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Marta Per
Putting Our Wishes To Sleep
Marta Per has a wealth of targets to aim at, and an enormous potential audience. There is something here for fans of jazz, funk, r&b, prog rock, even jam band music, and there are flashes of every decade and most styles throughout this work - all in a crisp modern package.
A self-described “Londoner from Lisbon”, Marta Per has dropped a new single that is a fascinating listen - from the first moments, you’ll be taken in by how polished the production is, how tight the arrangement, how tight the playing feels.
When the chorus arrives, it may take a couple turns before you really internalize how cool this piece of writing is. There’s some really inventive use of timing and melody (something that a deeper dive will show to be typical of Marta Per’s work) - and the payoff of “Putting Our Wishes to Sleep” is so. damn. cool.
Marta Per
Favourite Way of Existing
Londoner-by-way-of-Lisbon Marta Per has put together one of the most spectacular releases of the year to date in this 5 track gem.
Marta is one of the most talented composers in the indie world right now, bringing a universe of influences to bear, and tying all of them together with a soft-but-powerful vocal delivery and a classic melodic sensibility that alternately sounds like it would be at home in a 70’s TV soundtrack, onstage at Carnegie Hall, or in Montreux during Jazz Fest.
Every element of these arrangements is damn near flawless. This is professional grade work on par with anything you’ll find. The subtle dynamic shifts as “Surprise” dives into the sultry, hypnotic chorus - and the fake-out lift at the end of the second chorus before we get yanked back off the shore into the guitar solo - are masterstrokes.
We were constantly thinking of various pop-star breakthroughs that teased the possibility of mainstream culture embracing something a bit more sophisticated, more jazz-adjacent - the emergence of Norah Jones, the early days of Alicia Keys… not that this music is comparable to either stylistically (Marta Per, for lack of a better descriptor, fucking rocks in a way neither of those acts really tried to).
But that’s the cultural tier Marta Per belongs in. This is a truly exceptional piece of work.
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