Lyric video for the song 'Roots of Old' by Elina Auriel from Land Of Thunder - Part III, available on Bandcamp and online streaming platforms. www.elinaauriel.com

'ROOTS OF OLD'

Composed by Elina Auriel Lyrics by Elina Auriel

Produced by Jovan Ducret at Rootwork Productions

Arranged by Jovan Ducret & Elina Auriel

Mixed by Jovan Ducret

Mastered by Jovan Ducret

All instruments played by Jovan Ducret

All vocals, backings & choirs sang by Elina Auriel

'ROOTS OF OLD' Lyrics:

Be silent, please I wanna hear the language of the trees The world seems not the same Looking for long lost past remains Under the soil ancient oak groves Came with a broken heart To find roots of old Tell it to me, whisper, my friend Beautiful trees, oaks tall and grand Hawthorne and sycamore and yew Memory's been buried here, they said Now it lives in you Let it sing through you I can hear you in the rivers I can feel you in the wind Land of thunder beneath my feet Now I can go home I am finally home to me Those ancient roots of old beneath Maybe I should go home Maybe I should go home Maybe I should go home Maybe I'm not alone Maybe none of us is alone Maybe all I've ever wanted has been here all along Maybe all I've ever known Wasn't all it seemed to be Maybe what I've always searched for has been here And it's in me Maybe sun rise in west And sundown is east Maybe beauty is not what was told And it's the beast All the ships that passed me by Hurt none but my pride Maybe all I've ever done was be on my side So maybe I should go home Maybe I should go home Maybe none of this will matter when I'm gone But this song Cause I can hear you in the rivers I can feel you in the wind Land of thunder beneath my feet Now, I can go home I am finally home to me These ancient roots of old beneath I am finally home to me These ancient roots of old

NO AI WAS USED IN THE MAKING OR PRODUCTION OF THIS SONG #ElinaAuriel #LyricVideo #RootsOfOld

In this video, I am sharing some thoughts on feeling like you don't belong in the world... AI STATEMENT: Please note that AI is not part of my process at all - not to brainstorm or come up with ideas, and definitely not to create music or other audio/visual material or what I say.

My “Healing The Orphan Within” podcast is out now on my YouTube channel.

Thoughts but also tools for healing are shared.

I understand this may not be for everyone but my intention is that those who need help may be helped in some way.

We have to fight as society for our children facing abuse within the parental home.

We talk about all sorts of issues around children but we ignore the most basic: domestic violence camouflaged as normal or as “discipline”.

Domestic violence experienced over decades and psychological control and manipulation is not a spanking on the hand but it is as if people avoid looking at it while hiding their own wounds, their PTSD and even wonder “why am I like that?” when the whole world gaslights us that the abuse we received as children for decades was “normal” so we don’t understand why we are broken inside.

Children have no agency of their own, they are at the mercy of whether their parents will turn out to be decent human beings or controlling tyrants.

This is not OK.

This needs to change and it will only change when we openly talk about it and educate the collective on this trauma and how to HEAL from it so that we don’t become that which traumatised us.

Highest Blessings,
Elina Auriel

🌹 AI is NOT part of my creative process, writings or posts.

#EtherealMusic #AlternativeFolk #DarkFolk #CinematicPop #ElinaAuriel

Welcome to this podcast on healing the orphan complex within in a society that minimizes parental abuse and labels it ''discipline'' and names the victims as ''too sensitive'' while treating the huge waves of people going no contact with their families as a mere ''trend''. This is not a trend. We are finally waking up and refusing to accept psychopathy as normal. Thanks for watching.

Please note that AI is NOT a part of my work or creative process.

I channel in the moment and nobody writes for me what I end up saying. There is no brainstorming with ChatGPT here and definitely my songs are entirely coming from my own brain and soul.

Part III of my new album 'LAND OF THUNDER' is out March 27th 2026.

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Highest Blessings, Elina Auriel

In this video, I am taking you behind my choice to not use AI in my process as a creative, sharing concerns & my own perspective on the topic.

‘ORPHANS’ music video is out now!🌹
- with lyrics in closed captions, too.

This is for everyone who has felt like an orphan despite having a family, those who have had to cut off their family of origin or those who found themselves suicidal or severely depressed for years due to abusive inter-generational dynamics within their families.

I see you, I am one of you. I love you.

God is within.
True parentage is within ourselves.
Reparent the inner child to heal the trauma of betrayal from the False Parent archetypes perpetrated in our societies.

For many of us this is our mission.
The amount of spiritual warfare that many of us have had to deal with coming from those closest to us, from those super vulnerable bonds, is humbling. And when the work and responsibility to “fix” yourself after decades of relentless abuse (overt and covert which is even more tricky to discern and safeguard yourself against) finally falls on us, we are the ones who find ourselves having to venture in the darkness of the wasteland others caused upon our souls while for them it was just another Tuesday.

This song speaks of the mission of seeing clearly where you came from and fighting through the retaliatory guilt-trips, attacks, gaslighting and isolation that comes with choosing to stand up for yourself while still trying to pour the best of you into your inner child and the world.

This song is my testament to the long hard-fought battles against insanity within the cult-like weaponized institution of “family”.

For all my Alchemists navigating the process of healing and learning to neutralise the orphan complex within… We got this. I love you.

Thank you. 🌹

ELINA AURIEL ✨

🚨 AI is NOT part of my creative process, writings or posts.

