MAMA ft Antonella: Apex Predators

MAMA Ft Antonella: APEX PREDATORS

twenty first Might 2025 – OUT NOW

Magic Backyard Recordings x Warner

Have you ever ever discovered a diary on the sting of a cliff? I did, I learn it. That is the story of the Apex Predator. A debut that, if had been launched within the ‘70s, you’d nonetheless be speaking about at this time. That is MAMA Ft Antonella’s acclaimed first album.

MAMA was her title. She’d been dealt a barrage of dangerous playing cards and power fed a large number of poor meals. She was sick and uninterested in being sick and drained. Her wits finish had been reached. And my pricey boy, how they’d mauled her physique, soul and thoughts. It tore at my ethical standings in disbelief that one may deal with one in such heartless methods. Love eh, what’s it? Love is music. Music is breathtaking and it will take yours away too. Promise? A promise to hope.

An apex predator, often known as a prime predator or superpredator, it’s a predator on the prime of a meals chain, with out pure predators of its personal. A Lion in its pure surroundings would robotically spring to thoughts, however there are lions on the road and in your house and in your thoughts.

Day 1: Industrial Street + A Name to Mild.

A narrative of the ability of connection in a world of misplaced souls. A darkness falls upon your aura with what sounds just like the chime of judgement day as you’re awoken in an ammonia stuffed alleyway. A weary eyed guitar and a mysterious gypsy woman from Hackney takes our lead character by the hand to the promise of a greater way of life. Ought to we belief in belief? Oblivious on the sting of oblivion, she is taken. The streets are tough, so are the folks, buildings and ambitions are derelict, and tears fall “outdoors the library that was as soon as a house, for boys who screamed as they have been raped till damaged”. After which got here a saviour. MAMA had given up on the whole lot till that day on Industrial Street. Issues would by no means be the identical after this. Her cries of anguish are chilling and engaging. A good looking trauma. As this primary day involves an finish, a heavenly voice, a guardian angel – that would simply be Harry Potter’s mother delivers a message – “Let me let you know of the best way the world could possibly be – the best way of affection – that is the best way of all issues. In darkness, even water turns into one with sky. Collectively, we’re liberated from the ache of these deserted by their forefathers; collectively, there isn’t any reistance to our scope. Within the distance, a name to mild – daybreak is the opal wherein all colors burn – daybreak is the vacancy of all issues and you’re liked because the black-headed gulls are liked by the currents, because the deepest trenches of the oceans are liked by silence, one in every of seven billion human organisms, you’re liked”. I sit vast eyed, coronary heart pulsing as I really feel as alone as she. That is magical and so is she. I could be underneath a spell as she falls asleep in a gutter of desires.

Day 3: Morning.

“Lay in clover…watching the ships with their cargoes of sugar, Zoloft, and coal” washes me with a mixture of metaphorical meanings and visible identification that’s pure literate potion of a perculiar perfection on the web page. Her coronary heart is pouring for one thing or somebody she met on that Industrial Street. New love is nice. Is belief reliable? The musical association, as soon as extra, is becoming of the sensation. It’s a soundtrack of the soul with it’s guitars that gleam with hope. It’s a euphoric sun-filled area of sound. The winds have modified and we appear to be seeing via the eyes of a Beck kaleidoscopic imaginative and prescient. “There’s no morning, There’s no morning, With out you” echoes out throughout the ocean in a plea to anothers coronary heart. Waves ripple with the sound of her prayers “My coronary heart is asking, Oh, it’s calling, To you”. Arms open vast like a “Butterfly sluiced in petroleum” she spins in a daydream of dancing bare in one other mans ticker. No predator right here, simply an ache of a earlier shadow. When is the previous handed? Perhaps when there isn’t any morning with out you? There seems to be mild on the finish of the burrow.

Day 4: A River Working Wild.

Flashbacks are a horrid capsule to swallow so usually, particularly once I really feel I’ve some grotesque determine suffocating me and protecting me inflexible with concern. “Have you ever ever been underneath the thumb of a person? Recognized the hand and the arm of a person? Even white women could be crushed black and blue” what? You thought it was solely you. Is that this the predators return? No matter it’s, its the primary time I’ve seen MAMA offended and it scares the crap out of me. It could possibly be halloween as I nervously peer over my shuddering shoulder. A storm is approaching like a ferocious canine, growling and hissing. Is the river her life or her coronary heart? Is a plot of revenge being concocted?

