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Hello,

It’s been a while. 

I have not made the time to write to you for a long time, even though it has been on my mind. It is surreal how time slips away if we don’t grab it. I have been busy, there was a lot of traveling and a lot of shows in the first months of the year. And then i took a break, much needed resting -by way of staying away from screens-.

DIA came out and with it I embarked on a tour that took me around a very, very vast piece of our world, playing many live shows, for a long time. From approximately January 10th till April I did not go back to the same place, even once. I played so many different types of shows, first my own release show at home in Bogotá. Then, I did 14 shows opening for Caribou and also Floating Points, then I did 10 headline shows, and 5-7 festivals? I don't know why I'm writing numbers, I don't even know them properly off the top of my mind, I guess it makes me take stock as well -for myself- when so many different things happen in a small period of time it is very hard for me to grasp, understand, or even remember, all that has happened. I'm always just trying to be so present, which is easier when you are busy, but then if you are too much in the present it all stays there when the moment passes, you know? So counting, numbers, lists; it all helps. I think the fact that the shows where so different -as opening shows are so different from headline shows, which themselves are so different from festival shows- i never really got in a rhythm on tour, as every few days i had to change my mindset and do a completely different show, - i think i played a different setlist every night on tour- the usual rhythm -trance like- state of tour, never happened for me this time, i never settled into a routine, so essentially everything that wasn't tour or album related that immediately needed my attention and work on it, fell to the back of my mind.

I did my last show on March 30th in Bogotá, the same place where the tour started on January 17th with DIA’s release show. Home closes the circle. On March 30th, after the last show, i did one more big post, and went straight to my mother’s farm. I forced myself to delete all social media from my phone and then proceeded to keep it on airplane mode for as long as i could every single day. I have been on that state since. i stayed at the farm for about 10 days, then i flew back to where my studio is atm and started working on music. a lot of things that i needed to finish for months had been piling up, so phone off, i got to work, i have been crossing things off the studio to-do list, feeling like myself again more everyday, getting more and more used to not having the phone as an extension of my hand, and finally, i'm back here writing.

For all of you who came to a show this year, thank you. For all of you who haven't but have been listening to DIA, thank you. You make me want to be better. More shows to come very soon, for now i’ll keep writing and making music in the weeks/days i have left of this hibernation mode i have been on.

love,

Ela.