Written by @elinaauriel
Produced by @jovanducret at @rootworkproductions

#nocontact #orphans #DarkFolk #CinematicPop #ElinaAuriel

Beloved Alchemists, my new body of work is out!

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Tracklist

1. Roots Of Old

2. Orphans

3. Omens

About this project

Part III deals with loss and emerging from it with the support of natural landscapes. Produced by Jovan Ducret and written by me.

Roots Of Old - speaks of magic buried in the land that I bumped on when hiding in the woods to heal my broken heart. The elemental forces and divinity of nature bringing forth realisations and enlightenment within.

Orphans - speaks of childhood abuse trauma and the aftermath of the decision to walk away from one’s family of origin, finding the light amidst such an unnatural experience.

Omens - is probably my favourite song on this release and it speaks of noticing signs in nature that the time of heartbreak is finally coming to an end. The birds, the trees, the soil, the tears and the realisation that with dedication to one’s soul truth, a seed can grow even if it started out broken… and some things are not even our own job to fix but we were always meant to let go and let God.

Whether these songs lift you up or make you think… is the wild card here. As always with art it needs the beholder to translate and decode it. So decode it as it most helps you with your journey.

With love & appreciation,
Elina Auriel

🌹 AI is NOT part of my creative process, writings or posts.

#EtherealMusic #AlternativeFolk #DarkFolk #CinematicPop #ElinaAuriel

Last month I was asked to give an interview to the wonderful Paula from Humanamente - Health. Well-being. Personal development. I was able to talk about my work, my recent name change and my personal journey. You can read my interview by clicking below:

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The past 5 years, many songs from different side projects and albums for other artists we were working on, had been staying in hard drives and we didn’t want them to be forgotten so we decided to revive them and put them together in a new studio project between me and Jovan Ducret - so CLAOUD was born. Our first single, ‘SEARCHING’ has just been released yesterday October 18th 2025 and an EP is coming in November along with a second single.

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My latest song, KARMA is out now and I wanted to share some thoughts around it.

KARMA is a song born from the ashes of pain and transformation. It speaks to the experience of surviving abuse, betrayal, and the confusion that comes when those who harm us twist the story and paint us as the villain. I wrote this song from the space of having to heal and rebuild myself after being deeply wronged, while watching the person who caused the harm go around playing the victim. But that’s the beauty of life — we don’t have to chase justice, because karma always finds its way. You can present yourself however you like to the world, but the truth always catches up. And in the end, when karma comes knocking, it shows up exactly where it hurts most — not out of cruelty, but divine balance.

This song also reflects on the idea that karma isn’t just punishment; it’s a mirror. It shows us what still needs healing, not only within ourselves but across generations. Sometimes, the battles we face aren’t even ours — they’re echoes of ancestral wounds we came here to clear. That’s why I included the lyric “yours is yours and mine is mine” — as a kind of spell to restore karmic balance. It’s a reminder to return to the original owner whatever energy we’ve taken on that doesn’t belong to us, and to release the burden of carrying karma that was never ours to bear. KARMA is my offering to that process of clearing the slate, acknowledging the pain, and trusting that justice and healing unfold in perfect time.

I have personally worked plenty with ritual elements and soul retrieval to neutralize own karmic loads and release karmic imprints that did not belong to me but I had taken on by others through my relationships with them.

In the instrumental of KARMA, you’ll hear what sounds like ethereal backing vocals — but they’re actually a channeled Light Language transmission. Light Language is a vibrational form of communication that bypasses the mind and speaks directly to the energy field and the soul. It carries frequency codes that help dissolve dense emotional energy and restore harmony. When I recorded it, I allowed the sounds and tones to flow spontaneously, as a transmission of healing for anyone listening — kind of like a sonic ‘‘balm’’ to help neutralize pain and support the release of old karmic patterns.

All my love,

Elina Auriel

“Things I Gave the Water” is a song of past lives, of reclaiming the self after lifetimes of persecution. It carries the echoes of lightworkers who were corrected, silenced, and shaped into something other than their true medicine. But now, we unlearn. We break free. We remember who we have always been. When we stand in our truth—especially in the places we were told we could not—our world begins to heal too. This song comes from a place of awakening—a journey where I’ve carried memories of past lives since I was a child. Those fragments of ancient wisdom have always been with me, like echoes of another time. It’s the experience of knowing things you shouldn’t, remembering things you can’t explain, and being expected to act as if you don’t know what you know. 🌙

Some of my most favourite movies/series (apart from The Lord Of The Rings and Tudors and all that jazz) have been The Last Kingdom, Outlander and Vikings.

The aesthetic of these works was something I wanted to borrow a tiny bit of in terms of colouring for my new music video “Things I Gave The Water”. The blueish hues with the earthy browns - but I didn’t want it as dark - the light will always be the force I put front and center.

It is true that a song can go any direction depending on how you direct a music video. You can have celtic drums but tie the song in the audience’s mind in a modern context depending on the visual depiction of the music.

Here I wanted to take us back in time but still being me and my authentic journey as a modern woman who loves being feminine and fierce, a child of nature who loves long robes and dresses with long arms. The black colour as a representation of the water element which in the alchemical Great Work is the force that purifies and heals, washes away sin and trauma. While borrowing sounds from a palette that feels ancient and echoes in us all like a thread that connects us independently of true heritage and background. The power and magic that make a moment epic yet ethereal, which is also up there for me as an aesthetic together with the Light/Life Force. Can one be an ethereal truth warrior that doesn’t fear to sing her stories? I’d like to think of myself in such capacity.

