10 December 2021 - 0 Comments

Queensland based, Kiwi artist Eden Mulholland has released his pensive new single The Wild Wind, out today.

Melancholic with it’s sparse piano and reflective vocals, the track was originally written as a 30 second piece for the TVNZ drama ‘The Pact’. Now fleshed out into a full single, The Wild Wind expands on the show's themes of both despair and hope, as well as the ebb and flow of life, love and family.

“It was written for a crucial scene in ‘The Pact’, where the family gathers one last time to say their goodbyes to the ones who have chosen to voluntarily euthanize,” says Eden. “It's a pretty heavy tearjerker moment; both for that feeling of impending departure, as well as setting aside differences in the face of suffering.”

With the TVNZ series offering inspiration for the original piece, the full single also draws on experiences from Eden’s own life.

“It totally reminds me of my own family and the perfectly normal dysfunction of it all. People do crazy shit all the time and we all moan about meaningless stuff! But we all gotta get on with it - this business of living and dying.”

Recorded at Eden Mulholland’s home on his old and out of tune baby grand piano, The Wild Wind was mixed by Eden’s brother Jolyn Mulholland at The Oven in Tāmaki Makaurau, and mastered by Oliver Harmer at The Lab Recording Studio.

Eden Mulholland is an award-winning composer, collaborator and songwriter, working and performing with artists such as Amy Shark and Boy & Bear. As a composer, Eden’s works have been labeled ‘seductively powerful’ by Performing Arts Hub, with Rip It Up publication describing his live sound as “a superb racket of experimental crescendos, cyclic drones, aching falsettos and all manner of pedal mayhem.”

Keep an ear out for more exciting and groundbreaking music to come from this prolific Kiwi artist.

Listen HERE

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Photo Credit: Jocelyn Janon

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