Formed in New York in 2005 by Evagelia Maravelias and Brian Wenckebach, Elika describe their dreamy music as “blissed-out ambience with head-nodding beats that range from Downtempo to Trance to IDM.”
They mix spacey female vocals with gauzy, textured guitars; field recordings; and crisp drum programming to create incredibly visual songs with the atmosphere of childhood and layers of detail. Describing their influences, Eva and Brian mention Slowdive, Karen Carpenter, Boards of Canada, Nico, Squarepusher and Flying Saucer Attack.
“Elika from Brooklyn—an incredibly exciting, radical fusion of shoegaze and electronica elements.” - Ulrich Schnauss
“These kids are so good, they could battle the sun.” – Jason Martin
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Barneys New York & Alexander Wang & Elika: http://bit.ly/2gHOmT 09:19 AM October 10
Trying got us nowhere is a great album, listened to the first track, then bought the album on iTunes. Wish you lots of success.
Feb 15 2008, 11:24 AM
omg ! guys ur soooo00oooo amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i loved ur songs , i support u 100 per cent u rock! \m/
i loved the song you'renot safe at all
Dec 18 2007, 10:02 AM
hey guys just wanted to say you are cool. stumbled on your song in an hour liked it so i thought id check you out...great stuff. wish you best of luck!