Elf Traps

Live drums and synthesizers with beat-driven electronica and spiritual jazz - a new project from Rob Turner (formerly GoGo Penguin) and Liviu Gheorghe.

Emerging from Manchester's underground scene, Elf Traps is a new project in which beat-driven electronica meets spiritual jazz and psychedelic, other-worldly timbres.

On stage, live drums and synthesizers merge with drum machines, laptops, samplers, cut-up vocal snippets and custom robotic percussion - creating a hypnotic exchange of rhythm, texture and improvisation. The music winds and evolves in real time, moving from meditative ambient passages to explosive, adrenaline-fueled rhythmic climaxes. No two performances are the same.

The project of Mercury Prize nominee Rob Turner (Mammal Hands, formerly GoGo Penguin) and Liviu Gheorghe (formerly Matthew Halsall / Gondwana), Elf Traps channels the rhythmic chaos of Squarepusher, the textural electronic landscapes of Four Tet and Floating Points, and the spiritual openness of Pharoah Sanders - creating music that is raw, vibrant and full of emotional depth.