‘Another Time and Place’ by Maria Minerva
Steeped in feminist idealogues and academic references —her most recent album Cabaret Cixous is named in part after feminist theorist Hélène Cixous— Maria’s art school pop politics can be quite esoteric. Her delivery mechanism is catchy (though quite experimental) hypnagogic house, and her voice dances around irony with a playfully coy detatchment, here beginning with atypical sexual advances (“I wanna dance with you boy / feeling you body close is giving me so much joy”), until taking a weirdly conceptual turn, with Maria revealing; “If you wanna know what this is all about, then let me just tell you my country’s crying out / for people to obey the law, to make some money, and make some love”, before making a quirky chorus out of; “State regulations and love (we’re so in love)”.
But the most challenging aspect of her approach is in fact the oddball way in which she articulates her vision of ‘dance music’; completely out of step with the clean, transcendent and effusive properties of traditional electronica, Another Time and Place feels as alien and as oblique as the narratives she presents.
(Source: youtube.com, via mhisadj)
