RiseLove
Eleni Era - Rise Love
Rise Love
is a collection of songs that Eleni Era has long kept close. It is a confessional album - at times confronting bleak situations of despair, facing loneliness and the passage of time as well as the necessity to love one’s self - but also sees the singer-songwriter recounting childhood adventures and the innocent songwriting sessions she shared with her siblings. It is filled with tales of a young woman’s coming of age, faced with the challenges of change. Eleni Era’s devotion to these experiences and their indivisibility from her identity are tangible throughout. Her delivery of silky-smooth vocals which extend from full-bodied to delicate, crystalline runs, are driven by a background of lush piano chord sequences, trance-like and mellow beats, and folk melodies. “A lot of these songs have been written during sleepless nights. I find salvation in heading to the piano, humming through a yet unborn melody at 3 am, waiting for the exact words to come out so that I can listen to what they have to say. It helps me understand myself and I heal in the process. This process is also what the album is about.”
In Rise Love, Eleni Era’s songs surge together, inviting listeners to contemplate on their own experiences of facing life's challenges and hardships when it seems that there is no one else to share them with, and allowing oneself to be vulnerable enough to let others into their life. Eleni Era sings in both English and her native Greek and brings forth equal grace and conviction. The songs showcase her on vocals, piano, and synths. Long-time friends and fellow artists, Lefteris Moumtzis (Freedom Candlemaker) and Andreas Trachonitis are on production duties, and Moumtzis is also on most of the accompaniment (electric guitars, bass and drums).
Rise Love Tracklist:
1. Fly
2. Big Star
3. How
4. Rise Love
5. No One's Near
7. Rain
8. Wondering
9. Beautiful Moon
10. Nocturne