Xanima is the artrock act by Pelle Handen and Jade Ell

Imagine Evanescence mixed with Enigma goes Kate Bush. X Anima is new original music, with beautiful melodies, perfect grooves and excellent sound design by Pelle Händén and Jade Ell.

It's all a creative combination of pop, rock andelectronica with elements of symphonic mixes. It's dark, light, fantasy, heaven and hell. Their debut album is entitled Inside Warrior (Lion Music (Finland) LMC263, 2009).

Prolific artist Jade Ell's vocals on this album are indeed reminscent of Kate Bush. Inside Warrior has not only new and innovative music but also keenly individual and inspired songs. The lyrics tell stories of mysteries in modern times, such as the mind of a serial killer, the phenomenon of poltergeist, Jonestown, the power of the spirit and mind and the life after death. By uniting a voice which is ranging from an airy sound to rocky--sometimes almost operatic--combined with electronic synthesizers, a mean electric guitar with heavy riffs and ethnic sounds. Xanima has created music, which in their own classification could be called art rock/electronic.X Anima started as a project in February 2007.

At first it was created in cyberspace, but later on it turned into a live band with excellent musicians turning the story of X Anima live. Jade Ell (vocals and piano) is a true live artist, having performed at many different venues in Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Holland and the United States. She is both her own artist as well as an established songwriter, and her songs have been recorded by many international artists. Last year, she had songs reaching 1 in Mexico, Brazil and the USA with the Mexican pop act RBD.

Return to Musical Discoveries later this year for a planned feature on the vocalist's solo work.Pelle Händén (keyboards and synthesizers) started out in the 80s making several solo albums and scores in his solo project Astral Dance. He has also produced and worked with such artists as Björn J:son Lindh amongst others. Together with the female vocalist Magoria, he made the album The Divine Child which sold 80,000 copies in Russia.