Vinterjazz: MOTHERMARY

Om koncerten

Projektet er opkaldt efter Kristi moder – det ultimative symbol på religiøst hykleri og de umulige forventninger, der stilles til kvinder – og er skabt af de enæggede tvillinger Elyse og Larena. De voksede op i en streng mormonfamilie i Missoula, Montana, som de yngste af en børneflok på næsten tolv. "Det var vores verden... vores verdensbillede," siger Larena om den tid. "Vi var blevet hjernevasket." Koncerten er en del af Vinterjazz Festival. MOTHERMARY: MOTHERMARY makes retro-futuristic Art Pop that refuses to behave. Named after the mother of Christ — the ultimate symbol of religious hypocrisy and the impossible expectations placed on women — the bicoastal project is the brainchild of identical twins Elyse & Larena, who grew up in a strict Mormon family in Missoula, Montana, the youngest of nearly a dozen children. "It was our world... our paradigm," Larena says about those days. "We were brainwashed." Elyse was the first to escape. After leaving the repression of religion and experiencing similar barriers in the music industry, she taught herself music production. "I wanted to have control over the sound. TOTAL control." Larena followed suit, left the church, and rejoined Elyse in NYC. Creating music together became a form of therapy. A way to process what they'd survived — the guilt, the shame, the manipulation disguised as devotion. The sound Elyse and Larena have created is

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