Antwerp based band Psy’Aviah brings open-minded electronic music with energy and soul. Their sound is best described as “eclectric” as they fuse several genres and into their own musical world. The band is formed around producer and songwriter Yves Schelpe, live on stage he's accompanied by vocalist Marieke Lightband (known from her solo projectQueen of Fools and work withKOALA, as well as winner of Talenr der Lage Landen, Best International Artist at Exposure Music Awards UK) and guitarist Ben Van de Cruys.
CREATIVE EXPERIMENTATION
Experimentation is one of the main philosophies of Psy’Aviah. This is portrayed by both incorporating different genres into their own sound and by the different collaborations they have done over the years: from poetry with Suzi Q. Smith and Jean-Luc De Meyer (Front 242), to EBM power-pop with Jennifer Parkin (Ayria), trip-hop & lush warm vocals by Kyoko Baertsoen (ex-Hooveprhonic & Lunasxcape), covered by Chaos all Stars ft. Mona Roukachi, and even to Enya-esque reminders with Kristell Lowagie. Due to this varied pallet in both music and lyrics, the band fits well on different stages: from main-stream pop, rock and electronic festivals, as well as more gothic, EBM and experimental oriented shows.
TRACK RECORD
Formed in 2003, but mainly focusing on experimenting and playing live shows, the band really took form in 2007 when they released their first album “Creationism”. After that release Psy’Aviah was signed to “Sony Soulfood / Alfa Matrix” records and with them they released the albums “Entertainment Industries” (2008), “Eclectric” / “Eclectricism (2CD Limited Edition)” (2010) and “Into The Game EP” featuring Ayria (2011), “Introspection ~ Extrospection” / “Restrospection” (2CD Limited Edition)” (2011), “Contraspection” (Digital Only Release) (2011) and “OK / Virtual Gods DJEP” (2012) with remixes by Jan Vervloet, M.I.K.E., Radical G, NUDE, and more
Renewing their contract in 2012 the band worked on releasing the concept (mini)-album “Future Past” (2013) and a single/remix EP “Our Common Future ft. Kyoko Baertsoen” (2014) to mark the new “Era” of Psy’Aviah: collaborating once again with a lot of new artists to bring variety in the vocal palette. This brought the highly praised albums "The Xenogamous Endeavour" (2014) and "Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars" (2016).