Darkher

Darkness treads light as a feather. The sinister yet beguiling images that DARKHER aka Jayn Maiven paints with her ethereal vocals, guitars, and added strings conjure iridescent cinematic scenes, in which it becomes hard to tell whether there lies beauty in darkness or if it is the other way around.
With her sophomore full-length "The Buried Storm", the West Yorkshire based guitarist, composer, lyricist, and producer has clearly succeeded to even improve the beloved alchemic musical formula that was firmly established on DARKHER's debut album "Realms" in 2016. Her mostly eerie and at times even outright sinister sonic storytelling comes refined on every level. DARKHER have delivered another frightening masterpiece that easily transcends musical boundaries with its broad appeal to friends of dark sounds regardless of genre.

"This is a cautious album, it?s slow and beautifully methodical. It doesn?t rush into anything and lures you into its gloomy beauty, and then drowns you in the dark waters of sorrow. it?s a kaleidoscope of immersion like being smacked with a tidal wave of emotion. In short, the music here is captivating." New Noise Magazine

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Maud the Moth is the solo project of Spanish-born and Scotland-based pianist, singer and songwriter Amaya
López-Carromero. Maud the Moth serves as Amaya?s alter ego: a séance-like conduit through which to process
personal life experiences, and in particular themes of rootlessness, identity and trauma. Stylistically, Maud the moth
uses her classical training as a platform upon which her eclectic songwriting and cathartic solo live performances
rest. With the usage of live looping, Amaya weaves sonic tapestries riddled with distorted or effected pianos and
driven by an enigmatic and deeply moving voice.
Amaya?s commitment to her own personal vision has attracted performance opportunities from a wide range of
promoters and artistic directors including Roadburn Festival (NL), Primavera Sound (ES), AMFest (ES), Festival
Noroeste (ES), Celtic connections (UK), Noite Branca (PT), Ronnie Scott's (UK), Brudenell Piano Session (UK) and
CCCB (ES) amongst others. Maud the moth has also been invited to perform as guest artist by Chelsea Wolfe, Helen
Money, Anna von Hausswolf and Kayo Dot amongst other artists. A detailed list of past performances can be found
here.
Maud the Moth has released three full-length albums and two live EPs. She has appeared performing live on BBC
Scotland and her music has been featured amongst other outlets, on BBC (UK), RNE (ES) and Bandcamp Radio
where she was recently interviewed. Her third full length album ?Orphn?? saw premieres in Echoes and dust and
Louder, receiving critical acclaim from Metal hammer magazine, Prog, Louder, Roadburn Festival, Bring the noise
and Mondosonoro amongst others.
2023 has seen the release of ?Bordando el Manto Terrestre?, a collaborative album with Galician dark-ambient duo
trajedesaliva which offers a sonic exploration to the life and work of Spanish/Mexican surrealist painter Remedios
Varo. This work was premiered by echoes and dust, and released to acclaim of multiple outlets including Angry
Metal Guy.
Maud the moth is currently working on her fourth full-length ?The Distaff?, which has recently been awarded
Creative Scotland funding.
All enquiries: maudthemoth@gmail.com