Mariam The Believer (of Wildbirds and Peacedrums) shares 'Above The World' video
Having set the agenda with the phenomenal "Invisible Giving" and the singles "The String Of Everything" and "Something Else", Mariam The Believer kicks off 2014 with a new release and a European tour. Taken from her intoxicating album Blood Donation – "..free jazz colliding with psychedelia, folktronica with the musical influence of her Iranian ancestry” Sunday Times – "Above The World" is another unbridled example of Mariam’s extraordinary talent. Watch it below...
Best known as one half of the critically acclaimed Scandinavian pop duo Wildbirds and Peacedrums, Mariam Wallentin takes on the guise of Mariam The Believer for her first solo outing. Blood Donation has won plaudits across the board with the likes the likes of MOJO calling it “..a fertile new style of blues-soul shakedown....leaving Wallentin room to let fly with a spread of vocal incantations.”
“I was influenced by Alice Coltrane”, says Mariam “and this sort of free, spiritual warm music. I think quite a lot in images when I’m writing a song..if it’s cold, if it’s warm, light, dark…Alice Coltrane was one thing and Mark Hollis (Talk, Talk) too”.
Mariam's European tour includes three shows in London this month:
FEBRUARY
15 - Luxembourg (EXIT07)
16 - Amsterdam (Paradiso)
17 - Cologne (Theater der Wohngemeinschaft)
18 - Brussels (Witloof Bar)
19 - London (Electrowerkz) (Tickets)
20 - London (NME Awards Show @ The Garage w/ Au Revoir Simone) (Tickets)
22 - London (Rise Festival @ Roundhouse) (Tickets)
24 - Berlin (Privatclub)
25 - Prague (Palac Akropolis)
26 - Numberg (MUZ)
27 - Schorndorf (Manufaktur)
MARCH
1 - Zurich (Theater Moods)
2 - Bern (Bee-flat)
3 - Offenbach (Hafen 2)
4 - Hamburg (Aalhaus)
