The voice of Alethea pierces the soul. Whether with bare piano keys or dashes of ear-tingling electronica, with subtlety and grace, she explores her own relationships and the raw yearning inside all of us. Her confessional torch folk, heard by audiences in the U.S. and abroad, sounds like Sarah McLaughlin mixed with EDM and a touch of PJ Harvey. On stage and her music videos, her gentle soul finds fire in the power of expression.
“Because of my fractured past, I believe in connecting people through music. I write to bring healing to a broken world and to keep people dancing. There’s always hope and there’s always a way,” says Alethea.
Her music bridges the ballads of the lone soul, with the multi-layered expressions of the city, like New York where she now calls home. Solo on guitar she fills the room with a moving, aching voice with music as gentle as flowers on a Spring day, but has an underlying vibration of serious gravitas. With an ensemble, she explores sounds ranging from Latin rhythms to minimal Americana-infused tunes. Her strength is in how she digs into her own experiences, and in songs like “Butterflies” and “New York State of Mind,” beats and production bring out the depth of her spirit and show her how her imagination works in three dimensions. https://akbmusik.com (June 2020)