Last year, Samana – Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett released their third full-length self-titled album (reviewed here) that explored mythic landscapes, forgotten memories, and the innate search for freedom and peace. More recently, they released their standalone single ‘Lakeside Song’ on Samhain, a timely offering that contemplates the idea of thresholds: those subtle crossings between what is seen and what is felt (more below). In follow-up, they have shared an accompanying analogue video that was created on Super 8mm.
It’s an absolute pleasure to premiere the video on KLOF Mag; the duo have always championed an analogue approach to film and still photography, as well as the work of others, such as the Polaroid work of photographer Mike Brodie, best known for capturing the “transient subculture of freight train riders” (see their video for Two Wrongs). As artistic creators, they share a similar conviction to Brodie, engendering a warmth that runs counter to much of what is missing in art today, especially as we enter an increasingly sterile AI age that seems to trample the original creative spirit built on intent and mindful choice.
“Everything Samana makes – their music and film – is profoundly powerful. Moving, masterful, potent, seeking, sublime, no matter what place their music finds in you, or where it takes you, Samana reaches us from a rare depth that holds us in its knowing. There is a joy and mystery here that includes every vitality of the soul – silence, stillness, grief, love; rarely does music listen so profoundly.”
Anne Michales, Poet Laureate of Toronto
Rebecca of Samana shared:
“Lakeside Song” unfolds as an analogue Super 8mm meditation—an invocation of a place where the outer world gently dissolves and the inner one rises to meet it. Originally released on Samhain, the day when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest, the song was composed beside a lake that holds deep personal and spiritual significance for us. Emerging from a place of stillness and reverence, the lake itself became a living threshold—between the seen and the unseen, yearning and reflection, serenity and infinity. The piece explores the idea of thresholds: those subtle crossings between what is witnessed and what is felt. The song carries the imprint of this landscape—where light slips into memory, and memory softens into renewal. The film, in turn, becomes a quiet study of transformation and release, shaped by water, reflection, and the slow, patient work of becoming.
Rebecca also recently published a poetry book called Theta, which sold out in its first edition within two weeks. A handful of the second edition copies of Theta poetry books are now available for purchase—only 50 copies.
Rebecca shared this about Theta:
Within its pages, Theta traces the tender edge where beauty and pain meet—not as opposites, but as inseparable companions. These poems reflect the fragile equilibrium of life through mirrored waters, shadowed wounds, and the quiet, enduring pulse of transformation. This is a passage through the architecture of remembrance: a lyrical cartography of becoming, where the cycles of nature and the movements of the soul converge in an endless rhythm of change. A collection of twenty-nine poems, Theta navigates themes of displacement, memory, and spiritual geography—where the external landscape merges with the interior self. The work resides in the liminal space between language and silence, where imagery becomes a vessel for grief, myth, metamorphosis, and resilience. This edition features a foreword by Poet Laureate Anne Michaels and holds, pressed within its pages, a flower from our cottage garden in Wales—an intimate offering, preserved in time.
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