LOVE EVERYTHING!

October 20, 2017

Mariam The Believers new album Love Everything is finally released today! We dance and love and celebrate! You can now order the LP/CD here on our homepage. Please note that we prefer orders inside of Scandinavia, the rest of the world can turn to our world wide distributor CARGO for orders, thank you :)

Love Everything

Arwork by Martin Vallin

“Living, loving, moving, hoping, trying, crying, fighting, growing, staying, doubting, feeling, knowing, singing, playing, dying, floating” - ‘Eternity’ from ‘Love Everything’.

When Mariam The Believer – the solo moniker of Mariam Wallentin – began the creative process of her second album ‘Love Everything’ she had a clear and simple credo – to distill the essence of musical power, to bring people together, putting pieces into a whole and to give hope.

The follow up to 2013’s debut album - the critically acclaimed ‘Blood Donation’ – ‘Love Everything’ is written, produced and self-released on Wallentin’s own label Repeat Until Death on October 20th.

In addition to her solo work as Mariam The Believer, Wallentin is one half of vocal-and-drum-duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums with husband Andreas Werliin. She is also a founding member and composer in the big band mayhem that is Fire! Orchestra. With musical roots partly in improvisation, partly in pop and soul, her career path has crossed diverse musical territories - from choir compositions, drum circles, free form jazz constellations to a lead part in a modern opera by Ben Frost. Equipped with her courageously uncompromising approach to music-making Wallentin started Mariam the Believer to focus her expression into a pop project.

On ‘Love Everything’ Wallentin invited a wide range of musicians to collaborate. In total 15 musicians took part resulting in songs that twist and turn evolving organically with each contribution. From vocalist virtuoso Sofia Jernberg to drone experimentalist Oren Ambarchi and free form jazz star Mats Gustavsson, it’s an eclectic roll call, yet despite that Love Everything is at its very core, a collection of pure pop melodies.

At the heart of the music is a manifestation of the album title itself - an appeal to embrace opportunity, to turn to love as a concrete solution. Wallentin traverses life’s big questions, those of love and loss, the mystery of eternity and emptiness via the bodily and circumstantial conditions we are born with and stuck with. ‘Love Everything’ is turning to love as a healing power of choice — a choice we make in every situation, in every moment every day and it is a choice of bravery.

”How to be free is to look around / To see and hear that we are all the same” - from ‘Pieces’.

Traditionally rhythm and drums been the companion escorting Wallentin’s voice but on ‘Love Everything’, she lets melodies lead the way – the piano flowing with harmonies that emphasise Wallentin’s powerful and at times raw, honest voice. The songs are ripe, ready to be eaten, before metamorphosing into new structures and an unexpected richness. Power ballads are interrupted by a change of rhythms. Enchanting vocals turn into pulsating R’n’B, as if new opportunities are lurking behind every corner.

‘Love Everything’ draws from the heritage of love stories that in some way or another have shaped us all. In Wallentin’s lyricism, the heart is a muscle pumping blood. Approaching spiritual subjects rooted in the human body and nature, she pulls esoteric themes into a context and – as pop music has the power to do – reaches dizzying heights. At the end of the day, to love is an act of courage.

On releasing her self-written and produced album via her own imprint Repeat Until Death, Wallentin says: “Music is a sacred place where all dimensions of me can exist simultaneously. I have a will not to be reduced but to be set free.”

New Mariam The Believer video

October 13, 2017

Mariam The Believer has recently released a new stunning video for the single BODYLIFE, have a look at it below.

Bodylife is a celebration of the power of the body and everything it carries inside.A dance on the edge between life and death, and a thirst for all drops of life that fills up a human. A song of surrender, with a wish for acceptance for when the pulse will stop and the heart not beat. But it´s beating still.

With heaven-high mantras, wild guitars from Oren Ambarchi and driving storms of keyboards, Bodylife pushes the body to move and not stop until it has to.
Because the body is made of movement and movement is life.

The video for Bodylife is directed, filmed and edited by Ylva Henriksson, in collaboration with Mariam. Two close childhood-friends whom in total trust shut themselves in a black space and danced for two days.

Pieces, brand new song from Mariam The Believer is premiered and made Song of the day!

May 25, 2017

The Line of Best Fit has premiered Pieces, Mariam The Believers new anthem and single.

New song Crust from Mariam The Believer!

March 03, 2017

Outside Verona and spring fever

February 22, 2016

Time Is a Mountain has a wonderful new video out for their song Outside Verona, made by brilliant video maker Jacek Zmarz, have a look below!

Trailer for II

October 15, 2015

Pre-Order is Up for "II"!

October 06, 2015

Pre-Order is Up for “II”!

TAPE FEST!

September 29, 2015

Time Is a Mountain and Mariam The Believer will play in Stockholm 21 & 22 of October @ Rönnells Antikvariat, it will be two great evenings of art and music with all profit donated to UNHCR, you can find more info about the event here http://ronnells.se/kalendarium/tape-fest-stockholm-p-rnnells

NEW RELEASE COMING!

September 13, 2015

We are very happy and proud to release Time is A Mountain´s new album ll. A beautiful hand-numbered and limited 180 g LP, coloured outer and inner sleeve and with CD included. Release date is 23/10 2015 and pre-orders will be up soon so keep your eyes and ears out…

Summer 2015 Live Dates!

June 05, 2015

We are happy to have the Repeat Until Death artist´s on the road this summer, here is were you can catch them live and also buy nice vinyls and cds straight from the makers

New Release!

February 12, 2015

The trio Nuiversum (Lisa Ullen, Mariam Wallentin & Nina de Heney) has released their first full length album Ballads of Now & When. 140 g beautiful transparent vinyl with b/w sleeve/ innersleve w lyrics and original artwork by Lauren Tamaki. It is a wonderful piece of work full of freedom & playfulness, pushing borders and moving energy around. Now up for order.

Welcome!

January 07, 2015

This is the very first post on this very new page. We are excited to get started, to slowly but steady create a home for our music and the music that we love. Repeat Until Death is a small record label based in Stockholm, Sweden. The label is run by Mariam Wallentin and Andreas Werliin. At the moment we have 3 releases and one digital EP release. Mariam The Believer “Blood Donation”, Wildbirds & Peacedrums ”Rhythm”, Nuiversum “Ballads of Now & When” (to be released January 14th 2015 but you can order it already, go for it) and Mariam The Believer ”The Wind EP” (digital only, for now).