Album Release 25 september, Crammed/[PIAS].
Release concert Botanique Bxl : 10 november.
In her new album Maïa Vidal offers a personal take on an eternal subject matter: the love story, with all its fluctuations and shifts, its ebb and flow: falling in lov e, being in love, falling out of love. Overflowing with her trademark, soaring melodies, this is the young American singer/songwriter/musician’s most accomplished album to date, an electronic pop opus which was brilliantly produced by Maïa herself, co-produced by Giuliano Cobelli, and mixed by Van Rivers (Glasser, Fever Ray, Matthew Dear).
Maïa played most of the instruments (keyboards, autoharp, violin, guitar, beat programming), with contributions by Giuliano Cobelli (trumpet, per cussion, beats). All these ingredients, alongside Maïa’s moving, humourous and distinctive lyrics, contribute to making You’re The Waves a unique, sensual and fresh album.
* about MAÏA VIDAL
Her debut album God Is My Bike came out in Europe in November 2011. It was nominated for the IMPALA Awards (the pan-European, Indie Album of the Year award), alongside albums by Sigur Ros, Little Dragon and Adele.
After successfully translating her verbal imagery into visuals in her self-directed videos for tracks such as Poison and Alphabet of my Phobias, Maïa collaborated with director Joana Colomar to create a stunning video for Follow Me, loosely based on a Brothers Grimm tale. The video was nominated for Best Pop Video at the UK Music Video Awards (alongside videos by Lana del Rey, Rihanna and Justice). The video and the fan audio uploads of the song Follow Me have now garnered over 1.5 million views on YouTube.
Maïa Vidal werd geboren in de VS, kind van Frans en Japans/Duitse ouders. Ze groeide op in de Amerika, studeerde vervolgens in Montreal en woont inmiddels in Parijs en Barcelona. Vrouw van de wereld. Ze begon ooit een all girl punk-groep en een project waarbij ze nummers van haar punkhelden Rancid vertolkte. Sinds een paar jaar maakt ze onder haar eigen naam een eigenzinnige mix van catchy folky indie-songs en electronics wat haar haar tot een gewildede muziekleverancier van de mode- en filmwereld maakt (cf van DNKY, Siemprevivas tot regisseur Alejandro Amenábar) en 25 september verschijnt haar derde album "You’re The Waves" dat ze zelf producete met hulp van co- Giuliano Cobelli, (mixed door Van Rivers cf Glasser, Fever Ray, Matthew Dear).
Islands of you and me is de nieuwe single en gaat volgens Maia over ‘the romantic side of love’.
Maïa Vidal treedt ook op in de Botanique op 10 november.