The location was truly a place of magic, the consciousness of water was everywhere. These stones were nothing but sand from the river below. The mineral and elemental kingdom greeting the visitor with a whisper so subtle you’d stand quiet as a grave and still could almost miss it. 🧿💙🏰✨⚔️🪽

This song carries the echoes of all the lightworkers silenced through the ages. I have always been a spiritual being, yet I have never resonated with organized religion—its rigid structures too often seek to suppress the Life Impulse for the sake of control.

At the start of the video, the protagonist clings to an altar carved into the stone wall—a symbol of the inherited consciousness she was shaped by. Yet, she does not find herself within it. This external God of judgment, the weight of imposed beliefs, the endless striving to be enough in a world that demands submission—none of it nourishes her soul. She bends her head, she pleads, but the answer is always silence.

Still, even in doubt, there is revelation. In that solitude, she finds the space to remember that the Divine truly lives within ourselves/herself. She loosens her grip. She lets go of the false altars of this world. And in surrendering the false, she rises into the light she has always known was hers.

The medieval fortress we filmed in holds its own echoes of the Dark Ages—a time when the true light of Christ/Sophia Consciousness was distorted, replaced with fear, suffering, and silencing. A time when to be fully oneself was to risk persecution. In reclaiming my own spirituality, I reclaim something far greater—something that was never lost, only buried beneath centuries of fear.

This is a chapter of TIGTW that is deeply personal to me.

The weight of years… A lighthouse drowning…

These words in the song speak of paradox. How can a lighthouse drown? Isn’t it meant to stand unwavering, guiding the lost even in the fiercest storms? And yet, for years, I felt like one—my light drained, my purpose twisted, left not to guide, but to seek rescue.

But even lighthouses can find themselves swallowed by the sea. And that’s okay. The only way out is through—through the winds, through the tides, through the breaking. And now, the waves answer to me.

I re-emerge, steady and sovereign, no longer mistaking the storm for the enemy. It was never the raging sea that dimmed my light, but those who sought shelter near me yet despised my glow—those who crept inside, tampering with my inner workings, silencing my beam because it disturbed their slumber.

A lighthouse is meant to shine. If you fear the light, don’t build your home beside one. It’s that simple.

“Now I see—it’s the wolf deep inside of me, the monster in your dreams...”

The wolf has called to me since childhood, a spirit of untamed freedom, of sovereignty beyond control. To embody the wolf is to walk a path that many fear—to refuse to be tamed, to choose true living over mere survival.

These words in the song were born from the realization that choosing sovereignty often leads to demonization. Society cries wolf at those who refuse to conform, casting them as the threat, the outcast, the danger—when in truth, it is their own lack of integrity they fear.

The wolf moves with reverence among its pack, where each member is honored, valued, and essential. But in a world that does not recognize this sacred balance, the wolf is seen only as a monster.

I carry the wolf within me. It does not seek to harm, but if provoked, it will bite. That does not make it a beast—it simply means it knows its power. Those who walk with the wolf spirit will always unsettle those who remain asleep, for sovereignty is a light that exposes all that is false.

The wolf is not the enemy. It simply seeks its rightful place among those who honor its truth. And if no such place exists, then it will walk alone—unbound, unbroken, and forever free.

All my love,

Elina Auriel

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Singer/songwriter Elina Laivera releases new EP ‘Brand New Eyes’

Laivera teams up once more with music producer and artist Jovan Ducret in an EP consisting of 6 original tracks that range from the powerful, epic warcry-like track ‘Sword Sharp’ to infectiously energetic and uplifting anthems like ‘RIVER’and ‘I Am The Fire’ without failing to deliver one of the most heart-warming love letters to date in the form of ‘EQUAL’ while laughing at haters with ‘FTH’ and urging the lovers to ‘Be The Light’. This body of work is a pandesia of colours and textures the one different from its next where however everything fits perfectly together.

‘BRAND NEW EYES’ follows the songstress’s second album ‘REVIVAL’ (2022), which was also produced by Ducret and penned by Laivera.

On the album’s direction, Laivera wrote on her Instagram: ‘It seems to me everyone is eager to channel their inner darkness all around… Darkness is so glorified these days. It is as if the world has been given itself permission to openly and proudly enact its lust for (self)destruction. We need LIGHT and WARMTH to balance this out. Let us not forget who we are when the whole world around is trying to tell us we are nothing. Ask yourself whom does it serve for humanity to turn dark. Those who have been doing their perversions in secret want us now to all espouse their darkness and that openly. I say, we shine the christ light even brighter now, then!’

BRAND NEW EYES is out November 30th 2024 on all digital platforms.

Volume III, is the first of LAIVERA’s ventures to feature vocals by the artist herself as well as ethereal renditions of her own original songs from her latest singer/songwriter album ‘REVIVAL’. This chapter was heavily inspired by ”winds and seas” and the salted stories carried with the ocean seawinds from faraway lands. ”I just thought what if my song ‘RAIN’ sounded like a haunting ocean”, the artist said on her Instagram.

