ELIMAKO

ELIMAKO used to close the windows and doors when making music, she sang and played very quietly. That has changed - but her songs retain a restrained, almost shy beauty.

After cover versions on TikTok, the Bamberg-born musician released her first German single, ‘atlantik’, in 2024. The melancholic, minimalist song is about trying to find what has been lost - and the certainty that it is no longer there.

‘The song is about two people who have moved on until one side realises that they no longer fit together,’ explains ELIMAKO. Spherical keys and driving drums reflect the inner turmoil - between closeness and distance, movement and resignation, the realisation that loss is sometimes the right path.

ELIMAKO combines fragile nuances with unconventional DIY productions to create intimate, touching snapshots. The mix of elegiac indie, German pop and hip-hop, topped off by an extraordinary voice, with which the musician also enters into highly interesting alienation experiments and demonstrates absolute a cappella power, has quickly caught the attention of the young singer.

The musician, who is in her early twenties, quickly attracted the attention of tastemakers and the German music scene. Blumengarten, Levin Liam, ENNIO, JEREMIAS and OK KID brought her on stage for support shows and introduced her to a wider audience.