Eli Wolfe to perform at Canadian Music Week 2012!

We are very much looking forward to being part of Canadian Music Week 2012!
View Canadian Music Week promo video here

Eli Wolfe – Peats Ridge Festival 2011!

After completing a fun and successful ‘Speak Lovingly’ national tour through Oct/Nov/Dec in association with ‘The Line’,  Eli rounded out a very busy 2011 with a series of summer festivals and brought in 2012 with two concerts at the beautiful Peats Ridge Festival on new years eve. The festival is a vibrant offering of new music, great community events and workshops and all things relaxing in the magical surrounds of Glenworth Valley. You can checkout some of the great vibes at the festival website link here:        http://www.peatsridgefestival.com.au/gallery

 

Eli Wolfe as new musical ambassador for The Line – a campaign promoting respectful relationships

The Line is youth campaign aimed at promoting respectful relationships and reducing the incidence of violence in Australia.

“I am proud to support The Line,” says Eli of his appointment as one of The Line’s musical ambassadors. “Respect is the glue that holds people and society together. When it comes to relationships if you don’t respect yourself or your partner then that’s when things can fall apart.”

‘Speak Lovingly’ is a poignant and powerful song that perfectly captures what Eli is talking about. The song was inspired by a series of telephone calls from a friend who was going through a difficult time in her relationship, with her partner disrespecting her in many ways through verbal abuse behind closed doors.

“A few weeks later, the song spontaneously came to me; it’s a mixed dialogue between her and her ex-partner and a mediating third person who validates her viewpoint. “Being the friend with a lending ear can often help someone sort things out and put the situation into perspective,” says Eli.

Travelling more than 25,000 km and performing 80 shows across every state and territory last year on his 2010 ‘Community Australia Tour, the talented, left-handed guitarist found the song strongly resonated with people of all ages.

“It’s great to contribute positively to our cultural landscape and I’m glad ‘Speak Lovingly’, a song born from real experience, can play a role in this great Australian initiative andpromote the messages of empathy and respectful relationships.”Featured on his debut album, Eli experimented with ‘Speak Lovingly’ in the recording studio, adding foot organ bass, a washing machine and sink and a plastic wall strip to offer a unique, percussive sound under his sprightly guitar playing and smooth vocals.

“I had fun discovering alternative sound textures to present something a little quirky while still being an acoustic guitar song with something to say,” Eli commented.

The song ‘Speak Lovingly’ enjoyed 3 weeks running in the number 1 position on the National Australia community radio charts via AMRAPS  ’AirIt’, resonating strongly with its story and message as Eli took to the road for two months on his  National ‘Speak Lovingly’ tour through Oct/Nov/Dec 2011.

For more information about ‘The Line’ go to        http://www.theline.gov.au/

Journeys through Europe lead to Futurama

Hi there! How are things going in your world? A big hello to all and to the people that have joined the wolfemail since we left Australia in March this year.

I’ll keep it short as possible and fill you in on some further exciting news.

This wolfemail finds us back in a sunny Toronto, Canada, with a return tour. It was snowing here when we first arrived back in March!

When last I wrote, we were in  the ever vibrant LA with shows and I posted that video of some Venice Beach trekking. Since leaving US, the music has led us on another cultural journey through France and Germany.

With three weeks of shows in Paris, we stayed close to the ‘Place de la Nation’, living with two beautiful locals who showed us some amazing local treasures. Needless to say, my croissant rate peaked at seven per day and I was addicted to salmon baguettes from a local boulangerie. Plenty of energy to play and party between

The shows went great and and we met so many open and friendly people. Playing petanque (pit-onk) by the canals was another fun experience,  with hundreds of Parisians sitting along the water’s edge drinking wine with fromage, breads and cold meats in the lazy afternoon sun.

Packing the guitars we then drove from Paris across to the lush, green forests of Germany. I soon had the pleasure of joining an amazing US/Dutch artist touring Germany in support of her platinum-selling album. The tour took us in a big figure eight, starting near Heidelberg then to Munich, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin, playing in some amazing 500-seater venues. 

Dom and I had also met two loverly German guys in Montreal who loved my new album and organised another three shows in and around Leipzig. We stayed there with an amazing family who took us in and showed us around. The great vibes in Germany were also great to experience! Later we had return shows in beautiful, bustling Berlin. In all we spent a month in Germany.

Since arriving in Europe, our minds were expanding with new languages. I downloaded language applications for French and German as we knew that English wasn’t spoke much, and each day was like being in school. With the need to communicate in some way, I soon picked up on the cultural song and rhythm. For two months we didn’t hear or speak much English except between ourselves!!

Arriving back in Canada, we began another return tour up to a now sunny and green Quebec. Another vibrant place in the world! We head to Montreal this weekend for a music festival, then it’s back to Toronto for a show at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern. 

