Dear friends,
Hope you are well and your summer is going swimmingly.
My new song Swimming with Dolphins is out now! Made it to Berlin and made this video with dolphins around the world. I found watching them very inspiring-hope you do too!
Watch on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/
Buy on Bandcamp!
https://erikakulnys.bandcamp.
Available on all platforms worldwide!
Swimming with Dolphins was written with veteran hit songwriter, Alan Roy Scott (Celine Dion) on the beautiful Irish island, Inis Oírr, where a wild dolphin loves to swim freely with people. This song is about being free, from our conceptions about ourselves, our conceptions of others, and our attachments to suffering. It is about following the wild dolphins who show us how to laugh and love and sing in our power. This acoustic version was recorded live off the floor at Ojalá in Havana with Cuban pianist, Alejandro Falcón, and will appear on Erika’s upcoming record, Stand Together, for peace and empowerment. A fully produced pop version will follow.
Seeking investors in indie-folk-pop-trova album, Stand Together; upcoming Americana album: Oh, America; and upcoming pop album: Hello Thunder.
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Also seeking a booking agent to book tours in Europe, the UK, and North America for 2024-26, a manager, and a record label
Stand Together is a collection of songs focused on love, standing together across borders and ideological differences, healing, and transforming suffering into joy. Listen to the acoustic version of the title track, featuring Kala Farnham’s harmonies here:
https://open.spotify.com/
Stand Together was recorded at Ojalá by Olimpia Calderon Arias, at EGREM by Merlin Lorenzo, and at Signature Sounds in Connecticut by Mark Thayer. Ojalá is the studio of Erika’s songwriting idol, Silvio Rodriguez, and EGREM is Cuba’s national music production company. Both are in La Habana, Cuba. Signature Sounds is Erika’s long term studio, where she recorded her last album: Rise Up: https://open.spotify.com/
and previous albums.
Stand Together includes Spanish songs, Fantasma (Ghost), a co-write with Jeniffer Dalía Morales Rodriguez, and Alcanzando La Rosa (Reaching for the Rose), a co-write with Gareth Dunlop in Belfast, translated into Spanish in Santa Clara. It also includes a love song co-written at Folk Alliance International with Lilli Lewis called Montreal, about healing and finding home, and Black Swan, about recovering from domestic abuse in Ireland. The Spanish songs, to be released in September, feature an all-star Cuban band.
The first single, My Choice supports Whole Woman’s Health, fighting for reproductive justice in the USA. The second single, and title track, Stand Together, is a song started in Cuba, realised in Germany, and produced in the USA and Canada. Listen to the acoustic version featuring Kala Farnham here:
https://open.spotify.
Stand Together is about ending the torture, internment and subjugation of refugees and creating a culture that recognizes our common humanity over national borders.
The third single, Sirena en la Playa, is a song for peace:
https://open.spotify.com/
followed by Other Side of the World, a love song exploring internalised homophobia and freeing ourselves: https://open.
and Santa Clara Moon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Listen to recent singles and follow Erika on Spotify:
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If you wanna hire Erika to come to your town or festival or concert series, send her music to your local folk, jazz, world music, feminist, peace and queer festivals, as well as radio stations!
Email to arrange a concert near you
If you find yourself in Berlin, join me at Break to hear me sing new peace music with piano!
Sept. 7th 7 pm
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