It’s not far fetched to consider BALTHVS as the biggest psychedelic band Colombia has ever produced. Formed in late 2019, with over 140 million streams, five studio albums, 1 live album and twelve EPs, the band has established itself in the global touring circuit, performing across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
They have played more than 26 countries and 98 cities worldwide, appearing at major events including SXSW, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Outside Lands, Electric Forest, Lightning in a Bottle, Montreal Jazz Festival, SXSW Sydney, and Jazz Cafe Festival. The band has also made notable appearances on KEXP, Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Cafe, and the BBC.
BALTHVS continues to push forward with a distinctive blend of psychedelic funk, global grooves, Middle Eastern melodies, spiritual jazz improvisations, and Latin-tinged rhythms
BALTHVS is:
Balthazar Aguirre (Guitar, Vocals)
Johanna Mercuriana (Bass, Vocals)
Santiago Lizcano (Drums, Vocals)
Québec City, QC — Canada
Kallithea, Greece
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Grass Valley, CA — USA
Missoula, MT — USA
Stanley, ID — USA
Columbia, MD — USA
Reykjavík, Iceland
Redmond, OR — USA
Edmonton, Canada
Telluride, CO — USA
London, United Kingdom
Toronto, ON — Canada
Montreal, QC — Canada
Greenfield, MA — USA
Nelsonville, OH — USA
Rothbury, MI — USA
Bogotá, Colombia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Santiago de Chile, Chile
Aspen, CO — USA
Kortrijk, Belgium
Istanbul, Turkey
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dana Point, CA — USA
Seattle, WA — USA
Madison, WI — USA
San Francisco, CA — USA
Volda, Norway
SXSW Austin, TX — USA
SXSW Austin, TX — USA
Bogotá, Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
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30 Jun 2026 BALTHVS exclusive interview with Diffuser and Influencer Megan Glionna
Diffuser
15 Mar 2026
On The Piano With Paul Edward
09 Dec 2025 Set 2: Episode 3 – Balthazar (BALTHVS)
All Jammed Up
13 Nov 2025 BALTHVS Interview and Performance On The PACT Stage @ The Chambers Project
The Chambers Project / PACT
06 Aug 2025 Exclusive WRRV Interview Featuring BALTHVS: Tour, Hudson Valley & More
WRRV
20 Jul 2025 Balthazar Aguirre (BALTHVS) Interview
Let’s Make A Mixtape
15 Jul 2025 An interview with: BALTHVS
ASTRAL Magazine
01 Jul 2025 Balthvs en la transmisión oficial de FEP 2025
Canal Capital
28 Mar 2025 On The Line w/ BALTHVS – Bogotá’s Evolving Concept
Good Call Music
21 Feb 2025 From Colombia to the World: BALTHVS on Innovation Through Sound
All That Jam
23 Jan 2025
Time Out Istanbul
06 Nov 2024 Kolombiya dağlarından Türkiye’ye bir aşk hikayesi: BALTHVS ile büyüleyici bir röportaj
Zorlu PSM
03 Nov 2024 Beyond boundaries: exploring the intimate sonic universe of BALTHVS
IDIOTEQ.com
26 Sep 2024 BALTHVS @OutsideLands An Interview with MARS.TV
MARS TV
05 Sep 2024 Grateful Web Interview with BALTHVS
Grateful Web
21 Aug 2024 Colombia’s BALTHVS bring their psychedelic cumbia to recordBar this Sunday
The Pitch
15 Aug 2024 It’s defying Latin stereotypes’: An Interview With BALTHVS’ Balthazar Aguirre
Sabana Sounds
09 Aug 2024 INTERVIEW: Colombian trio BALTHVS goes on a mystical journey
RIFF Magazine
04 Aug 2024 BALTHVS
EFFECTS PEDAL FAN CLUB
15 Jun 2024 “BALTHVS’ debut in Seattle (3/31)”
KUPS FM “The Sound”
22 Apr 2024 SXSW 2024 Entrevista com a banda colombiana BALTHVS
Zonacurva
04 Apr 2024 BALTHVS SXSW Interview 2024
RadioK770
27 Mar 2024 “BALTHVS – Like Coconut Water”
Starry Mag
06 Feb 2024 Episode 174 Santiago Lizcano (BALTHVS)
The Vineyard Podcast
19 Jan 2024
All That Jam
01 Dec 2023 Interview BALTHVS
Lo Intelectual de la Música
20 Jun 2023 BALTHVS en Distrito Cultural
Distrito cultural – Areandina Radio
07 Jun 2023 BALTHVS – Noisesion (Interview)
NOISESION
10 May 2023
LAUD 90.4 FM ESTÉREO
05 Dec 2022 EL DESCONECTE BALTHVS
RUIDO De FONDO Yissus Cadáver
25 Mar 2022 “BALTHVS: Psicodélicos bichos raros bogotanos”
Zonagirante
10 Mar 2022
Lo Intelectual de la Música
29 Oct 2021 Personas no gratas 1087 Entrevista BALTHVS (Colombia)
PERSONAS NO GRATAS
26 Jul 2021 Entrevista y presentación del álbum MACROCOSM
Payta RadioUnion
21 Apr 2021 Charlas Melomanas con BALTHVS
Organic Plug
13 Apr 2021 Interview with BALTHVS
TRION Zenit con Luis Oleg
31 Mar 2021
La Selva Selva
09 Dec 2020
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 guides emotions: Harmony, Melody and Rhythm create mood, they change vibration. 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.
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