Amsterdam-based alternative soul musician, Mar Omin (previously known as Mar), takes a tender step towards his debut album, Extricate, with the dark, reflective single “Little Bird”. Inspired by intimate journal entries that revealed a cycle of self-hate, the song comes across as a cathartic lamentation that is unyielding in its slowly seeping expanse.
The song mixes various analog and digital sounds for a more ambient soundscape that is tethered together by an unassertive beat that lays dormant beneath the surface of the fluttering strings, synthesizers, and falsetto vocals. There’s a dance-like quality to the way the notes slowly cascade through space and time like light, airy feathers gradually reaching towards more solid ground.
“‘Little Bird’ is about the interaction I experience between me and my negative self-belief, personified” Mar Omin reflects. “How the negativity wants to keep me insecure and feeling low and feeds off that energy. The vocals in the verses and the bridge represent me, the pre hooks and hooks are the voice of the negative me.”
If this song stems from Mar Omin’s therapeutic healing process, it’s safe to say that there is a lot of hurt to sift through as we fall through the darkness. At the same time that it has the gentleness of a folk tune, you get the cinematic scope of the synthesizers and bass that rumble like thunder and lightning in the far-off distance. Like a storm, it’s atmospheric and requires a level of patience to weather the impending darkness – but the song’s rewards are great with something grande and heartfelt that resonates deeply in the chest.
“Little Bird” is available on major streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music and on the Alchemical Records Multigenre Mixture Playlist on Spotify.
Charlie Maybee is a dancer, musician, educator, and writer based in Charleston, South Carolina who currently teaches with the Dance Program at the College of Charleston. His primary work as an artist is with his performing collective, Polymath Performance Project, through which he makes interdisciplinary performance art that centers tap dance as the primary medium of expression and research. He also currently plays rhythm guitar for the Charleston-based punk band, Anergy, and releases music as a solo artist under the name Nox Eterna.
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