AE Mak : Folk Songs for Mama & Papa

After years of making genre-defying, other-worldly pop music and performing visceral, kinetic shows across Europe and the UK, Folk Songs For Mama & Papa by Irish artist AE Mak (Aoife McCann) marks a quiet and profound shift. Mainly inspired by her own spirit and influenced by artists such as Bjrk, Judee Sill, Aldous Harding and Paul Simon, the album steps away from character-making and toward essence. It is a cosmical – spiritual folk record rooted in voice, breath, and emotional resonance in the body.

The songs were written in the Winter during a time of deep emotional pain and self-questioning. Living alone in a Berlin apartment, AE Mak began writing at a friends piano, singing poems formed over a year of anxiety, low self-worth and self-reckoning directly into melody. The music came quickly, not as an idea to be shaped but as something that already felt there. The recorded demos were later brought to Bran Mac Gloinn of Ye V