Maria BC - Amber (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- From the album "Spike Field"
Out now on Sacred Bones Records
Listen / buy here: lnk.to/SpikeField
Video by Maria BC
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In the early 1990s, a team of linguists, engineers, anthropologists, and archaeologists were tasked with constructing a type of communication that could transcend time. How might we converse with future civilizations when language may evolve or dissolve entirely? The result yielded the design of spike fields; a strange construction of granite thorns bursting from the earth to alert its viewers to the deadly uninhabitability of nuclear waste disposal sites. For Maria BC (they/them), this state of temporal focus molds the wanderings on their second full length album Spike Field. How do we connect with the weathered shadow of our experience, while envisioning the self a few steps ahead of us? While their debut album Hyaline (2022, Father/Daughter) explored grief and anxiety through a series of character-led accounts, Spike Field recognizes that mistakes, tragedies and embarrassments will continue to lurk below the surface until we decide to break through the soil.
Spike Field was recorded in the home of a family friend. The home featured an out-of-tune baby Steinway piano, complete with squeaky hammers and strange, sporadic sounds. The piano is sprinkled throughout the album, and features extensively on opener “Amber,” showcasing Maria BC’s looser, more extensive arrangements. The song flickers with electronic wonder, like a wave seeking out its station, before crashing into the angelic choral introduction of “Watcher”. Strings, plucked guitar and buzzing swells accompany their classically-trained mezzo-soprano voice on “Return to Sender,” a song that focuses on the frustrations and turmoil of being unable to reach a loved one--both physically and emotionally. Spike Field reminds us that despite our best efforts to bury certain aspects of ourselves, they will always lurk beneath the surface. Instead of ignoring the seeds striving to break through, we can point to these places with a curious grace, concocting a language that transcends words to converse with our previous selves. Maria BC pieces together juxtaposing sonic landscapes and oscillating vocals to represent the thread of miscommunication, or the failure of words, that weaves throughout the album, transforming it into a distinct and ever-evolving sonic tongue. If we listen, we might find something new within ourselves.
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Pretty cool. I've never heard of this before but I really love this kind of vibes both in the song and video
The fact that she suffers from multiple personality and still manages to write such beautiful music it's a huge accomplishment.
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multiple p disorder right ? haha yet this tune is so michael hedges
fantastic ✨
Yo... this is the perfect song to start Autumn with! Glad I found it! Pre-added the album 🍂
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Maria BC - Amber (Official Video) 1541pm 29.8.23 not my cup of tea but preferable over other stuff... so... aye.... kindda vespers sounding... is this music spliced genuinely composed?
Was set to purchase until i saw they/them in the bio….
cool beans, that's what we call an "inside thought" 🙄 get bent bozo
thank you for kindly indicating what dreadful company you are so no one need waste time finding out for themselves
@@seanbharper Yeah, I always appreciate someone just slapping on that sticker that says, "Hi, I'm an utter sh!t with horrible and hateful opinions about how I think other human beings should live their lives." I just can't fathom being so self absorbed and hateful that I would need to publicly comment that I initially liked something enough to purchase it, but changed my mind once discovering that the artist that made it did not cater to my own myopic world view that I adopted from some online reactionary talking head. I wonder why the change? The commenter obviously enjoyed it before based on the comment, so are they so insecure that they worry what other people may think if they enjoy music made by someone who may not be Cis/Het or that identifies somewhat differently than they do? What a terrible way to live one's life, casting off things you enjoy because of opinions others have told them to have. It also must be terribly boring for them to see the world in such an either/or, black/white, chocolate/vanilla, he/she, this/that manner. How many wonderful people, places, things, art, experiences, and so much more would a person automatically lock oneself away from? What a shame. I hope that @ryanspeight6839 can learn in time to appreciate the world and the people temporary occupying it for what it actually is, not black or white, but these really lovely shades of gray.
Dislike someone because they are rude. Harbor animosity towards someone that did you dirty. Hold a negative opinion about a person who treats others poorly. Don't dislike and slight other for simply existing and being themselves and trying to live their lives the best they know how. Lift those people up. Embrace them for being wonderfully unique. Let them know they are not alone. Befriend someone completely different than yourself and broaden your horizons. I guarantee your life will be better for it, @ryanspeight6839.
@@jeremysmith4620 wow! What a hefty resposnse! Maria is a girls name.
Out of all the problems in the world, imagine being offended by something like that.