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SHE SAID, SHE SAID | Mara Carlyle
The failures of major record label EMI has claimed a lot of scalps over the past few years, and Mara Carlyle has been one of the artists to find support for their album yanked out from beneath them like a bolting horse beneath a gallows. With her long-completed second album Nuzzle having now languished in exile for two years, Mara is throwing in the towel and accepted that it may never officially see the light of day.
Instead, the opera-trained singer revealed in a newsletter to fans that she’s focusing on some exciting new collaborations. Among them is a joint project with Streetwise Opera on a brand new, seven-minute film opera due to premiere in December, teaming up with composer Emily Hall, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Gaelle Denis, producer Matt Peacock and a variety of other participants on an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s fables The Nightingale & The Rose. The project, dubbed ‘Fables – A Film Opera’, will also see three other stories – The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Japanese fable Hey Come On Out and Hartlepool Monkey – adapted by other artists, including Mira Calix. Follow progress on the project here.
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Tagged mara carlyle, mira calix, nuzzle
PhilippeJuly 27, 2010 at 7:32 pm
I’m so happy to see a news about Mara Carlyle because I’m a huge fan of hers (do you remember me Alan?I sent you a personnal message on MySpace because I wanted to know if you had any news about the release date of Nuzzle).
Unfortunately the news is very sad because it tells that her new album Nuzzle that I was waiting for impatiently will never come out.
Does she really can’t recover the album from EMI?
adminJuly 27, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Hi Philippe. Of course I remember you
Now, as far as I understand it, Mara was eventually able to get ownership of Nuzzle back from EMI but has since been unable to find a label willing to put it out. A real shame. Personally I think she should self-release it through Bandcamp or a small indie label (*cough*) rather than abandon it completely, but I’m sure she has her reasons.
PhilippeJuly 28, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Alan, thank you very much for replying and i’m happy that you remember me!
So she recovered Nuzzle from EMI.At least it’s a good thing.
Yes, I too think she definitely should self-release the album if she doesn’t find any label willing to put it out (talk about incomprehension!…).Her first album The Lovely was released through the good label of Matthew Herbert Accidental Records.I was surprised when I heard from them that they finally won’t release the successor of The Lovely (I asked them some years ago) and saw that she signed with a major (fortunately Ancient And Modern was very good even if the label was EMI).Do you know why Mara left Accidental Records?If Mara doesn’t find any label, maybe she should self-release Nuzzle digitally?But maybe that like you said she has her reasons.Anyway, I hope we can have a new album from her in the future otherwise that would be the biggest waste ever because Mara is very talented (her music is very good, she sings very well and she has the most beautiful female voice in the world).
PhilippeJuly 31, 2010 at 6:43 pm
By the way Alan, you said on this post that Mara Carlyle sent these infos by newsletter.
Where do we subscribe to her newsletters? Her MySpace page isn’t updated and her website has only an animation with a song.
adminAugust 2, 2010 at 2:25 am
Philippe, I can’t guarantee that this will work but try sending an email to tlmcmail@gmail.com and asking to be added to the mailing list.
PhilippeAugust 9, 2010 at 6:52 pm
I will try the mail.Thank you very much Alan.
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