The album contains 6 tracks: 01. RAIN (Elina Laivera cover), 02. Thalassographies, 03. Poetry We Lost, Then Found, 04. Helianthus (Elina Laivera cover), 05. Call Of The Wind, 06. Mystic Lights (Elina Laivera cover)

On the album’s creation, LAIVERA said: ”Although I completed writing the material early, I traveled to south-western France to the Ile d’Oleron for a while and this scenery of the Atlantic ocean with its haunting beauty of raging waves on a cloudy October morning had been my inspiration all along – for a while I considered naming this project ”of winds and seas” but chose to continue with the VENTURES format because I was not ready to make a cut from it just yet. From windswept shores to the lost poetry found in old stones and abandoned castles, I knew my palete of inspiration was a very unique one this time around and even though I was once again on the lands of Eleanor of Aquitaine with whom I have a particular connection and I wrote a piece on Ventures – Vol. I inspired by this fascinating Queen, this time I went on to narrate different stories, perhaps of different aspects of the feminine – that which is like a mysterious yet ethereal sea with depths unknown yet beautiful. This inspiration acted like a filter that I pasted upon more traditionally created pieces like Rain, Helianthus and Mystic Lights that are taken from my latest singer/songwriter album ‘REVIVAL’ and breathed new life into them with those very characteristic elements of improvisation that VENTURES is known for. I never compose for VENTURES, I just improvise and this time it was fun to take already written songs and improvise ethereal varietions upon them”.

VENTURES – Vol. III is out on all digital streaming platforms.

OUT MARCH 2023

On Volume II, each track is a key that opens the door to a moment captured in time. Keys opening doors is the theme here and whether a door opens inwards or outwards, each track is sure to take you on a journey. From gazing over a snowy river in January to love shared behind closed bedroom doors and from dreams locked up in an old attic to the melancholy melodies heard over misty treetops in October and foggy mountains in November, where you put your hands in your pockets to find hawthorn berries and oak leaves.

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we filmed this session for a TV show I was going to give an interview for here in Germany. Here I can share some moments from the set with you, too, now:

All my love,

Elina

It was October 2019 -middle of the night, when I was rushed to one of the best hospitals in Germany because we thought I was having a heart attack or some super severe panic attack or whatever.

They loaded me onto some machinery and found that my heart was actually OK. They said they believed I had acid reflux. I knew something more was going on because I could feel my whole system shutting down. Still, I was discharged from the hospital and was sent home with recommendations to go have an endoscopy to rule out that I had Helicobacter Pillori or whatever it is called.

Four months later and countless medical examinations and tests both in Germany and Greece in public and private clinics of all ranges or pricing I was still bedridden. I had a diagnosis for ‘’chronic gastritis’’ but let’s be honest, no one had a clue what was wrong with me. People with gastritis are not so weakened they cannot get out of the bed, go to work or even eat, function.

I was instructed to continue to take anti-acid medication even though it did nothing to the symptoms I was experiencing. Doctors would just pat me on the back and say ‘’I know it is torture, just be patient and keep taking your meds’’. Four months, a previously healthy 27 year-old was now withering away in her bed unable to hold down anything I ate. My heart felt like it would give up on me and my mind was shutting down from multiple panic attacks per day. I thought about ending my life if it would turn out I could not live my life anymore in peace. My mental health was failing. I started having flashbacks of all sorts of trauma I had endured in my life. I seriously was thinking about exiting.

One day and while in tears I picked up my phone and started Googling for alternative solutions since conventional medicine seemed so out of touch with what was happening. I bumped on the website of a naturopathic healer who would turn out to be the person to save my life.

All the insight conventional medicine could not gain with their elaborate examinations I was able to get within minutes sitting in the office of that healer. He looked at my skin and examined my face and said ‘’I believe you have Crohns disease -your lips have a purple line underneath them’’.

I was like ‘’excuse me?’’

We went on and did tests my doctors had seemed uninformed about (nobody prescribed me these examinations while these would have given us all the answers from the start). Indeed, some days later, I got a call and I was asked to sit down and have a glass of water. I was diagnosed with Crohns disease and as result of it having gone undiagnosed for so long I suffered from such severe malnurishment that I was super close to either having a heart attack or a stroke. I was like ‘’it totally makes sense’’.

I knew from a friend of my sister that this disease is not cool. I knew of people bedridden with destroyed immune systems from all the medication and I knew of surgeries to remove parts of your colon. I knew of compromised life quality.

What I did not know because it is not advertised as much as stoma bags is that Crohns disease (and every other chronic illness) is actually curable. In fact I did not believe it was possible when my naturopath said ‘’We are going to get it to go away, do you trust me?’’

I said ‘’Are you sure this is possible?’’ He emptied a tone of files on his office and said ‘’See these? All people like you. All healed’’.

For the next months I would go three times every week to my naturopath and we would do protocols to get the situation under control. Colon cleanse, food allergies testing and elimination of foods that made my body go into alarm (it was other than that healthy foods such as tomatoes, salads, aubergine and other stuff that I had been eating since I was a baby growing up in Greece). Ozon therapy and IV infusions, heavy duty supplementation and refilling of my body’s storages with nutrient, minerals, good bacteria and vitamins that had gone empty with my gut unable to absorb anything due to inflammation.

Just as a reference, my body was 300% Vitamine D3 deficient and whole families of gut bacteria where missing from my system. My system was filled with toxins having escaped through the broken lining of my gut and into my bloodstream.

With shifting my nutrition I saw results almost the same day. Seriously.

What took a few months was flushing out all the histamine and other stress hormones accumulated in my body from the food allergies. These were the cause of my panic attacks — along with my extreme vitamine deficiencies.

