Aksyn Elek

Aksyn Elek is the solo musical project and stage name of Boris Briozzo (born 25 January 1991), electronic music composer and producer based in Genoa, active since 2008. He is primarily known as a progressive breaks act, although he is referred to as "a musical sponge, soaking up the sounds and styles of the world’s greatest classical musicians, while merging the futuristic worlds of electronica, trip-hop, house, trance, techno, and ambient". Aksyn Elek composed 2 studio albums and a four movements Electronic Piano Concerto, collaborated on the composition of soundtracks for short films and realized the emblematic music video ID39. He is now aiming at working in the videogames and film industry, as a soundtrack composer.
History
Aksyn Elek digitally released his debut album, Embrace the Darkness, when he was still a teenager, yet already fond of what would become his greatest hobby. It features electro and ambient sounds, accompanied by psychedelic and cinematic nuances, for a total of 13 tracks. The mood is mostly melancholic, sometimes marked by the disarming notes of a delicate guitar, nevertheless it's not rare to encounter a certain anger and strenght throughout the release. Later on, Aksyn will devote himself to the composition of his "Synthetic Piano Concerto", featuring - according to his own words - "1 big orchestra with no instruments, no performers, no conductor". This opera consists of 4 movements (Toxins, Nihil Est, Mutagenesis and Finale) and, at the moment, is accessible only through Youtube. It can be considered as a huge work of meticulous programming (as well as of notation, of course), directed to recreating a realistic and emulated orchestral enviroment, through the sole employment of virtual instruments and digital audio techniques. During summer 2011, Boris and a team of actors and expert traceurs, along with the cameraman Carlo Poggi, will reach the heights of Gouta (Liguria) so as to start the filming of Aksyn Elek's avantgarde music video ID39. The main themes of ID39 are blind fatalism, destiny's adversity and inevitability, social alienation, relentless psychological pain and psychedelia; some would also catch a glimpse of denunciation of the system, with all its subtle ways of controlling people's minds and behaviours. It won't take much for the Italian composer to come to found his own little record label, Blue Helix Records, and release his second studio album, , inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel "Demons". This time, the sound's much more mature and progressive, the album has got a more organic and solid structure and contains some really interesting and captivating tracks, enough to be considered as "a major achievement in the world of trip-hop, ambient, dance, electro-pop, and techno music". KT collects aggressive remixes of 2 tracks from the previous album, "The Cure" and "Embrace the Darkness", along with 12 other tracks. Particular mention deserve We Will Resist, Kirillov's Theory, Fade Away, Stavrogin, Autopoiesis, Rack My Ghost, For the Future and Between Life and Death, which all earned considerable critical acclaim for their outstanding symphonic texture and cinematic onslaught, as well as for the "combination of varied electronic adornments and different rhythms, which makes the album stand-out from the crowd".
Discography
Albums
* Embrace the Darkness (Sugo Music) - September 2010
* Kirillov's Theory (Blue Helix Records) - February 2012
Music videos
* ID39 - August 2011

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