Photo by Senny Mau

“I imagined this as a kind of lonesome cowboy song, an ode to the night,” explains Maria BC of “Night & day”. “When his workday is over and the sun’s gone down, he can be with the one he loves, and speak freely, feel deeply. This time is so precious to him, he often gets carried away and clings to it desperately. Then the morning brings shame, stupor, new longing.”

You don’t need to be a cowboy to find the latest reverie from the ambient folk songwriter’s third full-length album, Marathon, to be of the same air that follows you into your own darkest hours, however. Every minute we get away from the confines of the grind to do, exist, and be still as we please becomes something of a sacred time we define for ourselves. Here, Maria BC — aided by the nightspell saxophone of Bay Area peer Cole Pulice — weaves its energy in their own design that, for its moment, reaches that spiritual sound. Somewhere out there in the universe, David Lynch is vindicated by someone not interrupting the dream.

Directed by: F. Saber Sutphin

Maria BC’s Marathon will be released February 27th on Sacred Bones Records.