Fanatic Promotion: Following relocation to Los Angeles from Oakland, Metal Mother’s Tara Timberman set to release new material for first time in five years.

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Following relocation to Los Angeles from Oakland, Metal Mother’s Tara Timberman set to release new material for first time in five years.

“Pagan Jazz” is “homage to disappearing underground,” inspired by “magic, wonder, weirdness” of warehouse party world. Hear “Pris” now.

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Metal Mother (Tara Timberman) as photographed by Parker Day

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Metal Mother – In The Press

“Metal Mother’s unique sonic worlds worm themselves into your brain.” — BlackBook

“Dark, spooky melodies are layered over pulsating, seductive beats.” — BUST

“A face off of industrial beats and tribal stomps.” — Noisey

“Projects a dark image. The music itself is delightfully softer.” — Vogue

“Don’t be fooled by her name. More maternal than metal.” — USA Today

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“Sonically turbulent, ‘Pris’ longs to get lost within itself. Metal Mother employs layers of synths, vocals and sound clippings atop dramatic drums; their boom echoes a deep, unsettling urgency that refuses to resolve.” — Atwood Magazine

[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnd-2MTQwwA

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[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/MetalMother-Pris

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“This is an homage to the disappearing underground.”

Now relocated to Los Angeles from Oakland, Tara Timberman is bringing new Metal Mother material above ground for the first time in five years.

Explaining “Pagan Jazz,” the new five-song Metal Mother EP out June 15^th, Timberman directly references a track from Ionika, her 2013 album. The song “Doomdome” contains the lyric “RIP underground,” a statement that Timberman explains is “about the housing crisis and its effect on DIY safe spaces which are so culturally critical for marginalized artists to gather, experiment and co-create.

“‘Pagan Jazz’ is inspired by and written for the warehouse party world and all the absurd and whimsical fairies it attracted,” she continues. “I’ve lost many friends in the last couple years, including many close friends in the Ghost Ship fire. It’s taken everything I have to keep the magic, wonder, and weirdness alive in life.”

From that place of inspiration, Timberman initially wrote the songs on “Pagan Jazz” in a tiny golden clay dome on a Buddhist wolf sanctuary deep in the foggy coastal northern California redwoods.

“Words cannot describe this experience,” she says.

With these new songs, Timberman shows that the weirdness is very much alive. The magic and wonder, too. The new music on “Pagan Jazz” reflects an even deeper focus on the duality and cross-section of Timberman’s core beliefs in equality, truth, beauty, humor, and spirituality, along with the more earthly pursuits of yoga, paganism, meditation, and psychedelics.

“‘Pagan Jazz’ is a melancholic dance record,” Timberman says.

It’s also some kind of acid drenched surrealist synth creation that beckons, but the kind of beckoning that only comes from the pearly gates: you’ve been invited because you’re dead. It’s dark, electronic, and machine heavy, but at the same time familiar, vulnerable, and motherly.

The only entertainment Timberman had on hand during her time working on “Pagan Jazz” in the dome was a copy of “Blade Runner,” and in fact, “Pris,” the first single from “Pagan Jazz” is inspired by the “Blade Runner” character of the same name.

“It’s about growing up, integrating life experiences and embracing the lightness and dark that we grow into in our own ways,” Timberman explains of the song. “I know on a visceral level how temporary life is.”

“Pagan Jazz,” the new EP by Los Angeles-based Metal Mother arrives June 15^th, preceded by the single “Pris,” streaming now. Tara Timberman is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Metal Mother

“Pagan Jazz” EP

June 15^th, 2018