Maple Bee | Chasing Eva – Double CD album

Maple Bee’s first critically acclaimed solo album ‘Chasing Eva’ was released in 2004 and was created over a period of two years after she had her baby Cassius Nymh. The rich Victorian Gothic artwork on the cover perfectly sets the tone for the record. Within, brooding tracks steeped in dark undertones meet gentle acoustic moments, poetic lyrics drift through layers of sampled noise and inventive sound effects, and choruses emerge that are irresistibly catchy. Maple Bee’s love of sound is unmistakable with her arrangements which are never cluttered. Each element, whether a recorder, pitch-shifted white noise, experimental guitar layers, lilting whimsical cellos or whispered vocal layer, is given room to breathe and shine in its own space. Featuring brilliant Andy Nice on Cello (Tindersticks, Instrumental and Radio Science Orchestra) Chasing Eva is a minimal, ambitious and seminal piece of work.