DHARMA

(EP)

‘DHARMA’ EMPHASISES AN EXPLORATION INTO VARIOUS FACETS OF THE MEANDERING NATURE OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS. THROUGH PHILOSOPHICAL, THEMATIC NARRATIVES ENCOMPASSING NOTIONS SUCH AS THE INNATE SEARCH FOR FREEDOM, THE DEEP INTRACACIES OF LOVE AND THE MYSTICISM OF THE NEOLITHIC AGE. ‘DHARMA’ EVOKES AN ETHEREAL LANDSCAPE TO LOSE ONESELF TO, VENTURING FORTH INTO WHAT IT IS TO FEEL, WHAT IT IS TO BE.

SEVEN YEARS

(Single)

‘SEVEN YEARS’ IS A REVERIE, REPRESENTATIVE OF A METAPHYSICAL DAWN. THE SOFT EXPANSION OF INSTRUMENTATION, KINDLES THE LIGHT THAT DISPELS THE STARS AND PARTS THE DARKNESS WITH THE FIRST ILLUMINATION OF AN EMERGING DAY, PALLETING THE MUSIC WITH TRANSCENDENTAL HUES OF A DEEP LONGING. IT ENCAPSULATES CONTEMPLATION, INTROSPECTION AND REFLECTION; A SINEWY BETWEEN A BEGINNING AND END. A COALESCENCE OF AN INFINITE DARKNESS AND AN EMERGING LIGHT, ‘SEVEN YEARS’ SOFTLY TRANSMITS THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SELF AND A LANDSCAPE; OF MEMORIES STORED IN DISTANT PLACES.

TWO WRONGS

(Single)

INSPIRED BY THE TRANSIENT SUBCULTURE OF FREIGHT TRAIN RIDERS THAT SPAN ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE OF AMERICA, “TWO WRONGS’ SYMBOLISES HUMANITIES INNATE, CONTINUOUS SEARCH FOR FREEDOM; FOR A SENSE OF RELEASE AND ESCAPE. THIS SONG GIVES RISE TO THE REVERENT AND UNRELENTING INTENSITY THAT BURNS INSIDE THE HEARTS OF SO MANY AND THEIR YEARNING TO VOYAGE BEYOND THE PERIMETERS OF SOCIETAL CONVENTION, IN STEPPING BEYOND THE CONTROL OF PREDICTABILITY INTO THE UNKNOWN. ‘TWO WRONGS’ EVOKES THE PERPETUAL MOMENTUM OF THE FREIGHT TRAIN, SCORING THROUGH VAST LANDSCAPES OF ARID DESERTS, BARE PINE FORESTS, ILLUMINATED MOUNTAINS AND STRETCHES OF INFINITE STARS REFLECTED IN WIDE HISTORICAL RIVERS. THIS IS A PIECE OF MUSIC THAT CELEBRATES THOSE WHOSE DEVOTION TO WANDERLUST AND TO THE DIRECTION OF THEIR DREAMS, IS AN UNBRIDLED PART OF THEIR IDENTITY.

THE PHOTOGRAPH FOR TWO WRONGS IS TAKEN BY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER MIKE BRODIE, WHO SPENT FOUR YEARS EMBEDDED IN THE TRAIN RIDING SUBCULTURE, AMASSING AN ARCHIVE OF PHOTOGRAPHS THAT MAKE UP ONE OF THE FEW, TRUE COLLECTIONS OF AMERICAN TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY IN ALL ITS RAW GRIT, BEAUTY AND OPENNESS.

“So gracefully evocative and yes, cinematic art. Goosebumps on my soul!”

Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales

All ONE BREATH

(LP)

ALL ONE BREATH IS A COLLECTION OF SONGS THAT WERE WRITTEN AND RECORDED IN THE REMOTE REGIONS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE OVER A THREE MONTH PERIOD AT THE BEGINNING OF LOCKDOWN. LIMITED BY THE CONCISE SELECTION OF INSTRUMENTS AND ANALOGUE EQUIPMENT THAT WOULD FIT INTO THEIR CAR, SAMANA CREATED A LARGE BODY OF RAW, VISCERAL WORK, FROM WHICH EMERGED ‘ALL ONE BREATH’. THE ALBUM JOURNEYS THROUGH A PERIOD OF DEEP REFLECTION, DRAWING UPON CONCEPTS OF DISTANCE, EXPANSION, THE VELOCITY OF TIME AND THE DEEP-FELT APPRECIATION OF LOVE. THE SONGS ENCOMPASS DIFFERENT FIELDS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, THROUGH THE EXPLORATION OF IMPROVISATION, POETRY, PHILOSOPHICAL MUSINGS AND LONG HIKES OFF INTO THE HEART OF THE MOUNTAINS.

“THINK NICO, JARBOE, MAZZY STAR.”

Voted the no.1 psyChedelic folk ALBUM OF 2022

4/5 STARS

-MOJO MAGAZINE