Remix by the brilliant http://soundcloud.com/pinata-vandals !

Hermann Newman - drum machines, bass synthesizer, piano, synthesizers, shakers, mixing and mastering.

A song about conjuration and appearances. Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/Thin_Red_Lines.html
Original version: http://soundcloud.com/mara_and_the_pillows/thin_red_lines

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Thin Red Lines (Pinata Vandals Remix)

Ingredients: clarinet, accordion, alto recorder, kalimba, bucket of laundry detergent (percussion), a big suitcase (percussion), guitar body (percussion), hand clapping, choirs - lyrics below.

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STARFISH

my heart’s a starfish
it keeps on growing back
aches when you break
it keeps on growing back

my heart is a starfish
keeps on growing back
cracks up your tough shell
keeps on growing back

maybe one day you’ll break it so
it grows into two
hearts with enough love
for me and you

tear off my limbs - it’s growing pains
write off my kiss - just growing pains
shatter me - don't matter what you do
break away - I’ll come back to you

my heart’s a starfish
keeps on growing back
cracks up your hard shell
keeps on growing back

maybe one day
you’ll break it so it grows into
two hearts with enough
love for me and you

tear me apart - it’s growing pains
pound at me - just growing pains
push me away - I’ll hold on till you crack
sweet embrace - so you’ll always come back

my heart’s a starfish
it keeps on growing back
aches when you break
it keeps on growing back

my heart’s a starfish that
breaks the shell off you
lives inside your emptiness
till it’s enough for two

Starfish (2017 unmastered)

Ingredients: piano, kalimba, a big suitcase (percussion), vocal percussion and accidentally recorded clicks, rain, choirs - lyrics below.

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DRAGONFLIES

I'm making my way (to you) through the ghosts of my past 
with a fire that spits from the cracks of my heart
I'm a sweet dream that's made by fears
draw me near to reappear

to be closer to you
closer to you

I'll wait for you beyond the void of your past 
cos you're the fire that spits through the cracks of my heart
you're the sweetest dream that's made by fears
shed all shame, go on, you'll return

to get closer (dragonflies inside)
reel me in closer to you

dragonflies (just wanna be) inside, let my toes curl around you
dragonflies in my insides when my toes curl around you
dragonflies inside when my toes curl around you
dragonflies all over my insides, when my toes curl

Dragonflies

A song about meetjngs and thoughts in public transport. Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/Short_Encounter.html

Ingredients: a tumtutuptu-tudum vocal, a humming choir, a lead vocal, a good microphone.

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Short Encounter (acapella version)

A song about conjuration and appearances. Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/Thin_Red_Lines.html

Ingredients: a clarinet, an accordion, humming choir vocals, tudu vocals, an accidental heartbeat sample, whispers, Mr. Hauksson's voice chat warning sample, a lead vocal, a good microphone.

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Thin Red Lines

A song about a new point of view. Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/Suddenly.html

Ingredients: tamtam beat vocal, tududu choir, mm-mm-ha choir, a lead vocal, a good microphone.

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Suddenly (vocal draft)

A song about control, conquest and surrender. Featuring Mr. Blotter's instrumental composition "Waltz In The Street". Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/All_Strings_Attached.html | - http://soundcloud.com/tom-blotter -

Ingredients: a piano, synth violins, a lead vocal, a good microphone.

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All Strings Attached (ft. Mr. Blotter)

A song about echos or fading remnants. Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/The_Wood_Sighs.html

Ingredients: a guitar body drum, a creaking chair, a walk through the forest, a bunch of sighs, a wood pecker, a can with mint leaves, a far bass drum, a lead vocal, a fire, a crappy headset microphone

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The Wood Sighs

A song about love and destruction. Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/Hold_Me.html

Ingredients: a clarinet, a guitar body drum, two guitar snare scratches, a bunch of percussion vocals, a glass of water and a wacom tablet pen, a mew, a tudu hum and doom choir, a lead vocal, a crappy headset microphone.

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Hold Me

A happy song about departure. Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/Fading_Away.html

Ingredients: three background loop vocals singing huudu-tudu-tudu and huudu-pow-pow, a nininininininininini-wa-wa vocal, a poom-poom-bass vocal, a prr prr syncopation vocal, about eleven choir vocals, four pairs of clapping hands, throat and tongue clacking percussion, a rice-in-can samba shaker, a clarinet for multiple lines and syncopation, a lead vocal, laughter, a cat snore, a good microphone.

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Fading Away

Listen to 'Faces In Leaves' - a song about the bottle and memories - by Mara and the Pillows.

Ingredients: Mei Ling's squeaky toilet door, a glass water bottle flute, a finger harp, a mmmba choir, a tududududu choir, a sigh and a whistle, a lead vocal, a rustling leaves sample, a bird wing sample, a bats sample, a cricket field sample, a sample of one thunder drum, a good microphone.

Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/Faces_In_Leaves.html


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Faces In Leaves

A song about impossible love between sleep and awake. Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/Before_You_Wake.html

Ingredients: a glockenspiel, a tam tam and mm tada tada choir, a whooo-ah choir, a lead vocal, a good microphone.

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Before You Wake

A song about courage in pursuit. Find the lyrics and more at http://www.maraah.net/music/Brave.html

Ingredients: a tudu vocal band by Mr. Klassen, vocal tss and plop percussion by Mr. Klassen, a table tick, a vinyl crackle sample -'lp-noise' by Lonemonk on Freesound.org-, a hahaha chorus choir, a lead vocal, a mobile phone as microphone for the lead, a bad laptop microphone for the vocal band and a good microphone for the bass vocal. | Check out http://soundcloud.com/christopher-klassen on Soundcloud.

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Brave (ft. Mr. Klassen)

UPDATE! Mara and the Pillows merged with Pinata Vandals into the brand new band Paper Veil: soundcloud.com/paperveil/
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WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/maraandthepillows/wearitlikeitsblack

Remix by the brilliant http://soundcloud.com/pinata-vandals !

Hermann Newman - Programmed drums, drum machines, acoustic drums, synthesizers, piano, Korg monotron
Audrey Strutt - Finger clicks
Jenny Eden - Violin

Artwork, mixing and mastering by Hermann Newman

A song about materialism and lost love - lyrics and more can be found at http://www.maraah.net/music/Wear_It_Like_Its_Black.html
Original version: http://soundcloud.com/mara_and_the_pillows/wear_it_like_its_black

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Wear It Like It's Black (Pinata Vandals remix)

In this melodic project, Mara collaborates with her (imaginary) friends in a search to tell tales in a different tune.
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Mara and the Pillows was born on August 2010, in a tiny appartment at the eastern outskirts of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The sound mainly consists out of vocals, vocal instruments, samples/field recordings and instruments made out of household equipment (mainly due to the lack of more 'real' instruments), plus, a guitar and a clarinet.

Strong influences are fairy tales, myth and folklore. The cold and barren nordic/arctic lands. 20' to 40's music, blues, jazz. Poetry. Nerds.
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