Elison

After 2o years of wishing, Iowan, Marissa Kephart set out to make music for the first time. Using the extra space allotted to her during lockdown she found the courage to finally pick up the guitar. She took her first demo 'Meet Me Halfway' to teacher, multi-instrumentalist and producer Scott Yoshimura (The Envy Corps, Canby) in the summer of 2021 and the two quickly understood their creative energies and influences aligned so they formed Elison.

Sculpting dreamy immersive synths, layered with airy smooth vocals, punctuated with thoughtful guitar flourishes and driving drum beats, elison has proven to find a home within the indie rock genre while flirting with dream pop, indie pop and shoegaze with ease.

The name comes from part of Marissa's maiden name and coincidentally means "division" or "separation" which felt serendipitous considering what the catalyst was to creating music during the pandemic.

Listeners report that Elison reminded them of these artists: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xMN52fM3P7Qkcb07GYLQU?si=4fb5aee336414ea0

The two are currently writing and recording singles to be released over the course of the rest of 2022. Their dream would be to be in a soundtrack to a film or maybe just release a full length at some point.