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Midwife
Midwife
[ she/her ]
city: Denvercountry: USA
genre: Experimental
styles: Experimental Guitar, Shoegaze, Experimental Pop, Ambient
NMP
Single
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Madeline Johnston (Midwife) and Angel Diaz (Vyva Melinkolya) became close friends in 2020, regarding each other as a lifeline when things were difficult in their personal lives. This friendship was born from music but quickly became so much more than that. The two met in person in 2021, when Angel came for a recording residency at Madeline’s studio in New Mexico. It was during this session that they wrote and recorded Orbweaving, in the heat of summer in the arid Chihuahuan Desert.
At night, Angel and Madeline went Herping (a term used by herpetologists to describe looking for snakes and amphibians) along the empty roads near Las Cruces. The asphalt retains heat from the day, and the snakes absorb the warmth by writhing across the pavement. They found rattlesnakes, roadkill, and orb-weaver spiders.
Orbweaving combines the best parts of Midwife’s Heaven Metal and Vyva Melinkolya’s sentimental, classic shoegaze in a way that distinctively elevates both artists. The record explores themes hopelessness, calling on a higher power, being alone, and the sublime horror of the natural world. Orbweaving seeks to thematically and sonically create a web like structure - a gauze of sorrow and visceral connective thread.
latest releases
LP
No Depression In Heaven
out on September 06, 2024
via The Flenser
Single
Vanessa
out on August 13, 2024
via The Flenser
Single
Do You Know How To Waltz
out on May 24, 2024
via The Flenser
Single
Midwife / Planning for Burial Split
out on August 11, 2023
via Whited Sepulchre Records
LP
Orbweaving
out on May 12, 2023
via The Flenser
Single
Plague X
out on May 09, 2023
via The Flenser
