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Samstag, Mai 28, 2022

Elephant Gym - Dreams

Elephant Gym - Dreams

The 12 songs that constitute "Dreams", the third full-length from the Kaohsiung trio Elephant Gym, explore the deep spacetime continuum that consciousness cannot capture. Beyond the trio’s staple instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drumset, "Dreams" blends in wind instruments, traditional drums, and Taiwanese narrative.
released May 11, 2022

please see individual track pages for full credits

執行製作 Executive Producer|邱建鈞 J-Jyun Ciou
歌詞翻譯 Lyrics Translation|廖柚文 Yuwen Liao

母帶後期處理工程師 Mastering Engineer|陳陸泰 A-Tai
母帶後期處理錄音室 Mastering Studio|原艾母帶工程錄音室 Mugwort Mastering

專輯裝幀設計 Album Design|吳建龍 FKWU / 畢展熒 Hitsu Pi @Blob Club
專輯封面陶藝作品 Album Cover Ceramic Art|曾建穎 Cheng

實體專輯代理發行實體代理發行 Physical Distribution|子皿有限公司 In Utero Ltd.
數位代理發行 Digital Distribution|派歌 Packer

日本經紀與發行 Japan Label & Management |WORDS Recordings
美國經紀人 USA Manager|嚴敏 Mia Min Yen
美國發行廠牌 USA Label |Topshelf Records

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/elephantgym/

Formed in 2012 in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, the experimental trio Elephant Gym interlace various threads of jazz, electronic, and classical into a singular patchwork of contemporary math- and post-rock. At once evoking the towering, boisterous essence of elephants, and the acrobatic, dexterous nature of a gymnast, Elephant Gym’s sound feeds off tension and unlikely contrasts.

Elephant Gym songs often find bassist KT Chang as the lead voice, her nimble and expressive playing style a signature imprint of the Elephant Gym sonic character. Sibling Tell Chang meshes deftly on guitar and occasionally keys, with Chia-Chin Tu’s elastic drumming as a malleable anchorpoint between his bandmates’ funk-and-jazz-infused chops.

The trio’s tenure has seen the release of a handful of EPs and three full lengths, Angle (2014), Underwater (2018), and Dreams (2022), as well as a number of international and local collaborations that span the spectrum of the arts, ranging from theater productions to wind orchestras to traditional percussion ensembles.

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Samstag, Oktober 19, 2019

Elephant Gym - Gaze at Blue

Elephant Gym - Gaze at Blue

Taiwanese trio Elephant Gym’s new one-off “Gaze at Blue” carefully synthesizes elements of jazz, ambient, and post-rock into a groove-replete freeform introspection. The interplay of its nimble, explorative guitar and bass bounces between unison and syncopation, coated with subtly glitched sample-clicks and the cool ambience of a droning synth. “Gaze at Blue” teases in and out of hints toward its enthralling climax, a drawn-out crescendo with no precise resolution, as if to evoke the illusory and ambiguous endpoints of freedom.
Elephant Gym - Gaze at Blue 【Official Music Video】

Elephant Gym is a bass driven, Math-Rock band from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Formed in 2012. The Band is composed of Tif on bass, Tell on guitar and Chia-Chin on drums. The music of Elephant Gym is known for clear and memorable bass line, emotional guitar riffs and melodic drumming. Most songs are instrumental. In 2013, Elephant Gym has started to invite singers to compose with them.

Tell and Tif are sibling. In their childhood, their mother had taught them classical music until their adolescence. Later on, they had a big crush on rock music, especially post – rock and math -rock. Tell met Tu in high school music club. After realizing they all like the same music genre, they decided to form a rock band.
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Samstag, August 17, 2019

Elephant Gym - Underwater

Elephant Gym - Underwater


Elephant Gym is a bass driven, Math-Rock band from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Formed in 2012. The Band is composed of Tif on bass, Tell on guitar and Chia-Chin on drums. The music of Elephant Gym is known for clear and memorable bass line, emotional guitar riffs and melodic drumming. Most songs are instrumental. In 2013, Elephant Gym has started to invite singers to compose with them.
Tell and Tif are sibling. In their childhood, their mother had taught them classical music until their adolescence. Later on, they had a big crush on rock music, especially post – rock and math -rock. Tell met Tu in high school music club. After realizing they all like the same music genre, they decided to form a rock band.
On Underwater, Elephant Gym's latest release and second full-length, there was no single composer overseeing the record. To the end of unlocking new sounds for themselves, each member took turns leading production and compositional roles during the creation of the album. The result is an expansive cohesion of diverse songs which flow in and out of one another like water. Vocal cameos by international collaborators provide another compelling dimension to the record, emboldening a group usually known for their instrumental compositions.
The band explains that "'Underwater' is an idea about a kind of private, mysterious space." It's a place where one may go to ponder or concentrate, to clear one's head, or to just blow off some steam in solitude. So, too, is Underwater fundamentally about immersion: immersion in the chaos of feeling, living in the throes of being human-sized in the infinite expanse of existence. Elephant Gym deftly weaves this universal concept into their signature sound without ever pulling you out of your personal space, leaving you to yourself underwater.
released November 14, 2018

Album Producer: Elephant Gym
Executive Producer: J-Jyun Ciou
Mastering: Brian Elgin [Sentient Sound Labs]

Album Design [InFormat Design Curating]
Art director: Pang Wang
Designer: Tzou Yun-Da

Elephant Gym is
Guitar: Tell Chang
Bass: KT Chang
Drums: Chia-Chin Tu
https://www.facebook.com/elephantgym/
https://elephant-gym.bandcamp.com/

Freitag, Dezember 14, 2018

Elephant Gym - Underwater

Elephant Gym - Underwater


ElephantGym - Quilt - Official Music Video


Any purchase includes four additional bonus tracks not available for streaming.
Elephant Gym builds worlds through a bass-driven, jazz-and-funk-inflected writing style that teems with agile, articulate excitement. While commonly associated with the sub-genre of math-rock, Elephant Gym employs their own unique technical candor, with rhythms and melodies that never cross the line into uncomfortable angularity.
Photo from: https://www.facebook.com/elephantgym/
On Underwater, Elephant Gym's latest release and second full-length, there was no single composer overseeing the record. To the end of unlocking new sounds for themselves, each member took turns leading production and compositional roles during the creation of the album. The result is an expansive cohesion of diverse songs which flow in and out of one another like water. Vocal cameos by international collaborators provide another compelling dimension to the record, emboldening a group usually known for their instrumental compositions.
The band explains that "'Underwater' is an idea about a kind of private, mysterious space." It's a place where one may go to ponder or concentrate, to clear one's head, or to just blow off some steam in solitude. So, too, is Underwater fundamentally about immersion: immersion in the chaos of feeling, living in the throes of being human-sized in the infinite expanse of existence. Elephant Gym deftly weaves this universal concept into their signature sound without ever pulling you out of your personal space, leaving you to yourself underwater.
credits
released November 14, 2018

Album Producer: Elephant Gym
Executive Producer: J-Jyun Ciou
Mastering: Brian Elgin [Sentient Sound Labs]

Album Design [InFormat Design Curating]
Art director: Pang Wang
Designer: Tzou Yun-Da

Elephant Gym is
Guitar: Tell Chang
Bass: KT Chang
Drums: Chia-Chin T