Mira Snelder Netherlands
"Electronic art rock cultivated with sweet pop and cool avantgarde nutrition. Forgive me not finding any good expression but her creation definitely has a great deal of charm. Mira is a Dutch solo artist utilizing digital audio workstation and other instruments. It makes sense via this album that she's been inspired by lots of musical essence like rock, pop, jazz, or classical. Not particularly leaning towards one specific genre, she's created her original soundscape featuring almost all of musical material. Regardless of such a serious title, "Mourning Earth And Wounded Sky" involves apparent emotional delight to the bright future, whilst launching current anxiety or conflict under such a terrible situation.
In general, she technically highlights her fascinating keyboard playing blended with complicatedly percussive (sometimes quirky) synthesizer sounds. Sometimes the electronika sounds like kinda old-fashioned computer game music but this is also good for us (aha I'm a middle-aged guy absorbed in computer games yeah!). The middle part of one of her masterpieces "Wounded Sky" reminds me of something like this, and simultaneously of oldie goodie memories in my young days. Yes today is tough like the grey sky but like her brilliant piano sounds in the first and the last stage things will get better anytime soon - I guess she says so via this suite.
Anyway my favourite track is "The Secret Of Willow Island", that colourful sound treasure box consisting of slightly chemical but heartwarming, beautiful melodic lines and polyrhythmic but acceptable rhythmic bases. Obvious that she provides sorta active music reaction of humanity to us. In "If It Happens Again I Will Know What To Do" we can enjoy her piano-oriented repetitive, plaintive but positive graduation. I suppose "Cormorant And Eagle" would have a suggestion that they live gracefully but do not forget they should survive powerfully, despite the fact the human beings are suffering from such invisible enemies. The collective of her messages should be "You Should Feel So Proud For Making It This Far In Life" a short but dreamy, mystic enlightenment.
This album was released in December 2019 ... she mentions this year be tough for her. And we people all around the world are tough just now. Guess this opus would ring our bells, under the similar situation. Mope rock? No, not at all. Fit for nowadays. Stay safe and fine above all."
