Maud The Moth announces new album ‘The Distaff’
MAUD THE MOTH has announced a new album!
Titled The Distaff, the upcoming album from the solo project of Spanish-born and Scotland-based pianist, singer and songwriter Amaya Lopez-Carromero, is the follow-up to 2020’s Orphnē, and is scheduled to be released in February next year, via The Lavarium.
Written and arranged by Amaya, with some contributions in the later role from the a number of collaborators, the album presents nine tracks originally written entirely on acoustic piano as accompanied voice pieces, in pure singer-songwriter fashion. The album was co-produced and recorded by Scott McLean [ASHENSPIRE, HEALTHYLIVING, FALLOCH] and Amaya in different studios across the UK between January and July of 2024, in a process that started shortly after the 2020 pandemic and finished alongside the album recordings in a detailed, organic and at times obsessive process aimed primarily at capturing the natural dynamics and expression of free performance. The Distaff was mixed in its entirety by Scott and mastered at Abbey Road by Alex Wharton [RADIOHEAD, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, AURORA, KATHRYN JOSEPH etc].
Alongside the announcement of the new album, MAUD THE MOTH has released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Siphonophores.
Speaking about the new song, MAUD THE MOTH shares, “I wrote Siphonophores on guitar, during the first lockdown, a period where I was kind of trapped between an almost empty flat in Edinburgh and Dresden. It was an incredibly harrowing time, but also one of hope and where important new things were being birthed. I felt incredibly sensitive to everything, almost like life was happening in slow motion. I´m not a confident guitarist since I am completely self-taught, but, probably because of this, I feel that this instrument allows me to focus on aspects of the songwriting that I normally overlook when writing on piano, and I think it was a necessary step for this song to exist. Something else which I’ve been really exploiting lately and features strongly in the album is the percussive capabilities of the piano, and in particular, of the sustain pedal when mic’d up. This can be heard very clearly at the beginning of Siphonophores.”
Filmographer Elena Brea adds, “the creation is a visual expression of the different stages of self-introspection when meeting, fighting and overcoming this burden and load we bare. From unawareness and denial, to agitation, shock and pain, to then ingestion, acceptance and forgiveness, to embrace all these parts of ourselves and reach peace in the path towards self discovery, self love and self care, instead of slight & neglect.”
Watch the official music video for Siphonophores here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Canto de enramada
2. A temple By The river
3. Exuviae
4. Burial Of The patriarchs
5. Siphonophores
6. Despeñaperros
7. O Rubor
8. Fiat Lux
9. Kwisatz Haderach
The Distaff is set for release on February 21st via The Lavarium. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
For more information on MAUD THE MOTH like her official page on Facebook.
