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To best understand Ioanna Gika and the world that she has created, it is best to shatter all that you know to be reality and toss on a druid robe as you embark on a personal journey of monastic sorcery. There is something witchy and transformative about her music which has been easily captivating to new audiences. The music bares something traditional while bridging into soft techno undertones that has created such a strong narrative for those who balance the moods of raving and meditating. 

Her album Thalassa, released earlier this year, is an amalgamation of the conflicting feelings she had experienced while going through a break up as well as coping with familial sorrows. Taking refuge in Greece to write the album, the musician took to her Greek mother-tongue as well as English to construct her poems which were amplified through her vocals which evoke spirits of sirens songs. Hey lyrics have even been quoted by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy in her best-selling book The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness. These unified layers of complexities pared with previous collaborations with electronic maven and Grammy nominated TOKiMONSTA can be heard throughout as the album slips and slides through the varying emotional extremities. 

Having recently come back from a spring tour opening for Garbage, we managed to slip in words with Gika ahead of her recent announcement of a fall tour with Chelsea Wolfe....

(full article / interview via FLAUNT here)

Ioanna Gika will be supporting Chelsea Wolfe on her acoustic tour this Fall in N. America. 

OCT 18 San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park 
OCT 19 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom 
OCT 21 Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall 
OCT 22 Estes Park, CO @ Stanley Hotel 
OCT 24 Chicago, IL @ Metro 
OCT 25 Detroit, MI @ Senate Theater 
OCT 26 Toronto, ONT @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre 
OCT 27 Montreal, QC @ Le National 
OCT 29 Boston, MA @ Royale 
OCT 31 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 
NOV 01 New York, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 
NOV 03 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club 
NOV 04 Charlotte, NC @ McGlohon Theater 
NOV 05 Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West 
NOV 06 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge 
NOV 08 Dallas, TX @ Texas Theatre 
NOV 09 Austin, TX @ Levitation 
NOV 10 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall 
NOV 12 Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf 
NOV 13 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress 
NOV 15 Los Angeles, CA @ The Palace Theatre 
NOV 16 San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom 
NOV 18 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom 
NOV 20 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox 
NOV 21 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre 

Tickets on sale, Friday June 21st at 9am PST / 12pm EST 

photo by: Corinne Schiavone

Review via New Noise Magazine

Thalassa is the debut album from Ioanna Gika, a Greek American musician signed to Sargent House. Formerly of Io Echo, Gika has spoken about how “Thalassa is about going through change that is unwanted yet unstoppable.” Gika conveys that musically by combining classical tones with cool, dark, and modern electronic moods. Thalassa means “spirit of the sea” in Greek, and like the ocean, there is a lusciousness to this breathtaking album.

Ioanna Gika will be performing Levitation 2019 on Nov 9 at Central Presbyterian Church support from Chelsea Wolfe.
Tickets HERE

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Ioanna Gika wrote and produced her first solo record, Thalassa, during a period of turbulent change. In the wake of the deaths of her father and stepfather, and the dissolution of a long-term relationship, the former member of Io Echo traveled to her family’s home country of Greece, where she witnessed its now-decade-long spiral into economic ruin and corruption firsthand. She emerged with an art-pop odyssey of gothic elegance and profound searching: for clarity, for solidity, for a way forward, like a balm amid crisis.