Day 5: Ghost

Head was pounding this morning. Seems like a come-down in a rotting caravan. Nothing appears actual anymore. Has this sound arrived from one other stratosphere? Am I awake? Was I ever dwelling? Why is the world spinning so fast. I really feel trapped once more. I have to clear my head. Are these flashbacks once more or can I see into the long run? Do predators plan? Do you creep to flee or creep to assault? I have to clear my head. Do they even know I’m watching? A late night time stroll down a canal facet can uncover many a shock. Have you ever ever seen somebody they usually haven’t seen that you’ve seen them? I feel MAMA noticed a ghost tonight. Are these flashbacks or can we see into the long run?

Notes:

MAMA Ft Antonella are a duo: Antonella Gambotto-Burke, a lyrical genius, a poetic Princess plus an elite enigma, and Gavin Monaghan, multi-platinum Magic Backyard Studio Producer. A grasp of crafts. MAMA’s melts you together with her hypnotic and hurricane splitting vocal vary, which BIMM Music Institute Professor Jonathan Day, has likened to that of Robert Plant. It soars, it bites, it licks, it kisses, it whispers, it yelps, it strangles you till you submit. It’s an eternal hug, it’s a raging butterfly. It pauses time, and it’s a viper in lingerie. That accompained with Monaghan’s means to ship a raucously intricate chereographed guitar fashion; a sound that wraps round you with the dramatic influence of a Hitchcock flick, is sufficient to create one formidable creature. Perhaps MAMA is the Apex Predator? Nah, she couldn’t be, may she?

Day 6: Bloodlands

It felt like time had stopped final night time, or paused, or slowed down, like life in gradual movement, automotive crash, life flashing infront of ya face. “It was all the time you” ran repeatedly round my thoughts as I struggled to sleep. Snapshots streamline via the area in my head. Blood all over the place. Perhaps I’m dreamin once more. A type of desires the place you may’t get to sleep. Your eye’s received’t open. They’re glued shut. Your councillor assured you this was a chance. No, not a councillor, a hypnotist. That gypsy woman? You bear in mind heat don’t you?

Day 7: Love’s Has-Been

That hypnotist spiked my drink. That is Sgt Pepper’s from the smoke of a shooter. Confusion can have readability, proper? Kate Bush and Iggy Pop had a toddler collectively stated Trevor McDonald at ten previous eight this afternoon. Adrian Mole with a blade. Voldemort is actual and he lives in Hackney. Rehab is for quitters? Is a jail a lodge? Is it my fault you all the time threw the blame onto the flames on my again. You already know what you’ve completed, don’t you? It’s very trippy. MAMA weaves a genre-defying assortment of electrifying sonic narratives that develop extra compelling with each learn. It’s a fantastic tapestry of torment.

Day 8: Some Love

Sat quietly in a darkish nook of your life. It waits. It pounces on you whenever you least count on it. If solely the tables could possibly be turned. A person, married for 25 years, huge movie boff I feel he was. Walks his speaking canine in Kensington Park with a bag of enjoyable in his pockets. Seems like im in some scene from Tarantino and any minute a fourteen yr previous chinese language women gunna plough a automotive into an old-folks house and poor burning gravy onto slices of chopped up horse dick and power feed a bitter tasting liquid into each one in every of its residents, bit Iain Banks – Wasp Manufacturing unit kinda shit and as gritty as Trainspotting. Correct fucked up sickening behaviour all around the store. I used to be considering the opposite day, is paranoia a way of thinking or another person’s curse? The tune and the world round me sparks with ache and anger. I endlessly ache. When will this finish? When will I finish it?

Day 9: If I Can’t Have You

A guitar is stompin on someones head. Huge huge high-heeled stiletto fashion guitar. There’s blood all over the place. Take a look at you now you ratbag. “Your mouth is a Venus fly entice, Your eyes are glacier blue” Oh what pretty eyes you might have, stated the voice from beneath the covers. What covers? Swallow your tongue boy. MAMA seems untouchable proper now. This diary is a darkish darkish story of shackles being torn aside.

Day 10: If You Like

The solar was stunning tonight. MAMA was smoking a cigar and having fun with a rum and coke, sarcastically mocking another person’s previous. Sat on the terrace in one other man’s garments she releases a smoke ring round her personal physique and twiddles her pretend moustache. Doris Day with a dagger in her gown springs to thoughts. God bless that gypsy girl and that day on Industrial Street. She appears pleased with herself, and so she ought to be. As debut diaries go, its up there with the perfect and we’ll have one other chat sooner or later, whenever you’ve discovered what the fuck simply occurred, and the place about you sit within the meals chain. I’ll definetly save MAMA a seat on the prime desk.

Ultimate Notes:

There’s alot of individuals trying to re-write historical past and create a brand new previous tense these days. If that’s the case, then I would like Disney disbanded and MAMA to relate each movie they’ve ever launched. If not, she reads my life story in my ear on my loss of life mattress. That is historical past.

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