Marjana Semkina announces new album ‘Sirin’

March 27, 2024 James Weaver

MARJANA SEMKINA has announced a new album!

Titled Sirin, the upcoming album from the IAMTHEMORNING vocalist is the follow-up to 2020’s Sleepwalking, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via self-release.

Speaking about the new album, she says, “Sirin is a mythical creature from ancient Slavic mythology, half-bird half-woman, she’s a harbinger of bad luck and death, and it’s believed that if you meet Sirin a big catastrophe will happen – except in case with the events surrounding this album it’s already happened. Sirin cries and mourns for humankind, and nothing can be more appropriate in this day and age. Sirin is one of very few creatures that can travel between worlds – a world of gods of light, a world of dark deities (in some versions an alternative to the underworld) and a world of mortals. This felt appropriate because the album is quite diverse in sound and some might think parts of it sound happy, but the subject matter is almost always quite morbid, which creates a contrast that I enjoy.”

Now permanently based in the UK, MARJANA SEMKINA has been an active campaigner against the Russian occupation in Ukraine and has raised thousands of pounds via her activities to support the victims of war. She will continue her work, including selling a number of a limited run of handwritten lyrics from Sirin, with the money going to Ukrainian charities. Acts punishable by 15 years imprisonment should she return home.

“I was never very political and I always tried to keep my art within the realms of lore, literature and imagination. But when events like the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine happen, it is impossible – and I’d even say, unforgivable – to stay silent and do nothing. Thankfully being based in the UK I feel rather safe speaking out against the current regime and I do have a platform that I can use to try and show the world that Russians disagree with the actions of the Russian government, and there are so many of us that only wish for this to be over. I’m just trying to show it in the most artistic way I can muster.”

Alongside the new announcement of the new album, MARJANA SEMKINA has released a new song from her upcoming album; We Are The Ocean. Speaking about the new song, she shares, “this song was inspired by all of my Russian friends coming out to protest against the war when it started, despite the fact that there was a very good chance they’d get arrested for doing so – a lot did in the end. I wrote lyrics to this song on a train to one of those protests in London, Trafalgar Square in early March 2022.”

Watch the official lyric video for We Are The Ocean here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List:

1. We Are The Ocean
2. Lost But At Peace
3. Anything But Sleep (feat. Jim Grey)
4. Pygmalion
5. Angel Street
6. Gone
7. Death And The Maiden (feat. Mick Moss)
8. The Storm
9. Swan Song
10. This Silence This Dreaming