Maguire
Multi-instrumentalist and singer Maguire AKA Gillian Maguire shares new single Melt taken from her forthcoming EP Fantaisies released via Seven Four Seven Six Music.
The third track to be taken from forthcoming EP produced by Liam Howe (FKA Twigs, Lana Del Rey), Melt opens with a tender Piano refrain with Maguire’s vocals layered on top creating a deeply emotive track which Maguire explains: Melt explores the desire to transcend the material waking world into the weightless realm of dreams. Letting go of the self and thus of the ego to become pure spirit is a theme recurrent in Zen Buddhist theory, which has served as much of the inspiration behind the EP; or as Rebecca Solnit put it when describing the work of Yves Klein – ‘the dissolution of the rational mind, of expectation, of borders and boundaries, thus erasing the map of reason and entering the void of pure consciousness.”
With the single comes accompanying video, starring MAGUIRE along with the dancer Xavier directed by longtime collaborator Bonnie Wright who explains: “Navigating across worlds we follow MAGUIRE as she transcends the “mind map” of her memory to a structureless and limitless reality, until she quite literally melts away. As they move and fall into one another the outlines of their bodies blur, forcing even the viewer to let go of a preconceived outline through which we structure our world,”
While Maguire comments: “Following on from themes of oneness in one form or another, The video was inspired by this struggle with the physical world, the dancer representing my battling subconscious. As the dance unfolds we gradually give into each other to become one; the struggle is finally over.”
