Nurture by marine eyes + IKSRE
***Originally released in January of 2023 via Past Inside the Present (https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/nurture) + now available on my own Bandcamp page too.***
Nurture on Past Inside the Present is from Los Angeles-based musician and artist, marine eyes (Cynthia Bernard), and Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist and sound healer, IKSRE (Phoebe Dubar).
After hearing each other’s music, it quickly became apparent that the two were kindred spirits from other sides of the world. When a conversation started about their love of field recording, the idea sparked to create an album through sharing their captured nature sounds in an email pen-pal format. Going back and forth, the two would get a field recording and then write about where they were from, attaching photos and videos. The mail became a geographical lesson, and also an uncovering of each other’s emotional landscapes. After receiving the email, they would each start a new song using that field recording and story. When it was snowy in California (Abalone Sky), it was the height of heat in Melbourne (Rainforest Dawn), and with these differences in hemispheres, they could transport to alternate seasons while working on songs from their home studios. This cemented a creative friendship cultivated in nature, music & holding space for each other’s stories in creative living and motherhood.
Nurture is a blend of ambient drone, neo-classical, sound healing, dream-pop and gentle lullabies enveloping the listener with a sense of belonging, comfort, & introspection, whispering that in nature we can always come back to ourselves, and in turn be there for others in a deeper way.
Tracklist
| 1. | Abalone Sky | 5:42 |
| 2. | Rainforest Dawn | 5:16 |
| 3. | Tourmaline | 4:20 |
| 4. | You'll Grow | 4:56 |
| 5. | San Francisquito Moonrise | 3:36 |
| 6. | Full Moon in Marengo | 4:19 |
| 7. | Bones Knowing | 4:01 |
| 8. | Forgiveness | 5:31 |
| 9. | Sun Circles | 4:56 |
Credits
Written, produced, and performed by Cynthia Bernard and Phoebe Dubar
Mixed and mastered at Ambient Mountain House by James Bernard
Additional mixing by Cynthia Bernard and Phoebe Dubar
Cover art by Cynthia Bernard
Layout by zakè
Instruments used in the creation of this album:
Cynthia Bernard- Fender Stratocaster, Sterling StingRay bass, Sequential Take 5 PolySynth, Op-1, keyboards and synthesizers (Keyscape, Omnisphere), vocals, field recordings and pedals (Strymon El Capistan, Strymon Big Sky, Hologram Microcosm, TC-Helicon Voicelive Touch 2, Chase Bliss Mood)
Phoebe Dubar- Korg Minilogue, Himalayan singing bowls, sansula, RAV drum, swinging bar chimes, Alchemy Crystal singing bowls (Platinum, Grandmother + Crone Goddess), 528hz crystal singing bowl, Moog Mother 32, Moog Grandmother, viola, Monolina Monochord, Buffalo drum, piano, shruti box, avalanche run pedal, vocals and field recordings
License
All rights reserved.
As marine eyes, Los Angeles based Cynthia Bernard blends ambient, shoegaze, drone, field recordings & dream pop + folk—writing from a narrative place born in the present moment yet interwoven with lessons from her past.
She finds herself regularly lost and found exploring the healing qualities of sound and cementing important moments she has experienced while welcoming stillness in nature.