"there's something that you know exists / but everything in the blue lives / outside of your mind..."
The vintage sci-fi futuristic haunting of "Gethsemani", by the ever so trippy Nashville-based experimental artist and composer Eve Maret, seems to exist in another time or place. The use of digital and modular synthesizers, the retro visions of computerized looping somehow pull your mind into dark places (or at least it does to me) where each plodding deliberate machine beat and throbbing bass sounds have you sonically peering around corners. The eerie edges feel adjacent to late 70's / 80's Düsseldorf, Germany's industrial punk electronic outfit DAF (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft) colliding with darkly spooky soundtrack to 1977's Suspiria as written by progressive electronic band Goblin. The sense here, especially with the deliberate sludgy cadence, the synth arpeggios that rattle and spin of their course, creating mental triggering like dizziness as a framework for Maret's beautifully dreamy vocal countenance (sometimes beautifully detached too) would work perfectly, precisely for filmic endeavors of our modern times. Severance comes to mind as does Stranger Things, as does movies like Weapons or The Substance, maybe because "Gethsemani" might just feel like an ode to false Gods, whether mythological or tech.
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
[Inspired by a weekend retreat at Gethsemani, the oldest Catholic monastery in the US, where she visited with Brother Luke, the music director at the abbey. "That night, I had a dream where I heard a song that felt very familiar - I tried looking it up the next morning, then realized that the song didn’t exist yet. I recorded 'Gethsemani' as soon as I returned home.” It’s taken from her album "Diamond Cutter" that dropped on April 17th.
“Diamond Cutter” is an exploration of the space where strength meets vulnerability. The title “Diamond Cutter” comes from an ancient Buddhist text of the same name. A diamond represents the invisible potential within everything - Diamonds are perfectly clear, while also being the hardest substance in the universe. With this body of work, I endeavored to create music that was both strong and honest. I set aside any genre-specific limitations to allow the pure expression to come through directly. Each song is a commitment to using my authentic voice, to embodying my highest potential by singing the truth.
Nashville’s Eve Maret makes use of digital and modular synthesizers, a vocoder, clarinet, electric bass, guitars, and field recordings to create works that range from lush cinematic compositions to space disco.]
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Eve Maret (sounds like "muh-ray") is a Nashville-based experimental artist and composer who employs a wide array of electronic media and techniques in her various disciplines, exploring the possibilities of personal and communal healing through creative action. She has been praised by the likes of WIRE Magazine, Chicago Tribune, DJ Mag, Bandcamp, and more.
Drawing inspiration from nineteenth-century orchestral and choral works, the Fluxus movement, Kosmische Musik and funk, Eve makes use of digital and modular synthesizers, a vocoder, clarinet, electric bass, guitar, and field recordings to create works that range from lush cinematic compositions to space disco. Eve’s music practice is a conversation with her numerous curiosities, manifested in the form of video art, drawing, dance, ritual, and cymatics.
On Tuesday 2/3, Maret announces her latest release Diamond Cutter. The twelve tracks are out April 17th, 2026. Diamond Cutter is an exploration of the space where strength meets vulnerability. The title comes from an ancient Buddhist text of the same name.
"A diamond represents the invisible potential within everything. Diamonds are perfectly clear, while also being the hardest substance in the universe," Eve describes. "With this body of work, I endeavored to create music that was both strong and honest. I set aside any genre-specific limitations to allow the pure expression to come through directly. Each song is a commitment to using my authentic voice, to embodying my highest potential by singing the truth."
Eve is also sharing the fearless, synth-soaked new single "Break the Chain," out today. It's a track about processing grief -- feeling it, and letting it pass through. Check out the new track via YouTube on Tuesday.
"I made the beat when my cat Shrimpy didn’t have much time left. He sat on my lap, purring while I worked. I made it for him, and it was the last time he would be a witness to my creativity while he was alive. I think that every loss I’ve experienced gives me space to process all the previous losses, big and small, personal and collective," Eve says. "When another being’s presence reveals to you the love you have within, that experience is never lost. I am forever changed by the love I’ve felt, and I can break the chain of suffering by giving myself love and appreciating everything around me, knowing that love is the only thing that never goes away."
Eve’s music has been featured on Echoes Radio and Iggy Pop’s BBC radio show Iggy Confidential. “Synthesizer Hearts,” off of Eve’s 2020 release, Stars Aligned, appeared on BBC Radio 6 Music’s B-List in December 2020 and premiered on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC Radio show “Music From The Near Future.” In 2021, Eve contributed to Moebius Strips, an audio installation and companion album honoring the work of electronic music pioneer Dieter Moebius. Other contributors include Geoff Barrow (Portishead, Beak), Sarah Davachi, Jean-Benoît Dunckel (Air), Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo), Phew, Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster, Harmonia), Michael Rother (Harmonia, NEU!) and Yuri Suzuki.
In 2022 and 2023, Eve and her collaborators Dream Chambers and Belly Full Of Starscomposed a live-score for FW Murnau’s 1922 film, Nosferatu, which they performed in theatres across the United States. Collaborating is an important aspect of Eve’s creative path, and she has an on-going dance music project called GLAZIER with her partner Scott Glazier, as well as a synth-rock duo, Eardrummer, with longtime friend Adrienne Franke.
Eve has performed across the United States and internationally, alongside artists such as William Tyler, Guerilla Toss, MATMOS, JEFF the Brotherhood, and Lydia Lunch.
In addition to her personal creative practices, Eve is committed to providing avenues for others to create and uplift one another. In 2018, She, Jess Chambers, Deli Paloma-Sisk, and Arlene Sparacia founded Hyasynth House, an electronic music collective and education center for female and LGBTQIA+ artists. Together they facilitated workshops, performances, and community-wide conversations in an effort to support and empower marginalized groups. The founders went their separate ways in 2019, but Eve continues to lead electronic music workshops and to organize live music events in Nashville and beyond, including her work co-producing Nashville Drone, a 6-hour music experience featuring 13 regional artists across genres, in an effort to create an immersive space for the community to connect and recharge.
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