Elëgida

I found myself digging into old stuff that I've made in the past and so I got an idea of finally writing a proper biography for this page.

Elëgida was a Finnish electronic music project, having started first with a name 'Eerick' around 2003 (other names were 'Blaze', 'Cirrus973' until finally settling with Elëgida). Initially I focused pretty much on making electronica and dance music, later on I had a period where house was the thing for me.

As I became aware of the great art movement surrealism around early 2008, and visual artwork created by Salvador Dalí, I noticed I would actually draw influences from them into my music making, and so my experimental era came about. In late 2009 I bought my second guitar (I had no real interest in the instrument the first time I got one in 2006) and towards the end of the project I would incorporate some pop/rock sounds.

As I got a genuine interest in metal music, I stopped making electronic music for good; not deliberately, but it's just that my music taste is nothing like it used to be. I am however open to new ideas, and sometimes experimenting with avantgardist metal music inevitably, to me, means using some electronic sounds also. In any case, however different my tastes are today, I have great respect for people such as a profound DJ and audio engineer Jouni 'Jonkka' Aikala for once introducing me the great art of composing. This project was a big part of my life, and will remain in the ether and the web for years to come.

- Crescendo

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