With “a voice for the gods that can transport listeners to other realms” (Boston Globe), Mary Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s NYC-based chamber-pop group October Project; a band known for their lush harmonies, sweeping melodies and Fahl’s unique and powerful vocals.

After two records on Epic, the band disbanded, but Fahl had more freedom to pursue her own muse, whether that meant writing and recording songs for movies (including the theme for the Civil War epic “Gods and Generals”), singing arias and medieval Spanish songs for Sony Classical or releasing a unique album-length take on “Dark Side of the Moon.”

Fahl’s music has a timeless quality that she conveys with earthy, viscerally powerful contralto that bridges the generational gap between Fairport Convention’s Sandy Denny and London Grammar’s Hannah Reid.

Her elegant, cinematic songs have a hauntingly gothic romanticism that inspired renowned writer Anne Rice to portray Mary’s voice emanating from a dead woman’s room in her 2013 novel “The Wolves of Midwinter.”

Over the past few years, she’s been touring and recording on her own label, Rimar Records, and her recent releases have garnered awards including an Indie Acoustic Award for Best Live Album for “Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House” (filmed for PBS) and a 2020 Independent Music Award for her recent holiday album, “Winter Songs and Carols”.

Coming on the heels of her last release, a Blu-ray 5.1 surround DVD, “From the Dark Side of the Moon,” brilliantly mixed by Bob Clearmountain, and which won the 2021 Immersive Album Audio Listener’s Choice award and was also named “Immersive Album of the Year” by Life in Surround, her brand new album Can’t Get It Out of My Head is out now via Rimar Records.

1. Can’t Get It Out of My Head
2. Ruby Tuesday
3. Tuesday Afternoon
4. River Man
5. Got A Feelin’
6. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
7. Comfortably Numb
8. Since You’ve Asked
9. Beware Of Darkness
10. The Great Valerio

Opening on a quite stunning rendition of the Electric Light Orchestra’s track Can’t Get It Out of My Head, that is seamlessly followed by her bravado-infused take on the Stones’ Ruby Tuesday, a simply divine revitalization of The Moody Blues’ Tuesday Afternoon, an elegantly crafted take on Nick Drake’s River Man and then comes the lushly orchestrated Got A Feelin’ (The Mamas & the Papas).

Up next on this organically-crafted and veritably translucently vocalized new album is Fahl’s sturdy take on Neil Young’s Don’t Let It Bring You Down and then her almost-breathy offering of Pink Floyd’s slice of harmony and focused energy within Comfortably Numb is brought forth, and they are in turn followed by the summer’s breeze of Judy Collins’ ethereal Since You’ve Asked, the album rounding out on the brilliantly heartfelt George Harrison cut Beware Of Darkness, coming to an all too soon close on her version of Richard & Linda Thompson’s stoic The Great Valerio.

As for a deeper dive into her brand new album Can’t Get It Out of My Head, the collection of songs are what she herself has termed “essential” to her development as an artist: “With all the madness that was happening in the world, I was grappling with the loss of my mother and sister this past year and was feeling completely rootless. In an effort to find an anchor, a link to the past, a sense of home, I began to immerse myself in the comfort of music from my youth.”

“These were such essential songs for me ... like old friends ... my musical home in many ways. I fell in love with each of them at the quintessential coming-of-age moment when music goes straight into your heart with no filter and these songs became part of my musical DNA.”

“I learned to play guitar with several of them – especially the early Neil Young songs. Most of these covers come from the first albums I ever bought using one of those Columbia House ‘get 12 free albums for a $1’ mail order programs. I played these records endlessly and the lyrics on many of these songs still have a powerful resonance for me.”

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