Bio
Eleanor Elektra is an interdisciplinary artist originally from the Pacific Northwest who fuses music and visual art.
"There have always been two landscapes in my life - there's the Pacific Northwest which is so mentally tangible to me, and then there's Massachusetts, which is so present to me. I think the band exists in part as an outgrowth of the physical environments we occupy." - Eleanor Elektra
Spry is the outcropping of songwriter Eleanor Elektra's original music, a five-piece band, playing jazz, folk, and roots-influenced songs.
Spry is also, by design, a kind of research group, investigating the porous boundaries that Eleanor's lyrics invoke - the existential & internal, tension & flexibility, sickness & recovery, the shoreline & the forest's edge.
Alternatingly precise and wild, the group's collective compositions recreate landscapes where they can bring their audiences in to more fully examine the fragility of the communities and ecosystems around them.
Squaring Max Ridley's joyful, steady upright bass against Zosha Warpeha's richly textural and toothsome fiddle, Jacob Hiser's rippling and elegant piano against Tim Wolf's belly-felt rhythms and animalistic clatters, the group's tensions and collaborations create a bed of wonders for Eleanor to to build her songs upon.
Eleanor has been touring the United States as a solo artist for nearly a decade, and is a mainstay in the local Boston music scene, performing in premiere venues from the House of Blues to local fixtures like The Lilypad.
PRess + Reviews
Listen To Eleanor Elektra's New Album 'Exquisite Corpse' — An Ode To Climate Justice
“Exquisite Corpse” is grander than Elektra’s debut full-length, “The Lumberjack,” a dynamic record that extracted maximum catharsis from just a pair of guitars and Elektra’s voice. On “Exquisite Corpse,” the complexity of her compositions, their sinuous melodies and unexpected cadences, deepens.
—Wbur The ARTery (7/20/20)
HOW GUITARS CAN STOP THE APOCALYPSE, AND OTHER TIPS FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: A CONVERSATION W/ ELEANOR ELEKTRA
“There is something intrinsically Pacific Northwest about her soft guitar noises and her folk-jazzy odes to nature that is impossible to completely distinguish from her personhood”
— Boston Hassle (2019/09/19)
Beautifully tactile songs that drift and glide from one wonderful idea to the next. I'm overwhelmed by the density of good artistry on display here, what a great album
—Fan review (9/7/2020)
