songwriter / composer
Elaine is thrilled to have composed two pieces for Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space, a mulitimedia song cycle presented by Voices of the New. Premiering and Performed on January 27, 2021 by Trio Triumphatrix: mezzo and curator Hai-Ting Chinn, alto Kirsten Sollek, and Lindsay Kesselman (soprano). This is a newly commissioned work for music, voice and video by women composers (Libby Larson, Kamala Sankaram, Gilda Lyons, Jane Sheldon, Rashonda Reeves, Elaine Lachica, Jennifer Jolley, Bora Yoon, Hai-Ting Chinn and Renee Favand-See) with a libretto drawn from the words of sixteen women astronauts and their experiences in outer space. Elaine's pieces are inspired by astronauts Kathryn D. Sullivan and Bonnie J. Dunbar.
Originally scheduled to premiere in May of 2020 at National Sawdust and The Flea Theater (postponed due to COVID), ASTRONAUTICA has made a fluid and inspiring transformation to an online presentation with stunning multi-media components. Read more here: www.voicesofascension.org/astronautica
Tickets to the online world premiere on January 27th, 7 pm are $15.
Ticket holders will also be able to watch the event on-demand.
GET TIX: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4913555
Originally scheduled to premiere in May of 2020 at National Sawdust and The Flea Theater (postponed due to COVID), ASTRONAUTICA has made a fluid and inspiring transformation to an online presentation with stunning multi-media components. Read more here: www.voicesofascension.org/astronautica
Tickets to the online world premiere on January 27th, 7 pm are $15.
Ticket holders will also be able to watch the event on-demand.
GET TIX: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4913555
Elaine is a critically acclaimed songwriter and founding member of Brooklyn dream pop band Arc Waves. Photo by Stephen Cass.
Arc Waves:
Acclaim for ‘The Sound the Circle’ (Campers' Rule Records 2017)
“an avant-noise post-rock electro-gaze masterpiece…vibrant and meticulous production” - The Deli Magazine, NYC
“powerful…beautiful vocal melodies with dreamlike electric guitar” - Impose
“Elaine Lachica displays a range and intensity more akin to Bjork than any of her contemporary, underground rock peers. There’s a voice distortion, manipulation, and range - which in the current musical landscape feels highly experimental” - Alt Citizen
Arc Waves crosses sonic boundaries to create songs that blur the lines between indie, classical and electronic music. The result is an enveloping sound that is assertive, beautiful and mysterious. Arc Waves has played CMJ Festival, Northside Festival, LPR Presents, Rooftop Films, SoFar, PopGun Presents and WFUV's 'Dark Night of the Soul'. Their first full-length LP 'the sound the circle' was released on November 17, 2017 on Campers' Rule Records. It was recorded at Rare Book Room in Brooklyn (Deerhunter, Wye Oak, War on Drugs) with producer Gabe Wax (Beirut, Palehound, Here We Go Magic) and mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering. Their self-titled debut was released on Bandcamp by GSR Records and recorded by Chris Butler st Newtown Recorders. Cover Artwork by Aaron Williams.
Arc Waves:
Acclaim for ‘The Sound the Circle’ (Campers' Rule Records 2017)
“an avant-noise post-rock electro-gaze masterpiece…vibrant and meticulous production” - The Deli Magazine, NYC
“powerful…beautiful vocal melodies with dreamlike electric guitar” - Impose
“Elaine Lachica displays a range and intensity more akin to Bjork than any of her contemporary, underground rock peers. There’s a voice distortion, manipulation, and range - which in the current musical landscape feels highly experimental” - Alt Citizen
Arc Waves crosses sonic boundaries to create songs that blur the lines between indie, classical and electronic music. The result is an enveloping sound that is assertive, beautiful and mysterious. Arc Waves has played CMJ Festival, Northside Festival, LPR Presents, Rooftop Films, SoFar, PopGun Presents and WFUV's 'Dark Night of the Soul'. Their first full-length LP 'the sound the circle' was released on November 17, 2017 on Campers' Rule Records. It was recorded at Rare Book Room in Brooklyn (Deerhunter, Wye Oak, War on Drugs) with producer Gabe Wax (Beirut, Palehound, Here We Go Magic) and mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering. Their self-titled debut was released on Bandcamp by GSR Records and recorded by Chris Butler st Newtown Recorders. Cover Artwork by Aaron Williams.
Reviews of Elaine Lachica's solo album 'I think I can see the ocean' (Stunning Models On Display 2012):
"Baltimore, Maryland-born Elaine Lachica has got a voice to cry for! The Peabody Conservatory trained soprano bends, undulates, quivers, and extends notes and syllables across the 14 songs of her third long player I Think I Can See the Ocean. Her voice, both as a single instrument and as the main attraction...challenges and obscures to the same extent that it soothes and transcends." By Quentin Huff-- PopMatters
"When New York-based classical soprano Elaine Lachica wears her singer/songwriter gown, she cuts a serpentine path between the dream-like shrouds of the Cocteau Twins. The Baltimore-born, Peabody-trained Lachica soars through the same sort of genre-less ether: On her third album, I Think I Can See the Ocean, Lachica steers her arresting, haunting voice into underground tunnels of nervous beauty and down-tempo meditations." By Bret McCabe -- Baltimore City Paper