NEW MUSIC SPECIAL
Introducing Mariska Martina TEXT: ANNA VILLELEGER | PHOTOS: GARY HEISS
Here at Discover Benelux magazine we love promoting the region’s rising musical talents. This month we meet Mariska Martina, a London-based singer-songwriter from Holland, whose soothing vocals and heartfelt lyrics have earned comparisons to Joni Mitchell. 72 | Issue 76 | April/May 2020
DB: We love your EP Feathers, could you tell us a bit more about it? MM: Feathers started as a concept. I wrote a few brutally honest songs about my mental health, in quite a different style than anything I’d ever done before. I decided I wanted to record them
in a stripped down setting - not only because it was cheaper, but also because I thought it fitted the songs better. I started recording demos with my producer Roddy in his basement home-studio and the situation allowed us to take half a year to experiment with the songs. It was