I really enjoy the mood and style that Elya delivers with her album "When I Met You...". Her tracks contain beautiful chord progressions and arrangements which avoid the typical formula most music suppresses itself to. Elya delivers suspense, romance, anger, adventure, compassion - all in a severly convincing way to the listener. The structure and tones in her music proves that Elya is a very advanced performer and composer, both technically and emotionally. Her songs have vocal lines that easily stay in your mind for a long time. "When I Met You..." was so emjoyable that I bought additional copies for friends and family, so they could be in on the magic too. Personally, my favorite tracks are the first two, but the album as a whole is definitely worth a long-term residence in your CD player. I look forward to checking out future releases by Elya.
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Elya's song "Complications" projects a feel not witnessed since the days of Eartha Kitt. The music and lyrics are superb - Elya and Michael are a great production team. How refreshing to hear real musicians and lyricists entering the commercial music scene once again! We enjoy this CD greatly and will be on the lookout for her next album.
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I'm used to listen music with my heart and not with my ears (I think it's the only real way), and I have to say that your music went straight there, delicately but with force.
There's a lot of passion, your songs and your voice transmit that.
Told that, I can say that your music often surprised me: sounds like a strange but well balanced mixture of different things - jazz, blues (meaning that blues is not necessarily in music, but in your soul that cries and laugh), cabaret and others.
Some songs (little lies is my favorite in this sense) made my mind go to the famous Brecht-Weill songs (sure I'm not the first to tell you so), especially the ones sang by Milva and Ute Lemper; again, not just a musical resemblance, a sentimental one.
There are such intense feelings in your music, I keep thinking about how a live recording could sound.
Can't wait to hear some more music from you, it's so soul touching.
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This performance has a live quality. 
> The litle surprices keep the music freh and interesting. 
> Singing with a Russian accent works very well. Using some Russian folk 
> (Little Lies) and mentioning Vodka in the lyrics (It Does''t really matter) 
> underline this. It makes the album sound exotic instead of being an album by 
> a non native speaker.
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