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Liz Elensky

About Me


Liz Elensky's Sunkissed Mix by emanative
Liz Elensky's Sunkissed Mix
Mango Margarita - Monday Michiru
Let The Sun Shine In - Sons And Daughters Of Lite
The Third Eye (Emanative Instrumental Edit) - Roy Ayers
Skyy, Can You Feel Me - Raphael Saadiq
Greatdayndamornin' - D'Angelo
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell
Aldeia De Ogum (Live at Blue Note Osaka) - Monday Michiru
Chick Corea - Friends
Fertile Ground - Colours Of The Night
Little Sunflower - Freddie Hubbard feat' Al Jarreau

I've had the pleasure to record with London Symphony Orchestra and various projects and artists including the legendary Isaac Hayes & Doug E. Fresh, Stratospheric (remixes by Viper Squad/Venom and United Future Organisation), Positive Flow, Mr Gone, Heidi Vogel, Emanative, etc. (I am particularly proud to have done the SHAFT theme live with Isaac Hayes...pure fun!)
Current release: Emanative's When On Earth; then a few tracks with others in the pipeline ready to be completed very, very soon :-)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 16/10/2005
Band Members:

Jazz recording:
Barry Green (piano)
Dave Whitford (double bass)
Matt Home (drums)
Otherwise working with various musicians and
producers for various purposes and projects
Influences: Minnie Ripperton, Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, Sarah Vaughan, Roberta Flack, Prince, Weather Report, Ella Fitzgerald, The Parliament, The Roots, Sly and the Family Stone, Monday Michiru, Emanative, Quincy Jones, Wendy & Lisa, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, 4 Hero, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, Gil Scott-Heron, D'Angelo, Joyce, Me'Shell, Sade, the old-school hip hop like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Jungle Brothers; the good ol' Acid Jazz times and all bands within it, then of course all the great jazzers! Chick, Billie, Miles, Dizzie, Toots, Herbie, Carmen, Jimmy etc. Bob Marley, Barbara Streisand, The Commodores, BeeGees, Swedish folk songs. OH OF COURSE - my absolute heroine Joni Mitchell!!! How could I forget!? Her lyrics are amazing. Like little movies within just a few minutes. People, books, films, ideas and discussions...

Cheesy disco/funk, P-funk and the movie theme from HAIR...

Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, Puccini etc. Amazing talents that live through the ages and STILL create such an emotional impact.

Sounds Like: Hmmm...
Record Label: futuristica
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

When On Earth - Marc Rapson remix on Gilles Peterson

Check this before it goes off the BBC iPlayer. Mr. Peterson put When On Earth - the Marc Rapson remix - as the second track on this weeks show and it was beautifully sandwiched between two other great...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:48:00 GMT

Kurt Wallander....

I don't have a working TV aerial so I don't watch much TV...but I occassionally watch some on BBC's iplayer and recently a friend told me about BBC's Wallander with Kenneth Branagh. The fact that it w...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:04:00 GMT

Feel good music

This used to be my total feel good music and it still is (I do realise that I am a gal of a certain generation!)Beastie Boys - So Whatcha WantPublic Enemy - 911 is a joke and Fight the power!Hair - Aq...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:45:00 GMT

Recording for forthcoming Emanative album "Space"

I've recently recorded two tracks for Emanative (my other half's project)One of which was written mainly by Jessica Lauren and is an absolutely gorgeous track (which reminds us of Rotary Connection wi...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:51:00 GMT

This is how ABC should be...


Posted by on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:10:00 GMT