• ABOUT •
Formed in 2020, BALTHVS has grown in just five years to become Colombia’s leading alternative international act. With over 45 million streams on digital platforms, more than 10,000 vinyl records sold, and nine international tours under their belt, the band has performed in 56 cities across 19 countries and three continents, spreading their chill, groovy psychedelic funk sound worldwide. Starting as SXSW alumni and playing the iconic Austin event for three consecutive years (2022, 2023, 2024), BALTHVS has also performed at all major Colombian festivals (Festival Centro, Rock al Parque, Estéreo Picnic) and international festivals like Austin City Limits, Outside Lands, Electric Forest, and SXSW Sydney. They’ve made notable appearances on prestigious radio platforms, including KEXP, Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Café, and the BBC. With four critically acclaimed records under their name, the band is eager to continue their musical journey, delivering their signature relaxing and head-bopping sound.
BALTHVS is:
Balthazar Aguirre (Guitar, Vocals)
Johanna Mercuriana (Bass, Vocals)
Santiago Lizcano (Drums, Vocals)
Pronunciation:
English: bôl + thŭs
Spanish: Bal + tus
Psychedelic, Adj:
From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) + δῆλος (dêlos, “manifest, visible”) + -ic.
Coined by English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1956 in a letter to Aldous Huxley.
"BALTHVS: An Evolving Concept"
The Psychedelic Experience is clearly present but it has mutated into another form: Psychedelic is external, it doesn't come from within, watching a kaleidoscopic 4d film inside your mind, such experiences leave lessons and temporary states of transcendence. Far too many don't go beyond this temporary chemical high, some become forever lost in the trip.
"All Music is Psychedelic"
It generates trance and induces a plethora of emotions: Harmony, Melody and Rhythm create mood, they are definite v i b e changers. Rarely does it divide men from one another , more than anything it unites.
"Imagination Realizes What it Invents"
We are only left with the power of imagination and will to transmute that which lies inside, burdensome thoughts, into alchemical reality. To transmute the psychedelic experience into the Cosmic, in the realm of the Manifest. Our pretensions are only to alleviate the daily toll the mind, the body and spirit take amidst our modern, uncertain world, if only a little bit. Music is medicine, Music is an Escape.
'Chill Out Bro'
If there's just a tiny less bit of anger or anxiety because of this work, the task is done, the purpose is fullfilled, there is no other intention beyond this, it is a means to an end.
If I meditate my family meditates
If I meditate my village meditates
If i meditate the world meditates
If I meditate God meditates
Dec 2022, Balthazar Aguirre
"Birth is not the beginning of life - only of an individual awareness.
Change into another state is not death - only the ending of this awareness."
Cosmic Music for the Psychedelic Mind.
© 2023, BALTHVS Music,
Bogotá, Colombia.