Maia Friedman has shared a new video for “On Passing,” the multi-artist’s track is now available via via Last Gang Records/MNRK. Co-produced with Philip Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker, Florist) and Oliver Hill (Magdalena Bay, Helado Negro, Wet).  The accompanying video was made by Ryan Faist and is composed of footage shot by Maia.

Maia penned “On Passing” “as the health of two close friends were in rapid decline, with illnesses that led to both of their untimely deaths,” she elaborates. “Processing end-of-life is at once entirely natural and human, and at the same time, entirely abstract and unimaginable. It feels impossible to fathom, thus we vacillate through emotions; despair, anger, disbelief, confusion, and often eventually settle into a permanent melancholy (the quiet sadness) that will forever be tied to the memory of those we’ve lost. I find it healing to celebrate these memories in ephemeral moments of magic; a leaf falling from a tree, the glint and reflection of sun on water, a particular scent in the air, a bird that visits our windowsill unexpectedly.”

Inspired by her upbringing in the Sierra National Forest region of California, she often invokes a devotion to the natural world in her writing—an attunement to what is wild and divine in both the existential and the everyday. Her voice is a captivating centerpiece, lending a unique quality of warm comfort to every syllable.

In the two years since Under The New Light, Maia wrote, recorded, and toured with her various collaborative projects and gave birth to her daughter. This series of transformative experiences inspired new creative desires – to observe the world with unwavering empathy, to explore fresh musical colors, and to commit fully to world-building. There will be more new music from Friedman coming in 2025.

Order “On Passing” by Maia Friedman HERE