Mira Black has formulated a new series of artistic creations combining her skill of storytelling with her open hearted original compositions. This journey will break your heart, challenge your opinions and awaken your senses. Fiery lessons of Love and Life to breakthrough moments of freedom and clarity. An adventure of vulnerability and courage witnessed by our nomadic wonderer and told through the prose and music it inspired. These skilled artists utilize their love of improvisation, depth of presence and masterful musical knowledge to create a raw soulful connection.
Mira’s artistic history reflects her diverse set of musical influences and eclectic background. She combines folk and contemporary pop with the sensibilities of jazz and spoken word, forging a new and unique style that is somehow totally familiar. As a performer, she both enthrals and moves her audience as she shares her personal journey and battles in a way that touches even the most cynical observer. Her new show combines Mira's skill of storytelling through spoken word with her open-hearted, original songs. The theatrical performance takes you on a journey that will break your heart, challenge your opinions, and awaken your senses and compassion towards the taboo subjects of mental health and violence against women/children and her devotion to healing our Men. Mira and her troupe utilize a love of communication through jazz improvisation, the passion of gospel and storytelling to create a raw soulful connection while contributing to the conversations about mental health awareness.
"One of Canada's best kept secrets"
~ Macleans Magazine
"Mira Black creates a circus for the heart!"
~CBC Radio Canada
"No box defines her."
~ Huffington Post
"Smoky vocals weaving through haunting melodies."
~ RHiG Magazine
"I'm inspired by your depth of emotion and connection created through music."
~Sarah McLachlan (songwriter)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIRA BLACK REDEFINES ELECTRONICA WITH MESH OF SUBTLE BEATS, A DASH OF JAZZ & INTENSELY AFFECTING VOCALS AND HEART OPENING LYRICS
"I write so I won’t forget. I can go back and learn or seek answers or just be with my love again in the present moment. What happens next? What happened then? It’s about the choices, whether over that whole tub of Haagen Daz or with the entire bottle of Glenfiddich, crying over the surrounding boxes and empty spaces or dancing about the freedoms, the unknown and the lessons learned. My music is about my heart which returns to certain moments and re-negotiates the memory more deeply or at least differently than the first time I experienced it. It’s my purging of the end or lamenting about a beginning. Every time I visit that moment I can see and learn something new. The pain and the pleasure both bring me the same passion. ~Mira Black"
Black's Western Canadian Music Award nominee album, “MIRA,” veers to the left of any neatly defined musical genre. She is indeed that rare artist who defies convention. Her new project aims to redefine cultural understandings and philosophies around abused and survivor pointing towards the details in a way that can unify rather than divide or even repel. Forgiveness and love are her mantra. Mira perpetuates dark and difficult conversations while shining the light for those vulnerable topics to bloom through the muck of confusion towards triumphant understanding.
Produced by iconic Chicago House Music legend Vince Lawrence, her 2012 self titled release has a sound founded in ambient electronica, but stripped down into sparse stop-and-start beats that trickle, ooze & percolate, ultimately allowing her potent vocals & intimate lyrics to rise to the surface.
"Mira's voice will change the way you experience music."
~Vince Lawrence
Slang Music Group Chicago ILL
“Getting to the core of Mira’s philosophies became our mission,” says Lawrence, “We start with a rough electronic sketch painted across her organic ideas, but as I listen her sing & understand the poetry in her compositions—how emotional every word is—I like to stay away from too many beats. We ultimately aim to shape something that is subtle & immersive, where you feel every word she’s saying. It distills past any fluff & is profoundly touching.”
Writing for Mira is about purging as a mechanism to perpetuate growth; speaking deep personal Truths as a way to heal. Those experiences provided tools for authentic analysis & lessons around childhood conditioning, heartbreak, personal Divinity & True love. Working together changed both Vince & Mira as artists. Lawrence says, “The very definition of music is ‘organized sound over time.’ This is sound design, with the musical elements building from Mira’s intense vocals, raw musical compositions, lyrics & proudly honest storytelling. We drilled beyond the BS to a basic core message." Mira's art is a labour of Love in the truest sense of the word.
"The more authentic and conscious I can be about my experience, the more it will touch yours. And then we can walk together on even the darkest roads."
~Mira Black
She's now embarking upon her next album embracing the depth of her inner troubadour, organic jazz and folk foundations, theatrical presentation and vulnerably raw lyrics back to the live stage where she belongs.
"I'll never forget you Mira Black!"
Richard Gear (actor)