Howling Owl Records's first foray into the world of the Cube is a very special one indeed, with Ela Orleans playing her first Bristol show. Orleans is a Polish musician now based in Glasgow. She was a member of pop collagists Hassle Hound, has played with various luminaries of the New York experimental and noise scenes and is a composer for the screen. Over the course of Orleans’s music career, her tagline and brief description for her music has always been “movies for ears”. In the work Orleans pushes her pastoral pop roots into more cinematic terrain, experimenting with carefully considered sound art segments, complex electronic textures and orchestral flourishes. She has a number of solo recordings and numerous collaborative releases on labels such as Parental Guidance, La Station Radar, Night People, All Saints Records, Warp, Clan Destine Records, Twisted Nerve and Staubgold. She utilises instruments, electronics and her softly spun vocal to make some of the finest echo-drenched ’60s chamber pop around.

Ela’s ability to flip her sound into more panoramic symphonic expanses is deeply uncanny and the perfect counterbalance for her breezy, baroque-flavoured moments. During her career she has released High Moon Low Sun (CD, 2008), Lost (LP, 2009), Mars Is Heaven (LP, 2011), NEO PI-R (LP, 2011) and Tumult in Clouds (2LP, 2012). She also released a split LP, Double Feature, with Dirty Beaches (Night People and La Station Radar) as well as contributed to the four-way split LP Statement with Slim Twig, Dirty Beaches and US Girls. She has played with Dirty Beaches, Lee Ranaldo, Magik Markers, Julia Holter, Space Lady, Lower Dens, Vaselines, the Pastels, Baby Dee, Quintron, the KVB, Le Volume Courbe, Remember Remember, Jackie-O Motherfucker, the Pheromoans, and many others.

Support comes from Tara Clerkin and Wenonoah: two more gems from the chamber pot, whose character-drenched songs will captivate.