Mára interview on Concrete Shelves

Interview HERE

Happy release day! Daniel Menche and Mára

Happy release day to Daniel Menche! "Melting Gravity" is available now! available at:
BANDCAMP
MERCHTABLE
BOOMKAT

Happy release day to Mára (Faith Coloccia)! "Here Behold Your Own" is available now! available at:
BANDCAMP
MERCHTABLE
BOOMKAT

Mára booking in Europe by Swamp Booking

Mára is now booked by Swamp Booking in the EU. Thank you Giorgio and Swamp Booking.giorgio@swampbooking.com

New Mára record: "Here Behold Your Own" available for Pre-order from SIGE

Mára "Here Behold Your Own"

Side A: A New Young Birth 
Side B: Sangre de Cristo 

Available for pre-order HERE.
Available at SIGE HERE.

Preview a track HERE.

Mára is the solo project of Faith Coloccia, the hermetic composer, songwriter, and vocalist who has a central figure in numerous projects including Mamiffer and her ongoing collaborations with Alex Barnett. Her arrangements for piano, organ, electronics, guitar, and voice often take the form of deconstructed plainsongs, as elegant variations of a melody that smolder and dissolve into heavy-lidded assemblages of shadow, fog, and echo. As Mára, she continues with her signature aesthetics, while laying bare the emotional core of her being. 

Here Behold Your Own follows the very limited Surfacing cassette from 2015. The album began to take shape shortly upon the conception of her son and evolved to encompass her becoming a mother in conjunction with the re-engineering of her creative processes. Coloccia reflects upon the album’s origins, stating “ A lot of the material that I used to make this record felt like the last glimpses of ‘me’ before I became another me. Almost as soon as I conceived I felt the old me slipping away, and so these recordings and photographs were like the last time spent with myself before I changed.”

Mára’s melodies draw from the lullabies that Coloccia would sing to her son. Dating back many years, she has employed the...  more

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releases September 13, 2019

Side A: A New Young Birth
Side B: Sangre de Cristo

Recorded and mixed by Faith Coloccia 2018 on Vashon Island WA
Using cassette recordings from 2015-2018
Mastered by Randall Dunn

Mára "Here Behold Your Own"

Coming out in September on SIGE records

Mára shows this month

2 Mára shows are coming up with Nordra (Monika Khot), Daniel Menche, and Thalassa (Aaron Turner and William Fowler Collins)

Mára interview and show preview

Mára interview and show preview in The Stranger. Mára performs this Friday in Seattle at Debacle Fest 2016 - Friday Evening at Columbia City Theatre:

http://www.thestranger.com/music/2016/05/11/24064383/beauty-and-debacle-or-benot-pioulard-and-mras-quest-for-transcendence

Mára live debut

Happy to have my live debut as Mára in this year's Debacle Fest 2016 - Friday night in Seattle  5-13-14 at the Columbia City Theater.  Tickets: http://debaclefest.com

Mamiffer and Mára feature in the March issue of The WIRE

This is Mamiffer and Mára's first feature in The WIRE magazine, You can see it in the March 2016 issue with good friends Boris on the cover.

And here is a review for Mára's Surfacing at Brainwashed

Mára "Surfacing" artwork

The artwork for the Mára record "Surfacing" released December 2015.
The cassette is housed in a letterpress cover, with 8x 2 sided color photo cards.
All artwork by Faith Coloccia. 

Edition of 100, there's 15 left!

You can get the cassette HERE
And the digital HERE
LP version may come out later this year.

Mára Press: 

Press for: Mára "Surfacing"

-The WIRE video premiere
-Faith Coloccia interview with Scene Point Blank
-FACT Magazine premiere
-ATTN Magazine UK
-Black magazine
-Ponto Alternativo

New interview and group exhibition

Heres a new interview I did with Scene Point Blank:

http://www.scenepointblank.com/features/music/pass-mic-artists-on-2015/9/

Excerpt: 

6. How relevant is the physical format record/cd/tape in 2015 and going into 2016? What do you see changing in terms of physical vs. digital discussions?

I have no idea! I am open to all possibilities about formats. It seems that regardless of PR, record sales, or digital formats, people are incredibly inspired, and are making amazing, and challenging music. I still have a fondness for the physical format, and producing that. Especially with SIGE's hand made releases. I like to know and feel that part of the artist's presence is still in and has interacted with the commodified object. That the personal can reach out to touch the listener through the physical format.

Although: I also really like knowing that someone far away who cannot get the physical release or afford it, can be touched by hearing the human voice come through foreign computer speakers, that the spirit of creation and the human pulse can still be felt through bad connections, broken systems and murky digital streams of capitalism. So I am hopeful that regardless of what format a release is on, that people still believe in the power of music, and the communities it helps foster and create.

My artwork will be included in this group exhibition curated by Amelia Ishmael in the Sector Project space next year:

http://sector2337.com/exhibits/#bleeding-black-noise

Mára "Surfacing" out today

Mára "Surfacing" is out today!

You can get the digital HERE
https://sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/surfacing

and the cassette here at SIGE records
http://sige.bigcartel.com/product/mara-surfacing-cassette

Mára track premiere on Fact Magazine

You can hear "The Gift of Life" at FACT magazine today:

http://www.factmag.com/2015/12/09/faith-coloccia-mamiffer-debut-album-mara-gift-of-life/

Mára video premiere at The Wire Magazine

“Love And Infinity” by Māra from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo.

Mára song on the radio

1st Mára song on the radio! Tonight on Resonance FM.  The Wire: Adventures In Sound and Music . LDN 104.4fm 

The record "Surfacing" comes out in December on SIGE records.