 Debut solo album by IAMTHEMORNING singer-songwriter with Jordan Rudess, Craig Blundell, Nick Beggs
Format: CD / Cat No: KSCOPE661 / Released: 16/03/2020
Track Listing: 1. Dark Matter (03:12) / 2. Am I Sleeping Or Am I Dead (04:27) / 3. Turn Back Time (04:06) / 4. Ars Longa Vita Brevis (03:03) / 5. Invisible (03:07) / 6. Lost At Sea (04:59) / 7. Skin (04:52) / 8. How To Be Alone (02:50) / 9. Everything Burns (03:14) / 10. Mermaid Song (04:32) / 11. Still Life (04:08)
More information: Following the success of four highly-praised albums with IAMTHEMORNING, the lyricist, singer and co-songwriter Marjana Semkina releases her spellbinding debut solo album, Sleepwalking. Characterised by her composed and unique voice, complex melodic lines and poetic lyrics with literary references, Semkina has often compared favourably with Kate Bush. The new material draws from the Iamthemorning soundscape but exists fully in Mariana's world; a compelling mixture of alternative folk, pop, drama, beauty and emotionally purging lyrics. A blend akin to the darker folk of Aldous Harding, Marissa Nadler, Sumie and Florist.
To aid the recording of Marjana's vision for Sleepwalking, she invited the participation of Jordan Rudess, Craig Blundell, Nick Beggs and the St. Petersburg Orchestra, “1703" and frequent collaborator Vlad Avy.
The album artwork makes reference to Semkina's love for classical art, unifying photography with the 17th-Century Vanitas movement; a genre of still-life painting that includes objects symbolic of death's inevitability and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures, exhorting the viewer to consider mortality. The album's music echoes the questions posed by the artwork, it is stripped down to raw emotion: no sugar-coating, no filters, just creative thought caught in the moment.
CD in sleevepac with 16 page booklet.
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