Fialta

Fialta is a dual-couple quartet from California specializing in ornate indie pop rich with multi-harmonies, keyboards, ukulele, and electronic elements.

New Album Coming July 15, 2016

Fialta is...

Beth Clements -- Vocals, Piano, Percussion, Glockenspiel, Synth

David Provenzano -- Vocals, Guitar, Ukulele, Percussion

Michael Leibovich -- Vocals, Drums, Synth Bass, Keyboards

Sarah Shotwell -- Vocals, Piano, Synth, Glockenspiel

CONTACT
fialtamusic@gmail.com

TOUR DATES

"Best Summer Pop Song of 2016" -Paste Magazine

This July, California-based indie pop quartet Fialta will release their second full length record, Shadow of a Drought, a, wry, synth-laced, pop meditation on life in the 21st Century. The band includes Beth Clements, Mike Leibovich, Sarah Shotwell, and David Provenzano, two married couples who teamed up in 2011.

Shadow of a Drought is a balanced departure from Fialta’s first record, Summer Winter (2013), retaining plenty of surfy, west coast overtones while showcasing electronic elements and high-energy, dance-worthy rhythms. The album title’s pun was pulled from a line in Fialta’s forthcoming single, “Do the Best We Can,” a soaring, harmonic, millennial anthem inspired by the dangerous drought conditions faced by the band’s home state. The rest of the album follows suit thematically, wrestling with the implications of drought of all kinds: environmental, spiritual, creative, and relational. But the hooky, harmony-driven record never steers too far into serious waters, instead delivering incisive lyrical observations with synthy, sun-drenched, melodic fervor and a touch of irony, qualities that have earned Fialta comparisons to bands like Vampire Weekend, Foster the People, Phoenix and Stars.

The tightly knit four piece are multi-instrumentalists who regularly swap roles during their live set, employ dueling male/female lead vocals, and collaborate on writing and producing. This summer, Fialta will head out on a west coast tour to promote the release of Shadow of a Drought.

HIGHLIGHTS

5.2016
"Do the Best We Can" single released.

8.2015
"Summer Winter" featured in LA Music Blog's "Summer Heat Wave."

3.2015
"Greek Pretender" is featured on NBC's "A to Z."

1.2015
"Baby, I" is featured on NBC's "A to Z."

9.2014
"Sleepy Time" featured in Chipotle commercial PBS show "Food Forward."

5.2014
Mikey appears as featured musician on season finale of NBC's "About a Boy."

5.2014
"Baby, I" is featured on MTV's "Awkward."

4.2014
"Sleepy Time" is featured on NBC's "About a Boy."

11.2014
"Photographs" featured on MTV's "Awkward."

11.15.2013
"Sleepy Time" is featured in a MINDBODY commercial.

09.28.2013
"Baby, I" featured in NBC's "Parenthood."

09.28.2013
Fialta opens for Colbie Caillat at Vina Robles Amphitheater.

08.15.2013
"Baby, I" is featured in a Yammer commercial.

07.23.2013
Debut album, Summer Winter, is released.

07.15.2013
All Music Guide exclusively premieres Fialta's full-length album, Summer Winter, one week before release.

06.20.2013
"Greek Pretender" gets added to regular rotation on CA radio station Krush 92.5.

03.10.2013
"Summer Winter" is featured in a Kmart commercial.

PRESS

"I've been doing the best I could to find you the best Summer Pop Song of 2016. And as of today, the honor goes to California's Fialta" [5/23/2016]
Full article — William June - Paste

"Fialta whips up cleverly arranged, erudite pop confections with lots of handclaps, glockenspiel, and ukulele, all of which are peppered with crystalline harmonies with a sound that handles the precarious spinning plates of suburban folk, self aware indie pop and local musical theater." [7/15/2013]
Full article —James Christopher Monger - AllMusic

"It’s a shame that California indie-pop band Fialta‘s album Summer Winter isn’t coming out until July. If latest single “Photographs” is any indication of the rest of the LP, this record would make for a soundtrack to a complete summer." [6/09/2013]
Full article —Magnet Magazine

"'Photographs' by Fialta ... pulls out all the summer stops in a song of youth with a bittersweet edge of memory and loss: power-pop guitars, high and breathless harmonies, whistles, tambourines and even sleigh bells." [5/27/2013]
Full article —KDHX - Song of the Day