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Iamthemorning Singer/Songwriter Marjana Semkina To Release Debut Solo Album

Written by Johnson Stephen on December 9, 2019

Iamthemorning Singer/Songwriter Marjana Semkina releases her debut solo album ‘Sleepwalking’ Via KScope 14^TH February 2020. The album will be released under an alternative spelling – Mariana Semkina.

Marjana explains the motivation behind releasing a solo album “It wasn’t my plan to ascribe any profound meaning or concept to creating ‘Sleepwalking’, it’s purpose was more personally therapeutic, it was supposed just to help me get through some dark times, and at the end of that period in my life I found myself, not only renewed but with a collection of songs that were too personal to release under any other name other than my own” She continues “I wanted to use ‘Sleepwalking’ as a way to translate emotions in the most sincere and unrefined way. No sugarcoating, no filters, just creative, honest thought caught in the moment. Turning those dark times and feelings into pure creative energy, something beautiful, something that has purpose”

The stunning album artwork makes reference to Semkina’s love for Classical Art, unifying photography with the 17th-Century Vanitas movement; “I am a big lover of Classical Art and with this cover I wanted to create some sort of a unity between medium of photography and the Vanitas Art movement, a genre of still life painting. The paintings of the genre usually contain collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of Death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality, which is extremely close to where this album came from.”