Ingrid Lukas: ELUMELOODIA

Ingrid Lukas - Elumeloodia

RON032, 2023

01. DIGNITY                             02:39

02. ANALOGUE CONNECTIONS   04:12

03. RAINSPELL                         03:35

04. BEGINNING                        06:26

05. PILL OLL’ HELLE                  03:01

06. MINU TÄNU                        03:33

07. STRONG, BOLD AND BRAVE 03:01

08. ELUMELOODIA                    04:37

09. FREE YOUR VOICE               03:02

10. SAY IT ALL OUT LOUD          02:15

 

Music composed by Ingrid Lukas, Patrik Zosso, Karoliina Saatpalu, Ephrem Lüchinger & Manu Rindlisbacher.

additional instruments by: Diandra Russo, saxophone. Karoliina Saatpalu, backing vocals. Pascal Bärtsch, backing vocals. David Schnee, viola. Reto Suhner, duduk

Lyrics by Ingrid Lukas, Thomas Pritchard & Karoliina Saatpalu

Album produced by Ingrid Lukas, Manu Rindlisbacher, Ephrem Lüchinger & Patrik Zosso

Executive producer: Nik Bärtsch

Mixed and Mastered by Patrik Zosso

‘Elumeloodia’ invites the listeners to explore their own life melody and identity. The ten songs join a female-voice-space with fluid beats and cleverly combine analogue and electronic sounds, patterns and lines. The music thus acquires a tender and at the same time indomitable female power. Ingrid Lukas concentrates on her flair for dynamic song developments and atmospheric moods. The songs and sound spaces are supported by electronic instruments and beats from her long-term musical partner, producer, sound inventor and drummer Patrick Zosso, and by the experienced Swiss pop, film and jazz musicians Manuel Rindlisbacher and Ephrem Lüchinger. The music beats urban grooves and at the same time breathes the vastness and laconic calm of a Nordic landscape. In teamwork with her musicians and some guest musicians Ingrid Lukas has clarified and sharpened her artistic idea and human attitude. The result is a mature statement created with a zest for life which also contains a dash of melancholy, evoked by deep life experiences. "Elumeloodia" is an album like a singing creature that shares its melodies with us. Since the beginning of her career, the Zurich-based Estonian-Swiss singer, pianist and composer has been creating her own sound, oscillating between jazz, folk and pop. A mixture of tradition and modernity, combined with lyrics addressing our attitude towards life. Her individual view opens up universal themes. In Lukas's musically multicolored cosmos everything is connected to everything else: her Nordic roots, given shape in Estonian folk songs, meet up with modern song forms and beat cultures merging into a spherical ambient-indie-pop. Ingrid consistently continues to develop her music; no album sounds like the other, but together they show a dramaturgical and emotional logic.