Music

Singer-songwriter since 1994

Art is my language. I paint what the voice cannot reach and sing what color cannot say on its own.

Elsa Basil

Elsa Basil standing beside her tall blue painting En el inmenso mar at an exhibition

The work and its song

En el inmenso mar

When Elsa exhibited her painting En el inmenso mar, its song was heard alongside it. One image, one voice, the same current. It is the clearest proof of how her two languages work together, and where the thesis of this whole body of work lives.

Listen to this work’s song

Discography

Crónica

2006

Debut album. Twelve tracks fusing trova, blues, rock-pop, and son nica.

Busca

2012

Recorded in San José, Costa Rica, on Automata Records.

Bonsai

Streaming

An experimental short album of textures and natural sounds, conceived as cinematic figures.

Selected singlesUniverso (2020) · Coral (2020) · Opio y Amapola (2021) · YO (2023) · Y vuelve (2024) · Flores y brumas (2025)

A third full album is in preparation.

Elsa Basil seated with her guitar

Her songwriting is testimony: violence, migration, ecology, justice, love. The same conscience that lives in the paintings.