Elephant House

London-based Sino-Greek psychedelic drone combo ELEPHANT HOUSE. Their music features digital drums and vocals from Shenggy Shen and melancholic synthesisers and guitars from Christos Fanaras. Coincidentally the duo are named after the cafe in Edinburgh that is the birth place of the Harry Potter series. Shenggy Shen is the former drummer with China's first all-female punk band Hang on the Box. She has since gone on to establish herself a noise artist, as a member of the avant-duo White (with Zhang Shou Wang from Carsick Cars). Christos Fanaras follows in the Greek lineage of ambient pioneers, like Vangelis and Iasos only with an emphasis on deep dark brooding soundscapes and space-age melancholia. He has recorded and released 7 solo CD albums on his own imprint Down Is Up sometimes under the moniker Jack Shirt. Alongside M.K. Hauser, Christos is one half of the project Masters both having previously played together in the band Agaskodo Teliverek. He also recently collaborated with Mark Wagner on his audio/visual drone project Chosen Frequencies. Christos also played bass and synth in Mothlite, drums in hypnagogic anti-band Temper Temper. He has shared the stage with musicians such as Alexander Tucker, Charles Hayward, Adam Bohman, Carla Bozulich, Alex Ward and Steve Noble and with bands such as Die Munch Machine, Grumbling Fur and Sunday Mourning. "Elephant House operate in inflections and implications; like scrapbooks detailing transcendent experiences, their music is rich in sensation and ambiguously light in comprehension, pulling together disparate accounts of inner awakening in a bid to identify the common thread between them." Jack Chuter (ATTN Magazine)