Countin’ The Blues
by ELLI DE MON

ELLI DE MON
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“Countin’ The Blues”
out on June 18^th 2021
via Area Pirata Rec 

Elli de Mon, for the best part of the past decade she’s been thrilling blues audiences across Europe with her unique take on the form. To say she’s a blues singer or blues guitarist is putting it waaay too simply: rezophonic guitar, drums, bells, voice and saturated sound – she is, in every sense, a real one woman band.
Strongly influenced by the primordial blues tradition (Bessie Smith, Fred Mc Dowell, Son House) crosshatched with primitive garage punk, Elli’s sound is shaped into a lysergic journey through her soul. Sharing stages with the likes of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Reverand Beatman and Cedric Burnside, she’s released six albums since 2014, most recently a split release with the wonderfully-named psych-blues trio Daily Thompson.
During her pregnancy Elli wrote a book about the women blues artists of the 20s. The book Countin’ The Blues: Indomitable Women was published in February 2020. Elli decided to record the songs that she wrote about in the book, in tribute to these great women, whose art has been forgotten by most.
Her first album for Area Pirata Records, Countin’ The Blues features ten songs: some, such as Elizabeth Cotten’s ‘Freight Train’ or Bessie Smith’s ‘Blue Spirit Blues’ might be considered standards.

“I am really glad about it because I played some songs of great women that history didn’t celebrate enough. I’m talking about Memphis Minnie, Elizabeth Cotten, Lottie Kimbrough and many others.”

But the album contains also some lost treasures, unearthed by Elli and brought back into the light of day.
Recorded at Lesder Studio, Treviso with engineer Tommaso Mantelli, Elli accompanied herself on guitar, lapsteel, organ, drums and sitar. She arranged the whole album in a new key, close to her personal punkish style. A modern Ma Rainey playing dirty rock‘n’roll!

“Countin’ The Blues”
ELLI DE MON
[June 18, 2021]
Genre:
blues, garage, psichedelic
Base:  Vicenza, Italy
Label / Booking / Press:
Area Pirata Rec

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