Composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer more eaze (artist mari rubio) has shared the raw, honest new single “the producer” from her upcoming album sentence structure in the country, out Mar. 20th. The song moves with a delicate, yet increasingly lush arrangement of drum machine, strings, varied guitar flourishes, and rubio’s voice, notably bare and vulnerable, doing away with her usual processing and autotune.
On the track’s sense of vulnerability and central theme to the record, as she considers her place in the music world as an artist and producer, rubio elaborates:
“To me, this is the most vulnerable track on the record and as I thought about how so much of production and session work involves some sort of sublimation of self in a vulnerable way, I decided to highlight elements of this with the fragility of the arrangement and production here. It’s a rare autotune-free more eaze track which I did deliberately to force myself to think about arranging and playing around my vocals differently. I let my friends and frequent collaborators Alice and Jade have a lot of free reign over what they added to the track. I kept the big arrangement moments I added sparse so that they’d have to play around the gaps in the song.
more eaze is the moniker of Brooklyn-based composer, orchestrator, and multi-instrumentalist, mari rubio. A renowned collaborator both in performance and on recordings, rubio’s own work is a fantasia, a reflection of her curious and explorative musical mind, encompassing entire spectrums of sound from a wide sonic pallet electro-acoustic textures, folk traditions, and pop forms that pirouette into fully realized ecosystems. sentence structure in the country is a definitive statement of the matchless quality of more eaze’s skill as player and musical thinker. The album relishes the ecstatic in performance and collaboration with an inviting wit and incisive compositions, imbuing tenderness, frustration, and joy into each passage.
sentence structure in the country is a collection of compositions, each beautifully realized, self-contained worlds. rubio’s dexterous, tasteful arranging lays bare her influences and obsessive fascinations with remarkable congruency while foregoing any sense of indulgence. Her music holds a density not only in the lush compositions and embellishing flourishes, but also for those moments of spare, minimalist beauty. sentence structure in the country is a textural marvel, a mosaic of ethereal electronics and loamy acoustics sculpted around deeply moving, enduring songs.
more eaze will be playing an album release show in support of sentence structure in the country in NYC at TV Eye on April 15th.
