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Rising Dutch talent Marle Thomson shares new song 'Satellites'
“Satellites” is the new single from Amsterdam-based nu-future-soul singer-songwriter Marle Thomson, who uses soul, folk and electronic sounds in her music. The song is to be released on 17th February 2017 via City Lark Music. Marle has racked up an impressive list of live performances on popular Dutch national TV and radio stations, performed at festivals and venues including Fashion Week Amsterdam, Modefabriek, ShowUP, Amsterdam Woods Festival, the Vondelpark Open Air Theatre, TREK festival, Uitmarkt Festival and Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week opening stages for Heather Peace, Myles Sanko and Mark Wilkinson.
Since starting at a young age at her parents’ piano, Marle discovered the different colours of her voice growing up and “just couldn’t stop singing!”. After joining the church gospel choir, she moved on and experienced performances as a soloist in front of a public. In February of 2016 Marle launched her EP The Canopy in the packed Paradiso venue in Amsterdam, which was entirely decorated with forty trees and plants to give the audience a total experience. The title of the EP symbolises the writing process. For her first single Marle worked with a young Amsterdam video artist, Kamiel Rongen, who made a video for the song “Levitation”.
Drawing influences from artists such as Laura Mvula, Lianne La Havas and Sufjan Stevens, Thomson’s new offering is a sparsely rhythmic ballad intersecting soul, folk and warm electronica. It’s Thomson’s vocal which holds together the gentle finger-picking of the acoustic guitar and stellar pads. Harmonically rich and delicately crafted, “Satellites” has the feeling stargazing at midnight.
Thomson explains of her new self-produced single “Satellites”, “When I wrote this song, the first sentence that came to me was “cause we're weightless, weightless, weightless for a night”. To me “Satellites” is a love story in space, a journey of two people weightlessly hovering between the earth and the stars. I wanted to create a light, dreamy vibe, with a subtle dark impending thought: was it all a dream?”
Marle Thomson will be performing this Saturday, 14th January at Eurosonic Festival - Brouwerij Martinus (15.45 – 16.05)
Listen to Marle's new single below. https://soundcloud.com/marlethomson/satellites
