ATEPH ELIDJA RELEASES ULTIMATE DEPICTION OF LIFE VS DEATH

Ateph Elidja is a French producer that’s worked with prestigious artists such as Ghali, Snoop Dogg, Pharell and Niska. Now launching his very own project, Ateph pairs new and uncompromising track Burn October with a distressingly beautiful film short. Visually headed by the Wacho Brothers, this project went home with this years Young Director Awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

As the youngest member of a Morrocan family in the heart of provincial France, Ateph Elidja found his precocious love for music after discovering artists like Serge Gainsbourg and Björk. More traditionally electronic artists like Daft Punk, Nirvana, Alan Parker and The Chemical Brothers also played their part in Ateph’s early stimulus.

Burn October holds Ateph’s soundtrack to a gripping tale of a Father who’s lost his son in a house fire. Representing the confusion one faces in times of grief, the short can be watched back to front and still portrays the same story of anger, fire and complete disorientation. Like a phoenix from the ashes, Ateph wants to battle through the fire and reinvent himself musically. Mysterious and heavily emotive, Ateph aids tension until the sudden drop that reveals a loud and unsubtle emptiness. This expanse hints to the unfathomable loneliness a Father faces after the loss of a child. Burn October’s poignant end shows coordinates for the house that burns – a sign of hope for a place to start fresh again.

“Exactly one year ago, at the end of October, I spontaneously decided to burn away all those ‘winter is coming’’ kind of vibes and this track just came to me as a straight one-shot creation.” – ATEPH ELIDJA

Ateph’s debut single is a vertiginous sound both sublime and deranging in its ability to invade our own stories of mental conflict. As Ateph explores the artist he wants to be, he boldly brings us face to face with our most primal instincts and deepest impulses. Forcing us to stare death unwavering in its sophisticated and unsettling eye, through the medium of new singe Burn October.

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