maria minerva

Here's the latest from Jason Grier's "(anti)love jams" project Heart Shaped Rock, which features some of his female friends on vocals. We posted up the first Nite Jewel contribution last summer, and now Grier has unveiled a few more HSR jams, including this one featuring Estonian bedroom disco songstress Maria Minerva...

Transparent is set to release a new Keep Shelly in Athens digital EP, featuring remixes of the duo's latest sold-out 7" single by the likes of Blood Diamonds and D. Paris, plus this Maria Minerva rework, in which she distantly warbles some old Spice Girls jam karaoke-style over a woozy, warped version of KSiA's "Song to Cheer You Up...

Appropriately New Agey vid for London-via-Estonia songstress Maria Minerva's dreamy, gauzy bedroom ballad "California Scheming," which appears on her now sold-out Talinn at Dawn cassette. Directed by Ando Naulainen. mp3:

New "90s-ized satin-sheets dream ballads" from Estonia/London's Maria Minerva. Her warped, occasionally unsettling / always entrancing bedroom disco is certainly deserving of the "early Nite Jewel" comparisons that are bound to keep popping up, but Pocahaunted siren and 100% Silk boss Amanda Brown maybe nails it best with the absurdly specific (and accurate) description, "