We then return to LA for another run of shows and to promote a song I wrote titled ‘Eggman’. The song will be screening on the cartoon epic, Futurama on 11 August in the US! You can see a quick video and check out the details at www.facebook.com/eliwolfe and join us there by clicking the LIKE button if you haven’t already. Aaaahhh… for the love of music and art.

Eggman is also now up on iTunes Australia and iTunes US.

If you want to read more about how the song came about, check on facebook/eliwolfe or see below.

We’re now also piecing a new tour back in Australia and will keep you posted.

Feel free to drop us a line back, it’s always great hearing your news too. Chat soon, and have a great week ahead!

Eli Wolfe

www.eliwolfe.com – the website has been updated if you want to take a look

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www.youtube.com/eliwolfe – for tour blogs and more

About Eggman:

The song Eggman first came to me as a painting. I awoke one day with my head was so full of information and thought that I felt it was going to explode! With a canvas on the floor, I promptly splashed down a blue base, which serves as the ether, and suspended in it a white cracking egg with a limping skeletal body.

Now relieved and pondering upon the ‘Eggman’, I relaxed while playing the guitar. A guitar riff formed, which is the angular rhythm of Eggman’s quirky stride. The words that followed the music were ladened with images and symbols that delve into the human psyche and an inner-desire for an expansion of consciousness. There was no inspired or creative relation to The Beatles song ‘I am the Walrus’, it was simply a subliminal image that birthed from how I was feeling at the time. Putting it all together with image and music, the final upbeat song moves along with a fun and delirious momentum. Enjoy!

Spacejunk Studio – Eli Wolfe works with the TimEbandit

Recording the colourful new album saw Eli Wolfe work with Tim Powles of Spacejunk Production House. A great studio with all you need, the end result led to an album rich in different sounds and could take the listener on a pleasant musical journey.

As Drum Media quoted : ‘Summer is all about taking life easy, and Eli Wolfe’s self-titled debut album provides the anthems’.

This sentiment ringing true as Eli, being on his mammoth 80 show and 8 month ‘Community Australia’ tour, would definitely have absorbed the colorful Australian landscape on route!

Co-produced alongside 2009 ARIA-nominated producer Tim Powles,
the album is based on Eli’s impressive timbered vocal melodies and captivating acoustic sound. As a creative challenge, traditional drums, bass and electric guitars were deliberately not used in the recording process.
“Instead we had fun discovering contextual sounds and playing with textures and rhythm from a washing machine, a marching drum and cement rendered walls, to cello and double bass” he said.

Below is a fun video of some of the session – enjoy

Below are some technical details about tSpacejunk Production House:

Spacejunk III is now an airconditioned three room set-up comprising a daylit control room, a conventional “live/dead” studio room, an ambient drum room (suits acoustic instruments and vocals) and further improvised spaces including isolated amp/ speaker cabinet, and “live” wooden upstairs space with vintage upright piano.

The heart of the recording system is an Apogee Symphony 64 card with audio via Apogee AD16X and DA16X, Lavry Blue AD and DA, and Audient Sumo AD. It utilises both Logic Pro and Protools software (003 or CoreAudio), with clock distribution courtesy of an Antelope Isochrone DA, and running on Apple MacPro and MacBook Pro computers, there is a Quad UAD DSP Card for extra plugin power. Audio is patchable to both a TOFT ATB16 in-line analogue 8 buss console (52 inputs avail) and an Audient Sumo Class A Bus mixer, with an eclectic collection of hardware devices both classic vintage, retro, modern, and rare, to further colour the sound at will.

Monitoring- GENELEC 1037B large-fill monitors, KRK V8 midfield and YAMAHA ms50 nearfields.

website: http://www.spacejunk.biz/

Venice Beach LA video blog

We are in California right now….our first time. We headed over for MusExpo LA which was a great experience and opportunity for ‘infultrator’ aussies like us. Its centered right in Hollywood and we are stoked to be soaking up as much as we can. We checked bands playing in the Viper Room, saw metal band, ‘Symphony X’ playing in the ‘House of Blues’, oh and since have made a quick blog video of Venice Beach…love it…here is a snippet..Ew

The 2011 tour begins and music for Greenhouse by Joost

Hi from Margaret River! Eight shows into this tour with Nannup Festival this coming week! I’ll be back dating some info blogs with deets about last year’s National ‘Community Australia’ Tour and get on a roll with current tour happenings. I played this year’s ‘Festival of the voice’ in Sydney’s The Rocks (Australia Day). The stage was set up at Campbells Cove where nearby a fine gentleman called Joost was busy preparing a real work of art. Here below is a quick video offering insight into building a living house made of straw bails and recyclable thangs – which is now up and running in The Rocks. Music from my song ‘Leave your light on’ features on the clip to add some chilled sonic vibes. Great to be part of the project! keepa smilin and chat soon… Ew X