Hailing from a village in Scotland called Ballindalloch, Hidden Mother is a new outlet for the talents of Brèagha Cuinn. You may be familiar with her as she's also guitarist/vocalist with 2 piece vegan, straight edge, riot grrrl punk band Bratakus (https://bratakus.bandcamp.com/). Recorded in her bedroom, she's just released an spookily atmospheric cover of The Distillers' classic Sing Sing Death Camp. It's a different beast to the raucous original though future recordings won't all be in this style, I've been told we can expect a variety if styles.
What better way to introduce Hidden Mother than in Brèagha's own words...
"Hidden Mother is a project I started a couple of years ago when I was first writing the new Bratakus album. I wrote an entire album and was really unhappy with it. I had a bit of an existential crisis about how musically what I was doing was just the same old thing. I felt like the new songs I wrote could have just been on the first album, so there was no musical growth and no reason to put out another album. I felt a bit trapped by the rules I had put in place for myself when I started writing Bratakus songs. It kind of took the joy out of writing music. So, I decided to start writing other songs that weren't for Bratakus, in any style that I wanted to and it really helped. I managed to go back to writing the Bratakus album with a fresh enthusiasm and write songs I was actually pleased with! At first, I didn't intend for anyone to hear the random songs I wrote, but I now have an entire albums worth of them, so I put out that Distillers cover to test the waters and see if people would be interested in hearing non Bratakus music from me. People were really nice about it, so I'm definitely going to try and get all my original songs recorded and put them out this year.
The name Hidden Mother comes from a type of photography from the Victorian era that I'm obsessed with where a mother would sit shrouded in a sheet holding her child up on her lap. It came about so that you could have pictures of babies and young children who either couldn't sit up on their own, or couldn't sit still long enough for a photograph sitting on their own without anther person visible in the photo. The results were always quite creepy and ghostly though!" You can find the song as a name your price download here :
Sing Sing Death House...
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