Short presentation of our first EP.

On sale from 1st October 2014

erica_leaves EP preview

Broken Arms

Give Me An Option

In A Funk

Suck My Heart

Brothers

Unplugged version of "Brothers" @ Bunker TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AbwexEz4eQ

Brothers - Acoustic Live Version @ Bunker Tv

Unplugged version of "Suck my heart" @ Bunker TV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AbwexEz4eQ

Suck My Heart - Acoustic Live Version

"I still remember the sound of the guitar played by my father. And the love he had for flowers and the colors of Nature. My name “Erica” came from there. But a “K” showed up eventually at the civil registry, probably because of a mistake made by the employee".
 
 
Erika loves nature, flowers and her father.
 
 
Erika loves music. She writes about her emotions, by drawing them through sounds and voice. At 16 years-old, she started composing autobiographical songs that talk about the mixture of feelings of an uneasy adolescence.
 
 
Five years later, her father’s life was suddenly cut short by an accident at work, which finally brought to fights with the paternal family and the need to record her own songs. As in frames, the escape from Biella, a new life in Rome, the love and the disappointments, the state of insecurity and the obvious difficulties happened to be the logical following snapshots of a journey that was just begun.
 
"In 2010, I have finally found my brother again after 8 years of silence and it was like finding the sun after an interminable winter. I've restarted my writing with a more mature and aware approach. I wrote songs about Life, which I love viscerally even when anger is still a part of me. I am what I am. Critical. Illogical. Irreverent."
 
Erika B: this is the name she started using. “B” as “Be”.
 
2011. Dublin. Erika wrote her first songs in English, a language that sounds more interesting rhythm-wise and which better fits her new musical direction. The unavoidable return to Rome and the conclusion of an indescribable relationship after 5 years strongly mark a new beginning. "He is the constant inspiration of my music. He has sucked my heart".
 
2013. Milan. Erika met here Federico Novelli, Flavio Cozzoli, Ivo Masnata and Massimo De Carlo. This is how "the erica leaves" project came to light.
"The band did not have to be named after me. The new sound was different, the goal was larger. I also wanted to feel myself part of a band, to share ideas and finally see the blossoms germinate and grow as they couldn’t over these last years. Ivo came out with the name of the band and unconsciously enclosed my whole life in two simple words: the roots of my name - my father’s memory - and my continuous searching of something, which maybe I will find here".

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