Munya – Queen City Sounds and Art

Munya2_sm — Munya, photo courtesy the artist

In Munya’s “Dove” there is a bit of the same atmospheric character that makes music by Chromatics seem timeless and out of the current frame of cultural reference. As though, technological considerations aside, this song could have come out in the late 50s or in the mid-60s. The crystalline guitar, bird sounds and Josie Boivin’s vocals with the French lyrics seem to be coming from another place and another era. Like if Françoise Hardy got into making chill synth pop in the 1980s for a movie David Lynch made under a different name that wasn’t Alan Smithee but a secret cult movie to rediscover in future decades and one that embraced the romanticism at the heart of his films more so than the darkness. Whatever the inspirations or the aims of the song it is tapping into a complex array of emotions while seeming, on the surface, simple if otherworldly. Listen to “Dove” on Soundcloud and Boivin’s project Munya at the links below.