Erica Buettner

Erica Buettner’s second full-length LP, The Book of Waves, is a record whose color palette embraces shades of folk, psych-pop, and catchy choruses unified by the steady hand of Buettner’s singular strength as a wordsmith.

The full-length follow up to 2013’s True Love and Water (Peppermoon Music) has been many years in the making, and its release marks the completion of a hard-earned chapter in Buettner’s story. For years, Buettner embraced a DIY spirit, hopping on the road alone with a guitar on her back, touring through European cities and several times in her adopted country of Portugal from North to South.In 2016, Buettner decided to move to New York after a full decade of living in France and Portugal. A breast cancer diagnosis came soon after, swiftly and unexpectedly, and it turned her world upside-down. With her record almost finished, she put her music on hold for two years while simultaneously battling an aggressive form of cancer. Having made it through an arduous year and a half of treatment and surviving to tell her story, Buettner is ready to celebrate the songs she had been working on before and through her illness, songs that she wrote while living in Portugal and largely inspired by her time there.

The Book of Waves has support from Fundação GDA.