ELI CARVAJAL // PRESS KIT
Connection songs that bare the light between us.
Photo by Declan Haughian.
Open-hearted, wide-eyed and playful, London singer-songwriter Eli Carvajal writes of lived experience in intimate, intense detail. Fingerpicking left-handed on an upside-down guitar, he unwinds his story-songs in layers around shimmering open tunings. His fifth album, Eyen Forever (Safe Suburban Home, 2025), was recorded in his Tokyo bedroom with Mount Fuji just visible in the distance. It closes a two-album diary of loss and love from his two and a half years in Japan.
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Bookings and press: elpcarvajal@gmail.com
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LISTEN
Bandcamp Spotify All streaming services
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WATCH
Forever (Official Video). Also: Scar Stretch Marks more on YouTube
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WORDS
“…it feels familiar on the first listen, then quietly lands lines that send you back through your own life.”
Marcus Adetola, Neon Music, on “Forever”
“…marks Carvajal as a songwriter to watch.”
Jon Doyle, Various Small Flames, on “Stretch Marks”
“The song finds Carvajal at perhaps his most intimate.”
Jon Doyle, Various Small Flames, on “Forever”
“…something at once playful, curious and heartfelt.”
Jon Doyle, Various Small Flames, on “Fear of Love”
“This album ... made me a) feel like the main character in a feature film b) question everything I know about love.”
Poppy Richler, Last Bus Magazine, on Maiden Name
“A really good thing.”
Martin Carthy, on “Mom Song”
“Beautifully judged... Light, spacious and resonant.”
Lavinia Greenlaw, on Incubabies
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LIVE
Sat 21 Nov 2026, The Cavendish Arms, Stockwell, London. Headline show. Tickets.
Sun 17 Jan 2027, The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch, London. With Daisy Casemore and Neda & Giles. Tickets.
Recent: The Ivy House, Nunhead (Sep 2026); The Shacklewell Arms, London (Jun 2026); Barrelhouse Ballroom, Totnes, supporting Fionn Cox-Davies (Jun 2026).
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BIO
Open-hearted, wide-eyed and playful, London singer-songwriter Eli Carvajal writes of lived experience in intimate, intense detail. Fingerpicking left-handed on an upside-down guitar, he unwinds his story-songs in layers around shimmering open tunings.
Eli’s humour runs through his postmodern writing: absurd details sit right beside raw confession.
Born in New York and raised in London, Eli studied Music at the University of Manchester. He began releasing solo work with the Spark EP in 2017, then self-recorded and released three albums in two years: Incubabies (2020), built around a 1996 cassette of his mother having her fortune told; Maiden Name (2021); and Feeling (2021), made entirely of first takes on cassette.
In 2022 a whirlwind romance took him to Tokyo, where he found work teaching English, singing and songwriting. His fourth and fifth albums, Eat Shiitake Now (2024) and Eyen Forever (Safe Suburban Home, 2025), were both recorded in his bedroom in Higashikitazawa with Mount Fuji just visible in the distance. He recorded with the windows open, so typhoon thunder, cicadas and the city’s 5 o’clock bell all made it into the mix. Together they form a two-album diary of loss and love from his two and a half years in Japan: arriving, rooting, saying goodbye.
Now back in London, he is playing live and working on a new album.
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TECH
Solo. Two inputs:
1. Acoustic guitar: balanced XLR out from Red Eye Twin preamp (no DI needed)
2. Vocal mic
Venue to provide: one vocal mic (SM58 or similar) on a boom stand, two XLR cables, one monitor wedge.
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CONTACT
Bookings and press: elpcarvajal@gmail.com
Instagram Bandsintown elicarvajal.com
Photos by Galya Budagova, Declan Haughian, Isabelle Offer and Li Li Ren.