Inhabiting the space that lies somewhere in between electro-ambient/drone, shoegaze, and krautrock. Hamilton’s Electroluminescent has been creating warm and fuzzy soundscapes for over ten years. Weaving layers of melodic guitar, synthesizers and percussion into a mass of sound that is familiar and
inviting but is still just outside of an instantly definable space. With numerous releases on respected labels (Chat Blanc, Thisquietarmy, Black Mountain Music) most recently 2009′s vinyl and download only full-length ‘Measures’.
The project began in a bedroom in early 1998 and stayed hidden away through three self released full lengths and four years. An opening gig with Surface of Eceyon finally brought Electroluminescent from the bedroom to the stage. Since then shows alongside artists such as Silver Mt Zion, Sianspheric, Simply Saucer, Early Day Miners, Holy Fuck, Below the Sea, Woodhands, Toshack Highway, A Northern Chorus & Polmo Polpo… across Ontario and Quebec as well as two tours of Europe have earned Electroluminescent a reputation as more than a studio project, a dynamic live act reinventing recordings into “mesmerizing, 40-minute long epics that shift and change through rocking, rhythmic passages, to ambient explorations, to distorted feedback freak outs.”
