'At Least It Was For Me' / Mara [Premiere]
Have a sneak peak of the first single from Mara’s forthcoming album set to release on October 15th via Music Company.
Equal parts hypnotic and haunting, “At Least It Was For Me" lingers in the liminal sonic spaces between discordant bells, brooding pads and plump field recordings. It is a perfect introduction to the rest of the album The Formation of a Cloud in its establishment of the harmonious tug of war between the organic and electronic that effortlessly becomes a motif in the album while also paying homage to the short-film of the same title for which this sonic body was created.
Keenly, the collection of works by Mara were written for the film directed by Jenn Tran, which, in revisiting a distant childhood memory, navigate a nostalgic journey of rediscovery. The compositions of which “At Least It Was For Me” is the first springboard off this visual storyboard while breathing new life through sound.
Listen to the first single “At Least It Was For Me” premiering on Verve today, below:
Notably, the collaboration with Jenn relays to the heart of this collection of works and “At Least It Was For Me”. While in Naarm in November 2020 they travelled to Solomon’s Ford on Wurundjeri Land where the short-film is set, where they wandered taking field recordings of the water, birds, kids playing and the construction happening across the river. They continue to explain the multi-disciplinary approach to sound making within this process:
“The overlay of live footage and animation prompted a mixing of real and synthetic sounds. Instruments and field recordings are augmented with effects or layered with electronic sounds to create a world somewhere between the remembered and the present.”
Listen to the ethereal sound exploration above, and be sure to pre-order the album on Bandcamp below.
Stay up to date with Mara on Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Instagram, Facebook and maraschwerdtfeger.com
& Music Company on musiccompany.co, Bandcamp, Soundcloud and Instagram.
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