Greetings!

Welcome to the site of El Duende. We are a 4-6 piece band, depending on the availability of the pieces, and the moon cycles, playing in and around Sydney Australia. Our first album "Overcome", was released in September 2005.

We are currently making its successor, which will be produced by Genevieve Maynard and feature guest artists Peter Hollo(Cellist from Fourplay), Jason Morphett(Saxophone great, who has played with everyone from Louis Tillet to X to every interesting jazz band you can think of) and Glad Read (Trombone, Midnight Oil, Red Ochre).

You can buy Overcome at our gigs or at all discerning record stores.

You can also buy it in virtual form on the Altnet site, or buy both CD and download if you are feeling mad! If you go to the Altnet site (need Internet Explorer for this), you will be able to listen to 30 second samples of each song, purchase the whole album for $9.99, or 99c a track. You can then burn them to CD, play them on your computer, whatever you want.

The album was recorded at Damien Gerard Studios with overdubs at Daniel's home studio, and mixed back at Damien Gerard. Big praise to Russell Pilling, who has done a sterling job recording and mixing it.

If you want to be on our gig advisory email service, send us an email with subscribe in the subject.

Also meanwhile, feel free to sample some of our music, via the mp3 of the day, where you will find a different mp3 each day! These will be demo versions, oddities, out-takes and unreleased items from the vault, complete with lyrics and commentary.