We recently spoke to Tom Williams/Secret Meeting about our recent album All One Breath, our artistic processes and philosophies and our feelings about returning to the stage. You can read the full interview via the link below and be the first to watch our conceptual film shot on super 8 released in connection to the album.
Samana confront the heaviest elements of the human condition
“The pair’s sophomore album is one that confronts the heaviest elements of the human condition – alternately surrendering to this heaviness and transcending it.
Much of what was composed in these sessions were ‘improvisations,’ Rebecca tells me, guided by in-the-moment inspiration and faith in the magic of spontaneity. Accordingly, these songs channel a free-wheeling spirit – less conceptual than its predecessor, yet somehow heavier, and harbouring all the power of a revelation. Mockett tells me that the music of All One Breath was written during a period devoid of ‘the touch of humanity’ and as such these songs can almost feel as though they were written by the last people on earth – finding solace in their solitude while pondering the unknowable.
All One Breath somehow feels like a natural point of continuation from Ascension; not so much re-inventing the band’s sound, but instead taking their early ambitions and expanding them into cinematic proportions. ‘I never see the musical process as an evolution, but as a continuation,’ Rebecca tells me.”
