In the Green Room: aleksiah

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With two sweet singles and serious love on the JJJ airwaves, indie-pop songstress Aleksiah has made waves in the music world…

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You’re playing your first headline tour this August! How are you feeling in the lead-up?

I’m feeling a lot of emotions. Mostly excitement and happiness, but with some nervous energy mixed in there. I’m super eager to show everyone all my unreleased songs! I had my first show/tour ever supporting Lime Cordiale earlier this year and caught the [touring] bug. There’s something so human about travelling around to share music with people – it reminds me of those Travelling Bard stories from Medieval history books.

In Adelaide, Lucinda Grace and Sofia Menguita are your support acts. Why did you ask these artists to join you?

I love both artists dearly! I first heard Sofia when she opened for my friend, Jamie Lena, and I fell in love with her voice – it’s like melted butter. Lucinda is an amazing musician as well. I love how she fuses strings into her music. It sounds so timeless.

You’ve just released your second single, ‘Ant Song’. Tell us how this track came about.

I wrote this song as a follow-up to ‘Fern’. ‘Fern’ is about this puppy-love crush I had in high school. It was up in the air, whimsical and not very serious. Then, I met my long-term partner and I saw love in a completely different light. It wasn’t airy-fairy anymore, there wasn’t any mystery about it [and] it was grounded. [‘Ant Song’] is about mature love, when all the excitement of a new relationship fades, and you’re left with an honest love you feel for each other.

With two new songs this year, we’re hoping you’re building towards a debut EP. With that in mind, what would you want your first EP to sound like?

Music is a very new thing to me, not writing and making music, but pursuing it. The EP I’m working toward is about finding your passion, overcoming imposter syndrome, love and everything else that happens in your early 20s. I hope that when it comes out, people will resonate with it. That’s the whole reason I make music in the first place – to relate.

See aleksiah at the Grace Emily Hotel this August 24. Tickets are on sale now.

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