‘Your music is brilliant, full of winds and messages of the soul!’
Giorgos Dimitriadis
The sensual, otherworldly soundscapes found on Mahri Autumn’s Ri-Solv reveal plenty about digital-era music-making: while the bulk of the album was crafted by Autumn in her Wollongong home studio, embellishments were added by Brian Siskind, in New York, without actually meeting the gifted Ms Autumn. He also mixed the album. And if it’s indeed possible to sound familiar yet new at the same time, Autumn has achieved just that, as she channels such timeless voices as Linda Thompson and Sandy Denny, while simultaneously nodding in the direction of 21st century free spirits Ani DiFranco and Sarah Blasko, amongst others.
—Jeff Apter, author of A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley
mahri autumn is the project of multiinstrumentalist, singer songwriter and composer Marianthe Loucataris.
The first album ri-solv is due for release Febuary 2010.
The music defies boundaries.
It is a Radical Integration of my diverse cultural heritage and creative experience
including indie rock, classical, folk, traditional Egyptian/world music and sound design.
The lyrics are melodic mantras embedded in complex rhythmic structures.
Love, death, transformation, gender, religion and politics laid bare.
Created largely on my own but with inspiration, sound additions, mixing and mastering from New York based musician/producer Brian Siskind (FOGNODE) via email, without a single “conversation” (we met on myspace)
(Siskind has also worked with Michael Schrieve (Santana), Bat for Lashes and Clare Burson)
Formed in the ether between the cultural frontier (Wollongong) and one of the centres of global culture (NYC).
The result is stunning!
I have contributed broadly to the Australian arts scene through music, dance, theatre and cross artform work.
My band work includes 4 years with J Walker and machine translations, including national and international touring,
as well as countless bands in various roles.
I studied traditional Egyptian percussion with drum master Ibrahim el Minyawi. I continue to play and teach this
intricate and beautiful form of rhythm. These rhythms inform the basis of much of my music.
Currently performing solo and with a revolving crew of talented musicians The Chameleon Collective.
Short listed for the APRA professional development awards in 2008.
Interest from a music licencing company in the U.S.
Featured with my first video on the Metropolis ArtPrize on Babelgum.
Being played on a number of community radio stations around the country.
150,000 hits on the you-tube channel.
I have been holed up in an unassuming suburban house, perched under the astounding Mt Keira, surrounded by exotic percussive instruments, permanently plugged into my Mac and obsessively watching my inbox for too long.
It is time to head out of the studio and offer ri-solv to the world ; )
‘The sensual, otherworldly soundscapes found on Mahri Autumn’s Ri-Solv reveal plenty about digital-era music-making: while the bulk of the album was crafted by Autumn in her Wollongong home studio, embellishments were added by Brian Siskind, in New York, without actually meeting the gifted Ms Autumn. He also mixed the album. And if it’s indeed possible to sound familiar yet new at the same time, Autumn has achieved just that, as she channels such timeless voices as Linda Thompson and Sandy Denny, while simultaneously nodding in the direction of 21st century free spirits Ani DiFranco and Sarah Blasko, amongst others.’
—Jeff Apter, author of A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley
Mahri Autumn defiesmusical boundaries.
A natural integration of folk, indie rock, classical, world music & sound design.
The lyrics are melodic mantras embedded in complex rhythmic structures.
Love, death, transformation, gender, religion and politics laid bare.
Created largely on my own but with inspiration, sound additions, mixing and mastering from New York based musician/producer Brian Siskind (FOGNODE) (Siskind has also worked with Michael Schrieve (Santana), Bela Fleck and Clare Burson as well as having a wonderful body of his own work)
Formed in the ether between the cultural frontier (Wollongong, Australia) and one of the centres of global culture (NYC). The result is something other than either.
I have been holed up in an unassuming suburban house, perched under the astounding Mt Keira, surrounded by exotic percussive instruments, permanently plugged into my Mac and obsessively watching my inbox for too long.
It is time to head out of the studio and offer ri-solv to the world……… I hope you enjoy it : )
