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Artist
Mari Park
12+ albums
dream popbedroom poplofiexperimentalAmbient dub
about
In e.e. cummings’ “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond,” cummings describes the image of a flower opening, petals being opened by a lover’s delicate fingers and being enclosed in snow. In this evocation of intimacy vs. isolation, a double meaning of the word “close” is formed, defining the overarching narrative of proximity and delicate balance within mari park’s debut EP “closeness.” Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, the Korean-Chilean American songwriter and producer mari park currently studies Classical Guitar and Music Technology. Through this contrasting periodization between the classical and the modern manifests an exploration of contradictions on “closeness”: the binding of ASMR-tinged vocals with digital artifacts (“sustain”), natural field recordings made uncanny (“fleet”) and shifts between slowcore antipathy (“birthday”) and glitch feminist electro-pop fantasies (“system”). It’s all meant to blur the traditional experience of the music listener, not just by genre, but by presence itself. “I wanted to explore this idea of simulated intimacy and include sounds that are very “close”...the little artifacts, rustling, or jingling that sound like mistakes are actually purposeful, to make you (the listener) feel closer to me, as if you are in the room while I am making the song.” To take the idea of “closeness” even further, park’s music is an insight into their own generation, presenting itself as a process of radical healing and externalization of politica
