Martha Rose

Martha Rose is an English musician living in Berlin. Her new solo album “Close to Close” was produced with and mixed by ET (Discovery Zone, John Moods) in Neukölln. The album uses sampled voices, water, flutes, and breathy synth sounds alongside drum machines and a collection of vintage Yamaha keyboards to create a minimal and intimate space. This work is an organic and introspective meditation, which began over the lonely months of lockdown. Influenced by Daniel Johnston, PJ Harvey, Anna Domino, This Mortal Coil, Laurie Anderson, Woo, and Kate Bush, the album tenderly explores the almost-knowing of love, through an 80s outsider art pop lens. It mourns closeness gone cold, and the quiet loss of unspoken fragile intimacy. The album builds a shrine around feelings and relationships that melt away into the night and the past, as if they never existed. Based on personal experience, mythical characters and abstract dreams, ‘Close to Close’ is a tender and defiant exploration of love, thrown out with abandon into the void.