The panic attacks, the nausea, weakness and abdominal pains debilitated me for a long time but it was getting better gradually. I was grateful that I started stirring back to life. Three months later I was finishing my therapy and I was a new woman. Oh and 10 kilos down as I was no longer bloated from the toxins and the inflammation.

The amazing healer I worked with (whom I consult with for everything still today) helped me through the massive healing crisis that occurs often when you get into healing chronic illnesses of this scale.

Soon, I was looking into the emotional baggage that shifted my energetical frequency through the years enough to create illness within my body. I realised that it was more than food waste that I was holding in my gut. There was a lot from my past I had not been ready to let go of and that was poisoning me.

There was a lot of fear, worry, feelings of inadequacy and therefore a subconscious need to work myself to the ground in a perfectionistic bid to prove my worthiness to emotionally unavailable people. Making them choose me. There was hurt and resentment I had not been ready to forgive. There was shock and trauma for all the times life had collapsed on me (or so I had perceived at the time) with no warning or explanation. There were big questions about everytime people had betrayed me and why would they choose to act this way to someone who gave them their all. There was a lot I had not even acknowledged until that moment. I had convinced myself that I was a fighter and that non of the horrendous experiences I’ve had had touched me. My Saturn Return came around to say ‘’we gotta clear this shit’’. Literally.

Almost losing my life to Crohns disease (due to medical neglect -I ought to say- and inability to properly diagnose me early on) taught me to put the focus back onto myself. It did not matter what these people did, what had happened — I had always been at the right place at the right time and what matters is that I have always come from a space of love and purity in all my interactions. If they chose to act out of their own darkness then this has nothing to do with me nor does it say anything about my worth, value and divine birthright to be loved and honored. It did not matter what they chose to do, how they chose to act. It mattered that I learned to discern who and what is healthy for me (or not) and it matters that I chose to find and do better for myself.

Alone taking my own physical and emotional healing into my own hands, choosing to honor myself and staying commited to what is healthy and nurishing for me showed me that Crohns disease had come to teach me of my own power and ability to hold space for myself even if no one else would do it (especially then). Soon enough people who felt grateful to be able to hold space for me started showing up. Even people who had not been able to do that in the past started showing up differently for me. Because I set different boundaries. I said ‘’this is where I am going and whoever wants to can follow under these non-negotiables’’.

This illness had come to show me how strong I can be -not for anybody else as I had been until that moment but this time for me and me only. It came to teach me to speak lovingly to myself, to feed this little girl with love and to wash her, dress her, entertain her, make time and space for her to rest, not to punish her for her needs but to parent her into leading from the heart, allowing anyone and anything that does not resonate with that fall away from her life.

People, connections, jobs -I would hold onto these things, too even though they were making me sick. The last two years and with the pandemic in Divine Timing to allow me to put everything on halt, I exited from everything I was up to. I spent the next two years by a river, doing spiritual work (I am a trained energy healer — it was time to heal myself!), talking to Spirit and healing from the inside out on many levels. Anything and anyone that just wanted to take and had no intention to contribute to my experience vanished. Some people showed their true faces. Some people laughed at me for choosing my new slow-paced, healing-oriented lifestyle. But overall, I didn’t really have to cut anyone out or do something drastic. I just became my true self (and still continue to work on it as I don’t think this quest ever reaches completion while we’re alive) and the rest fell into place through resonance.

Taking my own healing into my own hands and purging everything that did not resonate with love out of my life taught me a lot about generational curses and baggage moving within family lines. I saw how a lot of what I was being called to heal for myself was also a gift that I was making to my ancestors and those who came before me but also I was setting a new, healthy precedent for those who shall come after me.

There is a lot of campaigning currently on normalizing pain and while this is good on the one hand because it helps some people feel seen, I feel like there is a fine line between acknowledgement and complacency/not taking charge to create change in ones life.

In the same way, I feel like a lot of us have just been conditioned to accept without questioning the norms and precedents of the history of our families and the behavioral patterns found within them. We are crying and venting about these things but do nothing to implement positive change. We continue the patterns of our ancestors without ever questioning: ‘’does this really work for me? is this even mine to carry? is this even what I believe about life, people, relationships, my purpose?’’

What is my truth? This is what I had to sit with for the first time in my life. Up until that point I was getting my permission to be from others. And they would say ‘’oh no, you can’t share your truth, people will get offended or misunderstand and you got to stay safe -keep it all in’’.

People ignore that not speaking your truth does not only save you from possible embarassment but it also makes you unaware of what that truth is after a while. Your truth along with so many parts of you start going underground. So you start taking on people, relationships, jobs that you would have never even looked at twice had you been in touch with your truth. Almost losing your life to an illness makes you come back and look at life through the eyes of a human being who wishes to cherish every bit of time and free will they still have left on this planet. You cannot ask them to stay in a job they hate. You cannot ask them to tolerate abusive people. You cannot ask them to not speak their truth so as not to upset anyone.

Healing my body, spirit, mind and heart required a true soul retrieval on my behalf -one that I performed myself upon myself. Not in some fancy shamanic retreat in Costa Rica but by a humble river in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. This goes to say, that if it is healing you wish to commit to start right where you are. All the magic and tools you need for your biggest breakthrough are usually right there were you are at the moment. It is part of your story. It is part of you.

