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Mazy Fly

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Philip Graham More haunting musical landscapes that only Spellling can travel. Favorite track: Haunted Water.
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holdh Haunting and beautiful, an all together fantastic collection of songs. Absolutely love Haunted Water and Afterlife! Favorite track: Haunted Water.
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rikm On "Mazy Fly", Spellling has crafted an excellent collection of songs that sound uniquely her own, separate from style, separate from genre, carving their own space in the musical sphere.

Don't get me wrong, there are elements and sounds and phrases here that remind the listener of other things, there's a feeling of influence, but it's filtered, refined and made into something new, something fresh and distinct.

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Haunted Water 04:50
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Hard to Please 02:08
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Golden Numbers 02:44
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Melted Wings 01:52
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Under the Sun 05:55
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Real Fun 03:32
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Hard to Please (Reprise) 03:34
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Afterlife 05:24
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Dirty Desert Dreams 02:32
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Secret Thread 05:06
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Falling Asleep 02:45
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about

Mazy Fly, the second full-length by the Bay Area artist SPELLLING, explores the tension between the thrill of exploring the unknown and the terror of imminent destruction. Chrystia Cabral spent the summer of 2018 in her Berkeley studio reflecting on the thresholds of human progress and longing for a new and better tomorrow. She was struck by the way the same technologies that have given humans the ability to achieve utopian dreams of discovery have also brought the world to the precipice of dystopic global devastation. Despite the darkness of this reality, Mazy Fly is defiantly optimistic. It is a celestial voyage into the unknown, piloted by Cabral.

Each song on Mazy Fly enshrines distinct sentiments within this imagined voyage, from the deeply personal (“Hard to Please Reprise”) to the cosmic (aliens travel to Earth to hear music on “Real Fun”). “Haunted Water” is an intensely heavy song about the memories of colonial violence that haunt the historical slave ship routes of the Middle Passage. “Under the Sun” is a cosmic prayer for good fortune that sees the potential for radical newness in our own lives in the births of stars.

Mazy Fly musically traverses the spaces between languid, honey-soaked vocals and distant angelic whispers, from thumping 808 club beats to crunching tape loops, and from silky, smooth R&B to whirling organ sonatas. Cabral became enamored by the idea of flight as a harbinger of both progress and apocalypse, and that was expressed in the textures and compositional techniques she utilized. Swarms, flocks, flies, angels, spaceships, flying saucers – all are represented sonically by Cabral and her Juno-106 synthesizer.

“Secret Thread” is the key to this motif, and the heart of Mazy Fly. When Cabral saw her puppy Cooper running gracefully around an open field, she imagined a winged spirit moving through her new music. She named the spirit, and the album, Mazy Fly.

SPELLLING’s 2017 debut Pantheon of Me was Bandcamp’s #4 album of the year, and they raved: “Cabral has it, from her careful sense of composition to her charismatic presence to her ability to communicate with her music straight through to the listener’s heart.” Her first release on Sacred Bones, the “Hard to Please” single, was named a Best Track by The Guardian, who said the song was “like Solange looking in a haunted mirror.”

credits

released February 22, 2019

All songs written and produced by SPELLLING

Performed by SPELLLING except:
Violin and Saxophone by Divya Farias
Percussion by Jacob Richards on Real Fun, Hard to Please (reprise), After Life, and Mazy Fly
Percussion by Janak Preston on Dirty Desert Dreams
Guitar by Andrea Genevieve on Real Fun

All songs mastered by Mike Johnson and Jonny Esser at Antiquity Records in Oakland, CA
Electric guitar, saxophone, and violin recorded at Antiquity Records in Oakland, CA

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