XAMBUCA

XAMBUCA aka XAMBUCA and Elisa Faires is an ongoing collaboration with husband Chandra Shukla and at times a cast of other guests and characters. The project is steeped in electronics and electroacoustic elements along with the addition of Elisa Faires’ vocals and her other experimental contributions including electronics, found sound, samples and other electroacoustic sources, instruments and objects.

Xambuca has seen Elisa Faires collaborate with her from Chicago to Berlin and more infamously performing alongside Xambuca with maestro Hans Joachim Roedelius and German absurdist/neo-dadaist poet Klaus Becker at More Ohr Less Festival 2012 and also opening for David J Haskins on his solo tour in 2017. Xambuca’s Chandra Shukla also runs Erototox Decodings, the label that’s home to two of Elisa Faires’ releases including Elixir 444 (etd0020) 2010 and Photosynthesis (etd0023) 2014. Elisa’s vocal’s can be heard on the track アㇷ゚ト (apto) from Xambuca album entitled ‘カムィ‘…

アㇷ゚ト (apto) by X A M B U C A, released 13 June 2014

Her piano can also be heard on this Xambuca track entitled ‘lengesta fjörðurinn’ from það var eyja, þetta er hafið alongside friend Meg Mulhearn’s violin.

það var eyja, þetta er hafið. by X A M B U C A, released 22 September 2015 1. Black Ísland (Black Iceland) 2. toppurinn 3. er frosinn sjór 4. saga 5. Ægir 6. lengesta fjörðurinn 7. rafmagn

Listen to the collaboration album between XAMBUCA + Elisa Faires entitled Tied Tide Beneath The Sky on Bandcamp…

Tied Tide Beneath The Sky by XAMBUCA + Elisa Faires, released 14 September 2020 1. Bellsong 2. For Ryn 3. Tied Beneath the Sky (Ceremony) On September 14th, 2019, Chandra Shukla and Elisa Faires were asked to compose music for the wedding ceremony of Jon Claude and Kelledy (née Francis) Bieschke.