\/5\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Louderthanwar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cAnyone wishing to introduce themselves to the amazing&nbsp;Elli&nbsp;De Mon and the pioneering female blues singers of the 1920\u2019s should give this stunning album a listen.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;At The Barrier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cHoly Madam Mississippi, there are some absolute treasures to be found here!\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Dancing About Architecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ellidemon.onegirlband\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ellidemon.onegirlband\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elli_demon\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elli_demon\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years on from the success of&nbsp;Countin\u2019 The Blues, which saw her lauded by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[365,2938],"class_list":["post-19914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-alternative-rock","tag-elli-de-mon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19916,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914\/revisions\/19916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}