artist Mary Cobham

Mary Cobham tends to produce concept albums.  The necessity of keeping consistent themes probably stems from her being more of an academic than a musician.  -Don't get me wrong!  -She is extremely musical and a good songwriter!  Its just that she's also really into reading and research.  She usually finds parallels between her reading and the themes in her life; and, the process of relating new information to her own situation tends to result in a deeper understanding of life.  This all ends up as songs.

In 2004, or maybe it was 2005, Mary released "Songs in the Key of Jay", a mirthful album attempting to investigate, sonically, the obsessions that she and so many other young girls develop over fresh-faced, celebrity boys.  The album was inspired by her own childhood experience of, for example, truly believing that she and Jordan Knight were going to get married, if he would just give her a chance!  Mary chose Jay Ferguson of Sloan as the object of her album (and adult crush).

Mary's long overdue second album, Mazeway Resynthesis, is about the process of mental reorganization (both individual and collective) that follows immense losses and failures.  It is the creation of those new philosophies and ethical codes that must replace stagnant ones.  The characteristics of mazeway resynthesis resemble those of psychosis and other mental illnesses; thus, the album reconsiders, perhaps, notions about the meaning and purpose of "insanity", and its music attempts to describe the phases of the process.  Mazeway, though stressful, is all about healing, and learning how to function again.  Mazeway Resynthesis, the album, recalls Mary's own undergoing of this process after the expiration of her own reasons for living.  It was also inspired by historical incidences of this this process as experienced by Islamic prophets, survivors of serious trauma, greek gods, and prehistoric creatures.  The album will come out in August 2011.