MARA MARA is my first album, currently in progress and planned for release soon. It emerged from field recordings and compositions made during a residency at Pedvale Sculpture Park, Latvia, in November 2024, where the late-autumn landscape metamorphosis became the source of the music.
Guided by MΔra as a life-giving mother deity in Latvian mythology, and by parallel in other traditions Mara as a force of life and death, the work holds this duality: decay and renewal, grief and love, solitude and union. The album weaves landscape recordings with harp, piano, voice and singing bowls.