<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/the_garden_MED.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="150" />Hidden Shoal Recordings has announced the release of the luscious new single by Rome-based composer <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/elisa-luu/">Elisa Luu</a>.

The first song to be released from forthcoming debut album <em>Chromatic Sigh</em>, ‘<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=114">The Garden</a>’ is a place to luxuriate. Its humid atmosphere of synths and glistening textures drifts effortlessly before being carried aloft by crisp drum breaks. After its five-minute run time, the listener is gently returned to terra firma, conscious of having visited somewhere unique and beautiful.

Though digitally crafted, Elisa Luu’s music is warm, inviting and uniquely human, betraying a vulnerability and sensitivity that is rarely found in the male-dominated sphere of electronica. With its sighing, lilting qualities, Elisa Luu’s music reawakens a sense of childlike wonder and adventure with every sprawling and sparkling track.

Elisa Luu (Elisabetta Luciani) is a Rome-based composer, who began her musical career as a jazz/fusion saxophone player. Elisa has been involved in a number of musical projects over the years, including fusion quartet Prodotti Speciali and Short’s Monday Night Jazz Orchestra. She has also participated in Berklee Jazz clinics, where she received special mention as an alto sax player. In 2007 Elisa began to compose electronic music using flute, saxophone and guitar as sound sources. In 2008, UK net label <a href="http://www.phantomchannel.co.uk/" target="_blank">Phantom Channel</a> released her debut EP <em>Floating Sounds</em>, which garnered glowing online reviews.

<em>“There is a balance of songness and sound, of an experimentalist’s emphasis on texture and a composer’s on tone, that makes Elisa Luu’s Floating Sounds (Phantom Channel) one of the most immediately awarding and arresting netlabel releases of the year thus far.”</em><strong><em> </em>– Disquiet on Floating Sounds</strong>

‘The Garden’ is available for <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=114">free download</a> from the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/">Hidden Shoal Store</a> until the release of Elisa Luu’s debut album <em>Chromatic Sigh</em> on 10th September. Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Elisa_Luu_Single.pdf">here</a>.

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/Elisa_Luu/Chromatic_Sigh/The_Garden.mp3">Elisa Luu - The Garden</a>  <em>Elisa Luu - The Garden </em>