Emaline Delapaix

In winter 2010 Australian Singer Songwriter Emaline Delapaix moved to a caravan in rural North Eastern Germany, close to the Polish border with her Canadian cat Reece to write songs, escape city life and to find herself. In April 2011 she met Experimental Jazz Guitarist Karsten Lipp in Berlin and their musical collaboration began, slowly transforming from clever singer songwriter music to something more sophisticated and hard to catagorize; with elements of folk, jazz, gentle electronics...

Between Breeding Seasons was exclusively recorded in Lipp's Berlin apartment except for 'Swallow', a charmingly lo-fi track Emaline recorded during her last week in her Mecklenburg Vorpommern caravan before moving to Berlin with an old laptop and an sm-58. Not fast movers, Lipp and Delapaix took their time recording the EP, spending over half a year from late 2011 spilling into early Spring 2012, trying out different techniques, rooms and mics, only recording when inspired. The result is a beautiful and haunting EP of dark and dreamy ballads about loneliness, bravery, longing and love gone wrong with voice, lapsteel, acoustic and electric guitars, keys, muted-crunching-drum-beats and cello layers that would fit easily into a Von Trier or Lynch film.