Maria Arnal finally officially launches her solo project, after having presented it live at festivals such as Sónar. Their album, ‘AMA’, still has no release date, but a first preview, the title track, is now available.
‘AMA’ is a song with a sound that is both primitive and industrial, composed of metallic percussions and vocal polyphonies. Designed together with producers Alizzz and Pau Riutort, ‘AMA’ “deploys a choral architecture composed of 60 vocal layers, recorded, cloned, multiplied and reimagined, until building an invisible choir that sings with her, for her and through her.”
The exciting theme is about an “infinite impulse”, a “force” that guides Arnal, probably towards the expression of his own spirituality. It is an irresistible and inevitable attraction.
Arnal explains: «It is a song that talks about a state of the body, a sensitivity, a blind trust. Ama is dedicated to a very intimate part of my life. Ama is everything I learned from the death of my first cousin, much more sister than cousin, as a result of HIV, which also took her parents, my uncles, in the nineties. Ama are her initials. Love is going back to my 13 years. Ama is a love letter. Ama is polyphony. Ama is your voice and mine. Ama is my lineage of women. Ama, this is me starting this new stage of my career. Love is a start. Ama is a game of mirrors. Love are all the voices inside me. Mistress are all the mistresses that have led me to be who I am. “Ama is my leap of faith.”
‘AMA’, as a whole, is Maria Arnal’s sound research project developed together with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the Intelligent Instruments Lab in Reykjavík, “where Arnal investigates the limits and expansions of the voice in the 21st century.” But beyond the technology, “‘Ama’ is an exercise in emotional truth: a song about how the body remembers, desires and resists, even when broken down into digital frequencies.”
