With band members in South Africa, England and Japan, Ellende is truly an international group. In non-Covid times, they work together when travelling, but each band member recorded in their home studio for this new release and somehow put it together. The three members have mainly electronic machines to work with, such as a Casio VL-tone, Eurorack, Arp Solina, Wurlitzer, Juno 6, Rhodes MKI and MkII, Roland MKS20, mellotron and a piano. You'd think that 'St Tropez' is a release with some sunny, happy-clappy music, dancing poolside and sipping cocktails, but that is not the case. It is all hazy, fuzzy and melancholic.