♫ Murmurs - Out Now!
♫ Lyric Booklet → coming soon!
Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (Oxford Dictionary). Saying murmur sounds like a murmur…
“Your heart has to be ready to handle the weight of your calling.” — bell hooks
What might a heart murmur say that a heartbeat hasn’t felt safe to?
As a writer, it’s strange to believe that words aren’t always enough. When I first wrote the six pieces here, as long poems, I wrestled with the feeling that the topics felt both right & incomplete—incomplete without something other than words. I’ve written extensively about suicide, but I reached a point of sacred knowing: my words needed community—they needed music to accompany them. As this relates to suicide prevention, I was acutely reminded of our tendency to believe that what we feel only has value if it’s intellectualized, articulated, and verbalized, rather than felt in our fight to be heard. So what happens with two in the race? Words alongside the music of those extra beats—heartbeats—where blue ink & red blood mix to create purple? This album connects suicide with deeper elements of attempts, loss, love, heartbreak, pain, responsibility, loneliness, ancestry, and imagination. I hope that you experience it, feel it, and allow it to pour into the cracks of your broken heart, too. More to come. With love, Mik
✩ Videos ✩
The Why ✩ Fight While I Survive
The Why ✩ The Moth
The Why ✩ Ghost Ships
The Why ✩ Loving Justice
The Why ✩ Guns, Pills, Rope
The Why ✩ The Discovery
Credits ✩
Lyrics & lead vocals by Mikaela Brewer
Fight While I Survive & Loving Justice ✩ music by Murray Foster
Piano on The Discovery; Guns, Pills, and Rope; and The Moth by Mike Evin
Piano on Ghost Ships by David Matheson
Produced, engineered, mixed, and all other instruments & vocals by Murray Foster
Artwork by Logan Brewer