“One-woman band from Vicenza — rezophonic guitar, drums, and voice channelling Bessie Smith through primitive garage punk.”
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Curatorial notes
Elli de Mon is a one-woman band from Vicenza, in the northeastern corner of Italy, and her instrument setup alone tells you something about the commitment: rezophonic guitar, lap steel, sitar, dilruba, organ, and drums, played live and alone. She has been refining this practice since 2014, across six albums on a series of small Italian labels, and the result is something that resists easy genre...
