songwriter / composer
Elaine is thrilled to be composing music for Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space for Vocal Trio Triumphatrix premiering May 2020 in NYC presented by Voices of the New, Voices of Ascension. Astronautica is an hour of newly commissioned music by women composers, for a trio of women’s voices, with lyrics drawn from the minds of some of the most talented and accomplished group of women in the world: female spacefarers. Premieres by Composers Libby Larson, Bora Yoon, Jane Sheldon, Kamala Sankaram, Rashonda Reeves, Renee Favand-See, Jennifer Jolley, Gilda Lyons and Nkeiru Okoye. Performed and Conceived by Trio Triumphatrix: Lindsay Kesselman, soprano Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo soprano and Kirsten Sollek, alto.
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