| Mariam The Believer |
Love Everything |
| Moshi Moshi Records (EU), Repeat Until Death (Scandinavia) |
20 Oct/ Nov 3rd, 2017 |
Mariam The Believer — Love Everything (20 Oct 2017) 
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Birth name: Mariam Karolina Riahi Wallentin
Born: 28. July 1982 in Örebro
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Genre: Scratchy, screamy pop, Indie Pop
Album release: 20 Oct/ Nov 3rd, 2017
Record Label: Moshi Moshi Records (EU), Repeat Until Death (Scandinavia)
Duration: 43:19
Tracks:
01 Opening 3:26
02 Eternity 6:24
03 Pieces 3:56
04 Bodylife 5:16
05 Darkening 4:42
06 Bullies 5:09
07 Treasures 4:06
08 Total 4:14
09 Crust 6:06
℗ 2017 Repeat Until Death
DESCRIPTION
•★• Love Everything on LP
•★• LP version. In addition to her solo work as Mariam The Believer, Mariam Wallentin is one half of vocal~and~drum~duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums with husband Andreas Werliin. She is also a founding member and composer in Fire! Orchestra. The follow up to 2013’s debut album — the critically acclaimed ‘Blood Donation’ released on Moshi Moshi ? ‘Love Everything’ is written, produced and self~released on Mariam Wallentin’s own label Repeat Until Death.. Equipped with her courageously uncompromising approach to music~making Wallentin started Mariam the Believer to focus her expression into a pop project. In total 15 musicians collaborated on the album, resulting in songs that twist and turn evolving organically with each contribution. From vocalist virtuoso Sofia Jernberg to drone experimentalist Oren Ambarchi and free form jazz star Mats Gustavsson, it’s an eclectic roll call, yet despite that Love Everything is at it’s very core, a collection of pure pop melodies. On ‘Love Everything’, she let’s melodies lead the way ? the piano flowing with harmonies that emphasise Wallentin’s powerful and at times raw, honest voice. The songs are ripe, ready to be eaten, before metamorphosing into new structures and an unexpected richness. Power ballads are interrupted by a change of rhythms. En~chanting vocals turn into pulsating R’n’B, new opportunities are lurking behind every corner. In Wallentin’s lyricism, the heart is a muscle pumping blood. Approaching spiritual subjects rooted in the human body and nature, she pulls esoteric themes into a context and reaches dizzying heights.
Notes
By Paul Bridgewater / 25 MAY 2017, 08:00 BST
•≥•≥ It’s been almost four years since Mariam the Believer’s force~of~nature debut Blood Donation.
•≥•≥ While we got another Wildbirds & Peacedrums record in that time, the follow~up to one of 2013’s most outstanding albums has taken its time but Love Everything is here. New track “Pieces” is the second track to tease the autumn release and it’s a homage to the melodies of Mariam Wallentin’s teenage years such as “What’s Goin’ On” and “Strange Fruit”. Led by a funk~infused vocal, the song’s as soulful as anything she’s ever done, by turns exuding confidence and questioning with each rise and fall.
•≥•≥ It’s a song about “all that will fall, which is everything...but then there is something new,” Wallentin tells us.”[It’s also] a song about being judged and feeling locked in and wanting to break free. An anthem, yes another song about hope, because that is life. And to live is to love. And we can be Everything.”
•≥•≥ https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/
Bandcamp: https://mariamthebeliever.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MariamTheBeliever/
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| Mariam The Believer |
Love Everything |
| Moshi Moshi Records (EU), Repeat Until Death (Scandinavia) |
20 Oct/ Nov 3rd, 2017 |
Birth name: Mariam Karolina Riahi Wallentin
Born: 28. July 1982 in Örebro
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Genre: Scratchy, screamy pop, Indie Pop
Album release: 20 Oct/ Nov 3rd, 2017
Record Label: Moshi Moshi Records (EU), Repeat Until Death (Scandinavia)
Duration: 43:19
Tracks:
01 Opening 3:26
02 Eternity 6:24
03 Pieces 3:56
04 Bodylife 5:16
05 Darkening 4:42
06 Bullies 5:09
07 Treasures 4:06
08 Total 4:14
09 Crust 6:06
℗ 2017 Repeat Until Death
•★• Love Everything on LP
•★• LP version. In addition to her solo work as Mariam The Believer, Mariam Wallentin is one half of vocal~and~drum~duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums with husband Andreas Werliin. She is also a founding member and composer in Fire! Orchestra. The follow up to 2013’s debut album — the critically acclaimed ‘Blood Donation’ released on Moshi Moshi ? ‘Love Everything’ is written, produced and self~released on Mariam Wallentin’s own label Repeat Until Death.. Equipped with her courageously uncompromising approach to music~making Wallentin started Mariam the Believer to focus her expression into a pop project. In total 15 musicians collaborated on the album, resulting in songs that twist and turn evolving organically with each contribution. From vocalist virtuoso Sofia Jernberg to drone experimentalist Oren Ambarchi and free form jazz star Mats Gustavsson, it’s an eclectic roll call, yet despite that Love Everything is at it’s very core, a collection of pure pop melodies. On ‘Love Everything’, she let’s melodies lead the way ? the piano flowing with harmonies that emphasise Wallentin’s powerful and at times raw, honest voice. The songs are ripe, ready to be eaten, before metamorphosing into new structures and an unexpected richness. Power ballads are interrupted by a change of rhythms. En~chanting vocals turn into pulsating R’n’B, new opportunities are lurking behind every corner. In Wallentin’s lyricism, the heart is a muscle pumping blood. Approaching spiritual subjects rooted in the human body and nature, she pulls esoteric themes into a context and reaches dizzying heights.
Notes
By Paul Bridgewater / 25 MAY 2017, 08:00 BST
•≥•≥ It’s been almost four years since Mariam the Believer’s force~of~nature debut Blood Donation.
•≥•≥ While we got another Wildbirds & Peacedrums record in that time, the follow~up to one of 2013’s most outstanding albums has taken its time but Love Everything is here. New track “Pieces” is the second track to tease the autumn release and it’s a homage to the melodies of Mariam Wallentin’s teenage years such as “What’s Goin’ On” and “Strange Fruit”. Led by a funk~infused vocal, the song’s as soulful as anything she’s ever done, by turns exuding confidence and questioning with each rise and fall.
•≥•≥ It’s a song about “all that will fall, which is everything...but then there is something new,” Wallentin tells us.”[It’s also] a song about being judged and feeling locked in and wanting to break free. An anthem, yes another song about hope, because that is life. And to live is to love. And we can be Everything.”
•≥•≥ https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/
Bandcamp: https://mariamthebeliever.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MariamTheBeliever/
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