Mujōkan Premiere with Schön! Magazine
We are so excited to announce the premiere of our short film Mujōkan with Schön! magazine!
“An appreciation for the fleetingness of all existence”
Mujōkan is a contemplative short film exploring impermanence as both an emotional and aesthetic state. Rooted in the understanding that life, relationships, and even the spaces we build or inhabit are transient, the film reflects on the idea that material forms inevitably dissolve — what endures is the essence we leave behind. The second work in Samana’s portrait series, Mujōkan follows celebrated Butoh dancer Marie-Gabrielle Rotie as she confronts the profound transition of leaving the home she and her partner designed together: a minimalist, architectural sanctuary shaped by devotion, intention, and shared vision. After the relationship ended, the act of departing the space became an existential and artistic threshold. Through movement, stillness, and philosophical reflection, Rotie reclaims the house not as an object of attachment, but as a site of transformation — an artistic gesture that allows her to leave behind a legacy that transcends the self. Shot on analogue 8mm film, Mujōkan captures a fleeting moment in time through a delicate interplay of gesture, sound, and architectural presence. The work stands as evidence, as witness, and ultimately as a gift offered back to the house and its space — a final collaboration between body and structure before they part ways.
Behind The Process
A little context for The Golden Thread EP. Every song was recorded to quarter-inch tape in a place in the south of France that is incredibly dear to us. Each piece was conjured through the inspiration and accompaniment of the surrounding landscapes.
“Lakeside Song” was written beside a secret lake, immersed in silver birch and poplar trees. “Elysian Fields” took shape in a wildflower meadow awash with cowslip, oxeye daisies, and untamed orchards in summer, and tall flaxen grasses in autumn. “Moving On” was written beside a roaring wood-burner in the living room of an old mill as the stars glistened in a clear, sharp sky while “The Weight of a Shadow” was improvised as rolling hills of scrub oak burned gold, the sun setting below the valley.
Recording to tape is important to us, as one exists entirely within the emotion of the song itself. The construction and execution are answerable to feeling — to the shifts of the heart, to unseen districts of land traversed and realised through the very act of creation.
In the words of T.S Eliot “music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music whilst the music lasts”
The Golden Thread EP Out Now!
Our new EP ‘The Golden Thread’ is out now. A collection of four songs, The Golden Thread dwells at the threshold between what is known and what remains unknown. Shaped by shifting narratives of memory—held within our consciousness and the places that anchor us—the music moves through passages of time marked by metamorphosis and quiet transformation. Loss is not erased but alchemized, becoming something enduring: nostalgia held with tenderness and poignant grace, and an understanding that the weight we bear can become a guide across unseen crossings. Emerging and dissolving across a lifetime, the EP echoes the mythic thresholds of ancient lore, where paradise is never fixed, but continually entered, left, and reimagined.
You can support our work directly by purchasing a download of the EP off of bandcamp or directly from our website here.
'Elysian Fields'
Thanks to Guy Garvey for playing our new song ‘Elysian Fields’ on BBC6 Music and to Adam Walton for playing it on BBC Radio Wales over the weekend. Listen to either show if you want to hear the song before its release on the 30th January. It is a meditation on the questions we resolve and those that remain unanswered, shaped by the shifting narratives of memory held both within our consciousness and in the places that anchor us—emerging and dissolving across a lifetime, echoing the mythic paradise of Greek lore.
“They are just fabulous, I love them. Her voice is just incredible!”
-Guy Garvey
30.01.2026
For The Collectors
For The Collectors
We’ve released an exclusive edition of 17 All One Breath envelopes, including handwritten lyrics from Samana’s second album and a hand-developed, sewn darkroom print - with each one being entirely original.
✴ There are only seven remaining ✴
New EP 'The Golden Thread'
Two new creations are soon to find their way into the world. The first is the release of our upcoming EP, The Golden Thread, arriving on February 1st in time for Imbolc. This collection of songs was written while submerged in the embrace of expansive oak forests and untouched lakes—beneath winter stars, among tall grasses, and within deep listening.
