KLOF Mag favourites Samana—Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett—have announced the release of their third self-titled album (Released 24th May 2024 on their own The Road imprint). The duo released their Dharma EP in 2023, which explored mythic landscapes, forgotten memories, and the innate search for freedom and peace.
The Samana LP takes inspiration from Rebecca’s dream diary – which she’s kept for more than a decade – and offers an unflinching exploration of the alchemy of grief; a key element underpinning much of her work. It drifts – or perhaps overlaps – the very real world around us while at the same time leaning into those places we perhaps can’t see or feel but know to exist.
We previously shared the video for the album track Two Wrongs, which drew upon the interplay between movement and stillness, solitude and expansion, and freedom and deprivation. Today, alongside the album announcement, they are sharing the album’s opener: ‘The Knife’.
“It feels to be a deliverance, a freeing of stored weight and emotion; the confrontation of somatic memory, an invitation for the physical self to shed these feelings stored,” Samana say of the track. “The last section of the song is a complete amalgamation of all these components – it feels to be a sonic representation of a vast mass of water bursting from the containment of a damn, a huge transformative release, like something breaking apart and away from something else, a confrontation, a shedding of a snakes skin.”
Samana Live Dates
June 16th – Newport (Pembrokeshire) Memorial Hall
June 17th – Bristol – The Mount Without
June 21st – Brighton -St Michaels All Angels Church
June 22nd – London -Proposition Studios