AWARD-WINNING BASSIST AND COMPOSER ISAIAS ELPES DEBUTS NEW ALBUM

Isaias Elpes releases his newest album, “PACÍFICO” is available on all major streaming channels. In this 12-song album that unassumingly characterizes Elpes’s exceptional musicality, he is credited with the songwriting and complete instrumentation, as well as mixing and editing.

“PACÍFICO” takes its listeners on an emotional journey navigated from the bases of Elpes’s classical guitar and supported by his signature sound of Brazilian rhythms, Western classical music and Latin country sounds. The first six songs are full-band recordings, while the final six are solo versions – acoustic guitar only.

Widely celebrated as a touring and session bassist, the LA-based songwriter began his musical career as a classically trained guitarist in Brazil. He has been attached to such works as Gloria Estefan’s “BRAZIL305,” in which he holds both musician and arrangement credits, as well as “Acústico MTV - Tiago Iorc (Ao Vivo)” with special guests Jorge Drexler and DUDA BEAT. Elpes has worked with such legends as Grammy/Oscar Award-winning artists Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, Tiago Iorc, Gloria Estefan, Marcos Valle and more - including his mentor Abraham Laboriel.

As a composer, Elpes’s music has been featured on international albums and soundtracks including his recent original score for the book trailer “Os Continentes De Dentro.” His original songs have also appeared in episodes of CBS Primetime’s “Zoo” and USA's "Rush."

Cemented with the release of his July 2020 EP (“LUA”), Elpes continues to distinctively establish himself as a solo artist and songwriter. The five-song album, which earned him reference to a modern-day Heitor Villa-Lobos, blends Elpes’s cinematic writing style with his Brazilian upbringing to result in a genre-bending collection of songs that flows through jazz, classical, world and instrumental music.

Isaias Elpes is an award-winning musician and composer from Brazil, having put down his roots in Los Angeles nearly a decade ago. In 2016, Elpes won the Grand Prize Bass award in Lee Ritenour’s Yamaha-sponsored Six String Theory Competition. Most recently, he toured with Latin Grammy-winner Tiago Iorc in 2019 on MTV Unplugged and the Brazil national tour. In 2020, Gloria Estefan released “BRAZIL305,” which included the hit single “Cuando Hay Amor,” co-arranged by Elpes. His discography includes the 2014 self-titled album “Isaias Elpes,” 2020 releases “LUA” and “ELEPHANT,” and the 2021 album “PACÍFICO.” For more information, visit www.isaiaselpes.com.