Elizabete Balčus
NEO-PSYCHEDELIC / DREAM POP
Elizabete Balčus is a Latvian musician and performance artist who creates neo-psychedelic dream pop from surprising, collaged, genre juxtapositions that is simultaneously melodic and experimental. She works with a strong visual aesthetic that draws upon modern surrealism, contemporary fashion and geometric imagery. Elizabete attended Latvian Academy of Music in order to study classical and jazz flute, plus opera vocal in Rome’s Santa Cecilia Academy. Anything is permitted in her musical cosmos: looping flute and voice, clicking electro pop beats and playing vegetables as a synthesizer, leaving the listener in a blissed out trance like state, somewhere between the waking and sleeping.
Conarium (October 16th, 2016), Elizabete Balčus' dream pop delight of a debut album, was performed live with edible instruments, a prosthetic leg turned into a synth as she wore homemade costumes that Dali would likely have been proud to have stashed around his house. On forthcoming opus, Hotel Universe (September 16th, 2022 via Mothland), Balčus' reverb-y Björk-esque vocal, orchestral flute arrangements, and slew of synths and drum machines serve as the palette from which she draws her dreams.
Live performances engage the audience with a psychedelic and theatrical situation that is as befuddling as it is mesmerizing.
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Press
“The vibe is so transcendent in places you feel you are in motion listening to it, transported in a stupor through some faerie glade and awake before you have time to register what has happened”
“Informed by everything from Aphex Twin’s ‘Selected Ambient Works (85-92)’ to Greek mythology, the songwriter is continually sketching out her own vivid world.”
“While the likes of Björk, Efterklang and Braids are audible influences, Balčus is creating her own path in music that feels unique and has the potential to see her become a major international star”
“From just down the road in Riga and dealing in sparse freak electronics creating sparse and tripped out
soundscapes, Elizabete Balčus delivers her wonk digital with a perfect kooky dress code and stage presence”
“Cocteau Twins meets Björk. Great arrangement and gorgeous vocals”
Landmark Events
Shared stage with
Animal Collective
Cri
Nathy Peluso
Cosmo Sheldrake