Samantha Connects the Modern Mind With Primordial Ways of Being on “The forest calls me back into her womb”

Samantha, photo courtesy the artist

“The forest calls me back into her womb” as a title alone suggests so much of the draw of nature and reconnecting with primal, natural forces within oneself, ancient spiritual beliefs, Jungian archetypes and pagan mysticism. But Samantha’s song with the video looking like something out of a future Robert Eggers film along with the black and white imagery as a great representation of the hypnotic drones and ethereal vocals presents an experience that taps into what sounds like memories of human existence prior to civilization as we’ve known it for ten thousand years. The figure in a mask of earth and leaves rolling about in ritualistic fashion like a dance from a society that preserves its culture and religious beliefs in performance, art and oral history. Samantha herself in the video wanders slowly through a fog enshrouded forest barren of leaves as though making that symbolic journey to connecting her conscious mind with ancestral knowledge though communing with nature. Watch the video for “The forest calls me back into her womb” on YouTube and follow the Belgian ambient artist on Spotify.

“Stranded” is a Chilling Taste of Mark Korven’s Unsettling Score for The Lighthouse

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Mark Korven The Lighthouse soundtrack cover (cropped)

Mark Korven’s score for the 2019 supernatural horror film The Lighthouse is well represented by the track “Stranded.” The swell of menacing horns like a sudden stormy wind giving way to a tense calm only for the horns to weft their way into the sonic frame again with portents of cosmic horror on the horizon. Director Robert Eggers worked with Korven for his chilling and moody score for Eggers’ previous horror masterpiece, 2015’s The Witch, and brings a similar sensibility employing textures and interweaving, dynamic layers of brass instruments to give voice to the forces of darkness waiting outside normal space to drive humans mad and feed on their fear. Like his work for The Witch, Korven’s composition on “Stranded” gets under your skin with its deeply unsettling moods by masterful use of tone, texture and dynamics. Listen to “Stranded” on YouTube and follow Korven on Twitter.

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