Artist description Elan's sound can best be described as a resurgance of the late 60's early 70's touring rock band. The music is reminiscent of bands such as "The James Gang (Joe Walsh)", "Santana", "Mountain"(West, Lang, Papallardi), "Cream" (Bruce, Baker, Clapton), "Blind Faith"(Winwood, Clapton), "Traffic"(Winwood, Capaldi), etc.

Music Style Rock Ballad/Experiential

Musical Influences Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Jethro Tull, Mountain, Cream, Traffic, Doors

Similar Artists Traffic, Cream, Mountain, Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Peter Murphy, Peter Gabriel, Jethro Tull, Vanilla Fudge, Doors, Grand Funk Railroad

Artist History Elan incarnated into its present form through many a metamorphis. First flailing along through the dank streets of 'Motor City' (Detroit) madness. Several bands later, and none the less worn from the experience, into the sunny San Diego alternative culture of the early 90's. In search of a refuge from the smog and infringing represion of her sister to the north (LA), we set out to find a mountain retreat in which to reclaim our 'musical child'. Santa Fe opened her arms to Elan extolling her 'Holy Faith' and artistic embellishments upon us. Here now is born the magic.

Group Members Elan/T.E.Mallow

Instruments Guitars, Keyboard, Drums, Percussion

Albums TestinG the WaterS

Press Reviews It's Lou Reed meets Neil Young meets Bowie in a strange musical combustion. The lyrics of this music is what first caught my attention. Very intelligent and at times, thought provoking. The songs have a quirkiness that makes them very interesting and contain an inspirational value that is very rare in a lot of music that I review. The songs are very moody and have a touch of sadness and purity to them. This is one of those CD's that I can just sit back an let play. Good thinking music. It has that slow groove that takes your mind on all of those adventures that you go on when in that dreamlike state. That's the kind of music that I love, and this is just that.- Michael Allison - THEGLOBALMUSE.COM

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Location Santa Fe, NM - USA

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