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Imagine the young Erykah Badu making a baby with Björk, falling into a pot where HipHop, Soul and Ambient build a space for mindfulness.

Elena is an Austrian rooted artist, singer and songwriter, debut performing her yet unreleased solo album in the USA. By the age of seven she started to play piano but also recognized an aversion to work with sheet music. Instead of reading music she just learned by ear and created her own notation system to pick up the highlights of her improvisations. Five years later a traumatic experience led Elena to write poems. That way she could reflect and process present emotions. At one point she discovered melody, rhythm and dynamic behind those lines. This was Elenas’ very instinctive origin of creating music. While studying‚ Photography and audio-visual Media’ at Höhere Graphische BLVA in Vienna, Elena started collaborations with different musicians and producers. By the age of fifteen her first airplay followed on RadioFM4.

In the last couple of years the 22 year-old kept her main focus on the band project Aramboa. Electronic beat patterns, distorted guitar licks and warm horn sounds circulated around Elena’s voice and lyrics.  After dropping their Debut Album in May 2017 and several Single Releases in 2018, they are now working on their second record. Their tours around europe included Tallinn Music Week (EST), Stream Festival (A), Enea Spring Break (PL), Auster Club (GER), Café V Lese (CH), Aperitivo Alverde (IT) and many more. Next tour highlight: Bushfire Festival in South Africa, May 2019.

By the experience of fusing live-instruments with high-end electronic music, Elena’s Solo Album From A to Be reflects her risen interest and skill of sound production and composition. Also this record represents a very subtle diary of Elena’s art of living, as the album name implies. She is hosting musicians like Wenzl Mcgowen (US), Koenig (AT), Penthy Roussies(PT),..