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Carino’s singing has been called, “powerful to the point of bringing you to tears” (Straight No Chaser) and “smoldering” (The New Yorker); her music, “enchanting - a testament to the healing powers of rhythm” (Nylon); her lyrics, “poetic, filled with imagery” (New York Post). Carino’s songs have been featured on prominent TV shows and films, including the FX hit Regenesis and the feature films Vampires in Venice and Someone Else.

 

Marilyn Carino’s musical saga began in 2003 in Brooklyn, NY in the form of Mudville, a band that produced three critically-acclaimed post-trip-hop-electro-jazz albums. As the singer and songwriter, Marilyn inflamed and stunned, praised as “Nina Simone coming back from the dead to front Morcheeba (Rhapsody)."

 

Moving on to her 2011 solo album, Little Genius and 2015’s Leaves, Sadness, Science (featuring ‘War and Peace’, co-written and performed by REM bassist Mike Mills), the music went spare, sexy and thick, her voice an affecting instrument with an elegant grittiness; soaring above violent organs and chunky beats, smoky-dark production, and themes that dig for hope.

 

After a UK tour in 2016 that led her to abandon America forever to live in Scotland, she continued with multi-year performances at Doune, Kelburn and Eden festivals until Covid and burnout made her nearly quit music altogether. In 2023, she regained her commitment to making music and joined forces with Del Amitri keyboardist Andy Alston and Orange Juice’s James Kirk to form Crooked Timbers, releasing an album of original songs. The three also released an album of songs based on the National Gallery of Scotland’s collection of 17th-19th-century broadsides, and did four performances of The Broadside Ballads live during the 2024 Edinburgh Festival.

 

Her mojo restored, she completed a seven-song EP, SISTER, a collection of dub, soul, electro, and trip-hop-infused songs reflecting the passion and complexity of her relationships with the women in her life. 

 

The first single, MUTE, will be released in April, 2025, with video by the acclaimed Nigerian-Swiss multimedia artist Onome Ekeh.

© 2025 Marilyn Carino

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