a blue flower, by EDN

a blue flower

by EDN

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1.	a mirror 04:26	buy track
2.	(blue!) flor 03:30	buy track
3.	ummmm 03:06	buy track
4.	mess 1 03:57	buy track
5.	2 bored angels 03:23	buy track
6.	slo ft. grumpy gwen 01:07	buy track
7.	mirror fuck 03:33	buy track

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ONO Records is proud to present a long awaited project from EDN, the recording project of Elena Nees. Hailing from Adelaide (Kaurna), Elena has crafted her sound in the form of sweet bedroom folk and pop, releasing a number of tender self-titled EPs since 2020, Here, the EDN moniker takes these folk pop sensibilities and filters them through a love for electronic hardware production and music. Recorded over a two year period and across Adelaide (Kaurna Country), Balgo (Kukatja Country) and Perth (Boorloo), EDN presents a seven track EP of glitched out IDM, effervescent pop and chopped up breakbeat experiments all whilst maintaining her sublime songwriting sensibilities.

The record begins with the end-of-the-night dancefloor ballad ‘A Mirror’. Jittering and agitated drum programming makes way for EDN’s feather-weight vocals, cleverly manipulated over bubbling synths as the track melts into a bonafide braindance-pop anthem. ‘(Blue!) Flor’ keeps the tempo rising, breaking out into a funked drum machine jam allowing pearlescent pads to intermittently wash over. The thumping ‘Ummmm’ continues the jam ending the first side with an urgent techno-not-techno freak out.

Side two opens with the crystalline fourth world ambience of ‘Mess 1’ before EDN’s angelic antipodean twang takes the spotlight again on the gorgeous and introspective ‘2 Bored Angels’. Interluding briefly with the trip-hop induced breakbeat experiments of ‘Slo’, ‘Mirror Fuck’ bookends the record perfectly with glistening keys and EDN’s soulful vocals singing of longing and desire. An excellent closer.

EDN gives us a triumphant and utterly unique record that unveils itself more and more with each listen and highlights her immense and diverse talent. One we are proud to include in the ONO catalogue!

“The songs on this record are a kind of patchwork across a range of times and places (both emotional and physical) spent in the past two years. As someone who has no real formula or consistent approach to making songs, I’ve moved between a few different styles of song-making; from those built primarily from a moment recorded in a jam like “Ummmm”, to little collaborative conversations like “Slo”, to more produced pop-y tracks such as “A Mirror”. I’m surprised and glad how they fit together now as if they’re meant to be that way. I definitely went through a range of feelings toward them all individually and turned over the desire to make the record abit more friendly or easily digestible, only to find it was actually pretty gentle on the belly after all. Lots of gratitude to ONO for giving trust to the process and a home to its end result.” - Elena

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released February 9, 2024

Written & Produced by Elena Nees
Artwork by Mathieu Larone & Grace Otto
Mastering by Marco Pellegrino

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a blue flower

Feb 2024
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Apr 2022
ONO001

Dec 2021

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