Friday, August 23, 2019
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
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
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
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
credits
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
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
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Monday, May 13, 2019
Full artwork for "See Through" by Aidan Baker/Faith Coloccia/Jon Mueller
You can get the record in the US HERE
And from Gizeh Records HERE
You can purchase some of the original paintings from the release HERE
And from Gizeh Records HERE
You can purchase some of the original paintings from the release HERE
(flood print image not used in the final vinyl version)
From Gizeh records:
See Through is a new collaboration between Aidan Baker (Nadja), Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, Mara, Sige Records) and renowned percussionist Jon Mueller.
The project was brought to life through Baker exploring textural rhythms created by sampling small, sharp and abrupt sounds on the electric guitar and then sequencing them in a drum machine to form the bedrock of the tracks. Mueller then added his particular, signature brand of intricate, hypnotic percussion to the mix and the compositions began to grow and take shape. The pair agreed that the pieces needed a more human touch and Coloccia was invited onboard, contributing processed vocals via looping, tape manipulation and microphone feedback.
The result is an other-worldly record that seamlessly flows from beginning to end, immersing the listener in waves of ambient movements and soporific beats. There is a trance-inducing aspect to this work, deserving to be consumed in one sitting and allowed to manifest itself for the duration. The trio have crafted a piece of work that stands up to the quality and integrity of their combined back catalogues and indeed adds something completely new for fans to discover and devour.
The project was brought to life through Baker exploring textural rhythms created by sampling small, sharp and abrupt sounds on the electric guitar and then sequencing them in a drum machine to form the bedrock of the tracks. Mueller then added his particular, signature brand of intricate, hypnotic percussion to the mix and the compositions began to grow and take shape. The pair agreed that the pieces needed a more human touch and Coloccia was invited onboard, contributing processed vocals via looping, tape manipulation and microphone feedback.
The result is an other-worldly record that seamlessly flows from beginning to end, immersing the listener in waves of ambient movements and soporific beats. There is a trance-inducing aspect to this work, deserving to be consumed in one sitting and allowed to manifest itself for the duration. The trio have crafted a piece of work that stands up to the quality and integrity of their combined back catalogues and indeed adds something completely new for fans to discover and devour.
PERSONNEL:
Aidan Baker - Guitar and Fx
Faith Coloccia - Vocals and FX
Jon Mueller - Drums and Percussion
Mixed by Randall Dunn at Figure 8 Studios in NY.
Artwork and design by Faith Coloccia
Aidan Baker - Guitar and Fx
Faith Coloccia - Vocals and FX
Jon Mueller - Drums and Percussion
Mixed by Randall Dunn at Figure 8 Studios in NY.
Artwork and design by Faith Coloccia
PRESS:
"Splices space-rock twinkle to a clanging beat with the comforting (ir)regularity of a distant freight train" The Wire
"Splices space-rock twinkle to a clanging beat with the comforting (ir)regularity of a distant freight train" The Wire
Artwork for Barnett + Coloccia
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Paintings and LP available
Here: https://sige.bigcartel.com/product/baker-coloccia-mueller-see-through-lp
"See Through" is a record I made with Jon Mueller and Aidan Baker on Gizeh Records (UK)
"See Through" is a record I made with Jon Mueller and Aidan Baker on Gizeh Records (UK)
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