“Marzanna” - Marianne Nowottny

Some albums feel like projects, and others feel like pilgrimages. Marianne Nowottny’s Marzanna is definitely the latter. Long whispered about, nearly derailed by broken hard drives and lost files, and stretched across a five-year haze of stops and starts, the record has finally surfaced—and it’s worth every ounce of the struggle that went into making it. This isn’t just a covers album; it’s a séance. With Marzanna, Nowottny resurrects her longtime alter ego and reanimates songs by Kate Bush, Bowie, Joni, and Siouxsie—not as nostalgia pieces, but as living, breathing works reimagined in her singular voice.