I went on to write about my healing and my new life in my upcoming album ‘REVIVAL’ coming out on all digital platforms September 30th 2022. For the time being, you can find a song that captures greatly my journey to health available on YouTube. It is called (obviously) ‘HEAL’ and I am grateful I have been alive to write and record it. I hope it gives you hope and stirrs in you the knowing of your own power to take action and a step at a time move towards your own healing, wherever it is needed in your life.

I love you all.

Elina Laivera (elinalaivera.com)

Greek songstress Elina Laivera releases second official album ‘REVIVAL’: Germany-based music artist Elina Laivera releases her new album ‘REVIVAL’ on September 30th.

Laivera teams up once more with music producer and artist Jovan Ducret in an album that consists
of 10 original pieces that range from powerful, infectiously energetic and uplifting to soft, deep and reflective. On the album’s direction, she says: ‘REVIVAL is an album about life, rebirth, celebration, wonder, spirituality, deep transformation. It is a magical album, very mystical somehow -lots of atmosphere but also strength, power, rising above chaos, forging ahead with faith, focusing on building the new and not on the old falling apart, resilience, breaking free from delusions/illusions and finding clarity (…) and it’s a prayer, an invocation, a call for more authenticity and personal truth to shine through. It’s a celebration of the Self. Who are you today? After everything? It’s time to celebrate that.’’

Laivera penned the majority of the tracks on the album with Ducret contributing his
songwriting skills in two tracks (‘Picture’ and ‘Pressure’) and taking up arrangements,
execution (Ducret has played or programmed all instruments you hear on this body of work), production, recording, engineering, mixing and mastering duties. Additional mastering was carried out by Sascha Pamann of Momentum Mixing.

The lead single ‘HEAL’ is an ode to overcoming mental, emotional and physical issues. Its aim: to inspire individuals to take their healing into their own hands and commit to implementing positive
change that serves them on a personal level and beyond.

‘’These songs, I can listen to them myself and get that motivation I need to get up and move things
around if I am not happy with something or accept and make peace with what I cannot control or
change’’, says Laivera.

The album – an independent release – was written and recorded at Laivera and Ducret’s music
studio in Gelsenkirchen, NRW, Germany, which they built together in 2018.
REVIVAL follows Elina’s debut full-length album ‘Alchemy’ (2019), which stayed for 15 weeks in the top 20 of the German Apple Music Charts, a Christmas album with original compositions (2021) that was played on every major radio in Germany and a piano side-project that emerged just this
past January going viral on Spotify.

REVIVAL is out September 30th 2022 on all digital platforms. More info under
www.elinalaivera.com

Elina Laivera releases her first piano album ‘Ventures’, January 18th 2022 on all digital platforms.

The album contains 9 tracks – each a small story, an atmosphere, a little venture into another world, another time. Each track aims to capture a vibe and transport the listener to a different dimension for a few minutes.

From the Court of Love of Eleanor of Aquitaine to the deepest depths of the ocean, swimming with the mythical ‘Murúch’, to meditations on a rose and impressionistic paintings coming to life, ‘Ventures’ promises a true adventure from the comfort of your couch.

On her Instagram, Laivera wrote about the project:

‘This album is a game of tapping into a picture, visual or sound, channeling and tuning into their essence and thus experiencing that very thing as if we’re there. It’s a practice on one’s innate ability to be perceptive on an almost psychic level. All compositions have been improvised/channeled by myself right on the spot. These pieces can not be reproduced live exactly as they are to be heard on the record simply because I have no idea what I played while recording. I went in to have a meditative almost trance-like experience with this record…’

Produced by Laivera herself and her long time musical partner Jovan Ducret, the album was mastered by Sascha Pamann.

Album Tracklist: 01. Intro / 02. Ventures / 03. Strides / 04. Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Court of Love / 05. Murúch / 06. Underwater Meditation / 07. Channeling A Rose / 08. Impressionistic Painting / 09. The Expressionist

To be made available on all digital platforms, January 18th 2022.

Germany-based Greek songstress Elina Laivera releases Christmas album ‘Once Upon A Christmas Dream’ on November 17th 2021 on all digital platforms.

The body of work contains 6 tracks that move from holy, sacred and traditional to uplifting, joyful and festive! Produced by Jovan Ducret, who also overtook the mixing as well as many of the arrangements on the record, the album brims with peaceful festivity and spiritual delight.

Sascha Pamann mastered the sound while Laivera penned all music and lyrics. 

As if following the demands of a currently exploding ASMR music market, Laivera added a 20 minute track containing only ‘Christmas Ambience’ in it; for meditation, relaxation, study or sleep.

PRESAVE opens November 9th and an album sampler has been just released for the public to get a taste of the album’s flair.

Only back in October, the songstress had given cues that she had been working on a Christmas release via a blog post on her official website:

”These days, I am in the studio wrapping up what is to be my first Christmas record ever. I am super excited and I am so happy I get to share one more body of work with the world. I am grateful if this album finds the right people and touches them in the ways people need music to touch them.

So far I cannot say more because I shall be announcing things more officially some time beginning of November 2021 but I wanted to give you a heads up and let you know that there is new music coming earlier than 2022! 

Of course I am working and planning to release a new album in 2022, as well but the Christmas record came together so beautifully and organically as my work always does and so I could not just ignore it this time around! 

I have many surprises for this Christmas record so stay tuned! Much love to you all, Elina.” – Source: https://elinalaivera.com/archive/4485

The album is to be made available on all digital platforms come November 17th

28/09/2021

2018 we started building our music studio from scratch with my partner Jovan Ducret. Early 2019 the studio was finally ready and we started with the production of my debut album ‘Alchemy’. Throughought 2017/2018 I had completed many songs on my own and demo versions were given to Jovan who then worked his magic on producing those songs. 

