On the album’s direction, she says: ‘REVIVAL is an album about life, rebirth, celebration, wonder, spirituality, deep transformation. It is a magical album, very mystical somehow -lots of atmosphere but also strength, power, rising above chaos, forging ahead with faith, focusing on building the new and not on the old falling apart, resilience, breaking free from delusions/illusions and finding clarity (…) and it’s a prayer, an invocation, a call for more authenticity and personal truth to shine through. It’s a celebration of the Self. Who are you today? After everything? It’s time to celebrate that.’’

Laivera penned the majority of the tracks on the album with Ducret contributing his songwriting skills in two tracks (‘Picture’ and ‘Pressure’) and taking up arrangements, execution (Ducret has played or programmed all instruments you hear on this body of work), production, recording, engineering, mixing and mastering duties. Additional mastering was carried out by Sascha Pamann of Momentum Mixing.

The album – an independent release – was written and recorded at Laivera and Ducret’s music studio in Gelsenkirchen, NRW, Germany, which they built together in 2018. Making the album was supported by financial funds from the German state stipendium ‘Auf Geht’s’ granted to Laivera for this project in early 2022.

REVIVAL follows Elina’s debut full-length album ‘Alchemy’ (2019), which stayed for 15 weeks in the top 20 of the German Apple Music Charts, a Christmas album with original compositions (2021) that was played on every major radio in Germany and a piano side-project that emerged just this past January going viral on Spotify.