Ohio-born, Oakland, CA-based songwriter Maria BC announces their Hyaline Remixes EP. It features a rising crop of artists (No Home, Rachika Nayar, Nina Keith, Lucy Liyou, and Ragana) to put their unique spins on some of the breakout songs from their strikingly gorgeous, ambient-folk debut album, Hyaline. Today, you can listen to Maria's frequent collaborator, Rachika Nayar's stunning rework of "ROF".
The EP will be released November 18, 2022 via Father/Daughter Records (US) + Fear of Missing Out Records (UK).
About the track, Rachika states: “Every time I hear the final lines of ROF, they transport me to two parts of my life: one deals with childhood and shame; the other is a memory of driving up the California coast, mountains on the horizon, when I felt a golden sense of future opening in my life. It feels as if the song, in invoking both, metabolizes the past into possibility, and it’s that metabolism that I hoped to delve into with this remix—a metabolism that I think this record opens up for all of us.”
Spanning a wide swath of genres from doom metal, avant-garde pop, and darkwave techno, Hyaline Remixes captures the broad sense of Maria BC’s taste profile and taps into the ever-evolving possibilities of where these songs can take the listener both on a sonic and an emotional level.
“It was both intimidating and thrilling to hear these artists’ interpretations of my music, as I've admired their respective voices, their distinct palettes and materials, for so long,” explains Maria BC. “They’ve transformed the meaning of these tracks and elevated them. I'm so grateful.”