So here we were, the most magic on this album was done between March and August 2019 when we were bunkered up in the studio arranging the songs and then recording my vocals and doing the mixing and mastering of the album.

Making this album was a process of learning to accept myself and learning to heal lots of hurt aspects within me. It is no secret the album dealt with break up themes and themes of life after having experienced narcissistic abuse within intimate relationships.

This album was heavy. In fact i said so back when i announced the album’s coming. I said ”this is a dark album”. Back then i said it kind of apologetically because i felt for the longest time like i should not put this music out because of how raw, confessional and personal they were.

I didn’t want people to think of me as a person who sits in a corner lamenting about everything she had been through but at the same time i felt like i wanted to be part of the conversation around healing pain and hurt (no matter the source). 

You see, in my work as certified meditation coach and energy healer i see so many people who carry pain but never even admit it to themselves because they feel like i felt: they don’t want to be perceived as weak if they start speaking about what they went through and how it affected them.

I wanted to stop this cycle in my own personal life with my own personal example. Truth is i don’t care what others do, if society is not comfortable addressing heavy issues and would rather self-medicate on perfectly illustrated lives on social media. I care about what i do. I care about making my every move an example. I have been this way since i was little and long before it was trendy to do something like that.

However i am happy that in the years between the release of Alchemy and now (2021 when I am writing this blog) the dialogue has expanded tremendously. There are so many therapists, healers and people on their healing journey that open up about their experiences and have normalized the fact that we can get hurt and broken.

Only through acceptance and acknowledgement can we heal. Stuffing things down and ignoring intense emotions because we are not comfortable acknowledging them only brings more suffering.

Another thing i am extremely happy about is my own personal healing through this album. I wrote those songs because it was therapy for me. This material helped me voice feelings i had suppressed and hurt i had been too proud to admit. Today I am happier than ever. Why? Because this album helped me process the trauma and let it go.

I am not lying when i say ”happier than ever”. That’s because today I am indeed healthier than ever on all areas in my life. This album helped me heal issues that had roots in events way before the break ups the album revolved around. There were existential issues within me that kept on attracting abusive people close to me. My poor boundaries were one of those issues.

Songs like Exit Theme allowed me to laugh at the ways i had been deceived by someone. Angry Letters was very much about healing not being a linear process as I had thought but literally ‘one step forward then two back again’. This song dealt also with me processing the anger that usually emerges after the first waves of being hurt by someone. I was never an angry person but at some point on my healing journey i found myself dealing with this incredible anger for all the times I had allowed people to use my kind nature as means to deception.

And then there was finally the other side. Songs like Haunted and Hater allowed me to see myself on the other side and openly admit that i have moved on and I am not left in bitterness, hurt or hate. 

2 years after the ‘Alchemy’ album i have spoken in other songs of mine like ‘Helianthus’ and ‘Picture’ about the transformation my life underwent because of my willingness to examine my wounds and patterns and heal them. I would have never had developed that willingness without the experiences ‘Alchemy’ was about. 

In this sense, i can say today, that this album carries in it a lot more than a story. It carries a testament of a person’s rising from the ashes and insisting on living life with their heart fully open. 

All my love,

Elina

Elina Laivera new single ‘PICTURE’ has reached #21 on the Global Hot 40 Musivv Charts in Dubai, UAE. 

Elina Laivera debut album 'Alchemy' in the Top 20 of the German Apple Music Charts

So apparently THIS happened!

My debut album ‘Alchemy’ spent 15 weeks in the top 20 of the German Apple Music Charts alongside The Weeknd, Khalid, Sade, Alicia Keys and Kehlani. Wow, this is beautiful, thank you so much to everyone streaming my music!

All my love,

Elina

November 30th 2019 we premiered with full band the album on stage – in Germany at the legendary venue Ebertbad in Oberhausen opening for German rock veterans TIME! The event was at the same time a charity event aimed at supporting autistic children and we were honored to premiere the Alchemy material infront of so many wonderful people! Thank you all for having us!

This is the beginning: Tour dates for Spring/Summer of 2020 for the ALCHEMY TOUR will be announced early 2020 here so stay tuned!

Big thanks to photographers Tim Schumacher and John Grant for their wonderful pictures as well as our filming crew Sven Janssen, Joana Ducret, Alex Cross for filming the show for a little surprise to be announced! Last but not least, a huge thank you to our fantastic band musicians: Jovan Ducret (drums, artistic direction, band arrangements), Dennis Ficon (bass), Maverick Scholl (guitar). See you on tour in Spring 2020!