In February, we will premiere Mujōkan with Berlin-based Schön! Magazine—an appreciation of the fleetingness of all existence. The film is a contemplative short exploring impermanence as both an emotional and aesthetic state. Following celebrated Butoh dancer Marie-Gabrielle Rotie as she departs a home she once co-created, Mujōkan captures a final collaboration between body and space, transforming loss into gesture, memory, and legacy.
We are incredibly excited to share these creations with you.
With warmth,
Samana
A Christmas Offering
A Christmas Offering. From now until Christmas, every order of £20 or more comes with a complimentary Poetry & Dreams Zine.
This limited-edition, eight-page zine gathers Polaroids, dream fragments, philosophical reflections, letters, and poems—all created during the long, quiet months composing the album in the forests and mountains of the Midi-Pyrénées. A small artefact of that time, it carries the texture of misted mornings, nocturnal thoughts, and the slow rhythm of the landscape.
Only 50 copies exist, and each one is a small world of its own.
Video For Lakeside Song
We are thrilled to have premiered the video for Lakeside Song with KLOF magazine today.
“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.
Read the feature below
Lakeside Song Video
Here are some stills from the analogue short film to accompany ‘Lakeside Song’ dropping next week.
Lakeside Song on BBC Radio 6 Music
Thank you to Guy Garvey for spinning Lakeside Song on Sunday
“Absolutely one of my favourite bands of all time!”
Listen Here
Samana Spotlight - Broadcast Live on BBC Wales
You can listen to BBC Wales’ Samana spotlight - with a live broadcast of our full performance at Boia Festival, featuring an interview with Adam Walton starting at 1:41:30.
Last Vinyls Left
'Samana' Vinyl
£25.00
We are down to the last first pressings of SAMANA vinyls. All CD’s and vinyls from our other albums are completely sold out!
Lakeside Song - Out Now
‘Lakeside Song’ is out today on Samhain, when the veil between worlds grows thin. Born on the threshold of seen and unseen beside a sacred lake in southern France, its music carries reflection, memory, and quiet resonance. A Super 8 film will follow soon — watch our website for its arrival.
Earth Theatre London
Through the liminal realms of the thinning veil, we had the great honour of closing our performances this year at EartH this Tuesday, in celebration of the Samhain ritual. We'd like to extend our true appreciation to the wondrous Alfie Weedon, James Osler, Fraser Bowles, and Andrew Stuart-Buttle, who joined us on stage.
Our deepest thanks to Weird Walk, NeoAncients and Ffern for weaving us into such a night of wonder. To be introduced by Stewart Lee was an honour we’ll long cherish, and the performances by Daisy Rickman and Lucy Gooch were nothing short of spellbinding.
Gratitude also to Tree, and to the Bells of London, whose resonances carried through the evening like echoes of the old world.
A blessing on all who gathered, listened, and shared in the turning of the year.
Beautiful photographs by Bryan Taylor
The Bristol show was incredible—thank you to everyone who joined us! Next up, we’re performing at the sold-out Samhain ritual at EartH in Hackney tomorrow, hosted by Wierd Walk and NeoAncient, with an incredible line-up. We take to the stage at 8:15pm.
Lakeside Song - Out 31st October
Our new piece of music, Lakeside Song, will be released in just under a week, on Samhain — October 31st — a time when the veil between worlds grows thin. This song dwells on the edges of thresholds and was composed beside a sacred lake dear to us in southern France.
Tune in tonight: Samana’s Boia Festival Broadcast BBC Radio Wales
We’re playing tonight at 6:40 pm at The Tabernacle in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, as part of the sold-out Boia Festival!
We’re thrilled to share that our performance has been selected for broadcast on BBC Radio Wales.
Second Edition of ‘Theta’ Poetry Book
