She knew from the outset that she wanted Dream War to land as a fully-formed, seamlessly cohesive, movie-score-like, symphonic experience. Her passion was to create an immersive, transformative experience for her audience something that she and they could get lost in. A talented visual artist as well, Ella MineвЂ™s musical aspirations were always more holistic and expansive than writing and recording collections of songs. These years of training would see EllaвЂ™s sharp intuition augmented with an expansive musical vocabulary, allowing her own idiosyncratic voice to emerge and flourish. The cumulative effect is an organic confluence of the personal and the archetypal.Д®llaвЂ™s musical instincts were honed under the formal discipline of VanderbiltвЂ™s Blair School of Music for six years, where she studied classical piano performance, followed by a university degree in music. Even within a single song, seas of meticulously layered electric guitars will be followed by shimmers of sunlight on water cast by picks against acoustic strings, harmony quickly overtaken by fierce chromaticism, rushing walls of sound cut short by vulnerable moments of intimacy between her solo vocal and piano, and even momentary appearances of bagpipe and cello, which lend an air of epic fantasy to a far-reaching tale. SheвЂ™s unafraid to traverse great artistic distances in small spaces. Her 2020 debut record, a concept album titled Dream War, weaves a surreal and otherworldly tapestry of poetic melodies and storytelling, sifting the ruins of devastating personal experience for shimmering gems of hope.Д®llaвЂ™s distinctive voice is far-reaching and impartial to genre, incorporating a mastery of classical piano with a sonic palette characteristic of progressive rock. My hope for you as a listener is that youвЂ™ll walk with me through the wreckage of your own dark experiences, focusing on the source of your courage and keeping your eyes open wide to the burning light of the fire you tend.вЂќДemonstrating a rare combination of musical fluency and lyrical vulnerability, Ella Mine divines and names depths of the human experience that often go unnamed, creating a hospitable space where the listener might untangle the mystery of their own emotions. ItвЂ™s a search for evidences of a rooted and unshakeable beauty buried there.

DonвЂ™t be afraid.вЂ™ Dream War is a journey through the terror-filled landscapes of devastating human experiences.

Beautiful and terrible things will happen. вЂњNovelist Frederick Buechner wrote вЂHere is the world.

This war of mine music