All my love,

Elina

Some of the first reviews on Elina’s debut album ‘ALCHEMY’ have started rolling in! View them below:

RATTINGGAMES: ”Elina Laivera is a fantastic singer! Not only is her vocal abilities outstanding, but she also has an impressive knack for blending a bunch of different genres together in her music. In “Alchemy,” she shines bright, gifting us with music that is pleasant, melodic, powerful, well-crafted, soulful, and heartwarming.” -Read full review here: https://ratingsgamemusic.com/2019/11/05/stream-elina-laiveras-alchemy-album/?fbclid=IwAR00EYxOhXLppL4tOonM785pONSJx62CouqcKYjuNEld-06dLHSMRKXuXrU

MUSICTRAILS.COM: Speaking about the album, Laivera said, “It’s like I needed to tell my story before I let go so that others who have been abused or betrayed by someone they cared about know that they are not alone and actually healing is more ​than possible.” Read full review here: https://music-trails.com/elina-laivera-alchemy/

XTTRAWAVE: ” Nothing distracts from Elina’s voice — bluesy and determined, proud and tearful, utterly exposed and fully human”. Read full review here: https://xttrawave.com/music-review-elina-laivera-alchemy/

MUSIC CROWNS: ‘‘Alchemy’ is a transformative album with powerful vocals and uplifting melodies, which brings a sense of community and understanding to anyone who has ever gone through the same experiences”. Read full review here: https://www.musiccrowns.org/emerging-talent/elina-laiveras-new-album-alchemy-surfaces/?fbclid=IwAR1eRuZwsIevvSq8Um9kjd7xTO3yeSaQyR6q9jHWl5GEJyMImaVV2wb_lPg

DAILYMUSICROLL: ”‘Alchemy’ displays a wide range of emotions and has been perfectly arranged with adequate voice offering and electrified beats that make the result extremely melodic. ” – 4.6/5 -Read full review here: https://www.dailymusicroll.com/

Elina Laivera debut solo album ”Alchemy” out now on all digital platforms! Buy/stream/download here 

Elina’s message on Facebook: ”I wanna thank everyone and everything that came/happened in my life before this album. Thank you to everyone I’ve worked with in the past (goes all the way back to my metal music days) and everyone and everything that shaped me into who I am today strongly enough so I could put it all in a record with such confidence.

The woman on the cover of this album has outgrown the insecure girl she was and feels alright putting out her music posing in casual jeans. Looking straight into the camera cause she has nothing to hide, she’s honest and her heart is clean and fierce. I hope you like this woman… It’s been wonderful for me to meet her for sure ”

‘Hater’ is the first single off the debut album and speaks of forgiving and not feeling hatred towards someone who caused me pain. I hope you enjoy it!

All my love,

Elina

September 6th 2019

We have just returned from travelling throughout this summer and our latest destination had been the magical South of France.

We spent days waking up to the ocean and nights enjoying the incredible seafood, playing billiard and going all out on tourist karaoke. Ate so much crab, mussles and french fries in french cheese sauce – it’s a wonder i didn’t bust! We lodged on the beautiful island Isle D’Oleron, where my partner and producer Jovan Ducret’s family roots are from. And while I have been to many amazing places in my life and I come from an amazing place myself as well, France, is something else:

The little causeways, the towers and harbors where Eleanor of Aquitaine used to gaze out in the ocean from, the culinary culture, the food markets filled with people buying flowers on a regular Monday along with mussles and wine, the smell of smoked meat and fish everywhere, the little stores selling botanica and healing crystals, the apothecaries selling soaps and herbs collected locally. A bouquet of smells, sounds and tastes. A true festival of the senses!

In between stuffing our faces with food, we managed to film the music video for my song ‘Alchemy’. 

We filmed in 2 different ocean-side locations and in both cases we had to work with nature and the elements, the geography and texture of the area. We were very blessed to have specific instructions from locals who knew what time the tide withdraws so we can film in the space freed up and of course by what time we ought to not be standing there anymore as the tide would return and cover the area again with water.

We had to deal with a lot of wind which made filming challenging in the following ways:

1 – Oftentimes I was unable to hear the playback because the wind was so loud so I had no idea whether my lip-sync game was spot on. 

2 – The wind was making our brave camera-man (that’s Jovan ahah) super shaky!

3- It was COLD! I literally had a hard time standing still and not shake because of how frosen i was.

Either way, the filming was a success and we even caught a view of the Phare de Chassiron lighthouse (built in 1836).

Here is a little behind the scenes video:

All my love,

Elina

The vocal recordings for my debut album have started and i am so thrilled!

This album was literally re-written 3 times! I started writing it in 2016 and then scrapped the material and started writing new songs in April 2017 as i felt i had changed as a person A LOT within that one year and i wanted a different sound for my first album. 

September 2017 saw me sitting in a studio with Jovan Ducret for the first time brainstorming on the demos I brought him. The demos were all just piano and my voice. Many of the songs however didn’t reflect my personality as I found myself once more looking for more depth and honesty in my craft. 

So 2018 found me revisiting and remaking some of the 2017 songs and largely writing new songs to go into the album. Early 2019 and frankly 2 weeks before vocal recordings started i was still working on new songs and was bringing them in. 

Interesting cases are songs like ”Over Your Head”, which i wrote in 2015 with the intention to give it to a balkan pop producer but the chemistry never really fit and the song stayed in my drawer until 2017 when a house music producer wanted to take it. This didn’t work either and so the song was left aside once more. May 2019 i pulled it out and gave it a different second verse and came up with this beautiful oriental-like bridge and I decided to put it on my debut. This song felt like a risk. I thought to myself ”does the world need one more reggaeton song?” but I went for it because of what the song meant to me and how it had stuck with me from 2015 all the way to 2019.

So these days I am laying vocals for the album and there are songs like ”I Didn’t Die” that i can’t wait to sing because of how challening they are and the emotional depth they carry.

Having said that, you can tell I am happily busy over here. Can’t wait to share this album with you! You could expect it to be released at some point in late 2019 if all goes well.

Till then, stay tuned on my instagram, facebook and of course here for blog posts!

All my love,

Elina