
Mahunaโs debut album Forever Is Mine, released on May 30th, is a majestic work in its simplistic, intimate, introspective evolution. Itโs like a journal of memories left out in the sun, faded at the edges but full of warmth. The Belfast-born, Berlin-based singer-songwriter has spent 25 years shaping this long-player, before turning it out to be a luminous, reflective experience.
In the opening track, โThe Road I Have Wandered,โ soft strums and glistening overtones pair with Mahunaโs warm baritone to capture the ache and hope of leaving the past behind. Itโs a delicate farewell, less about nostalgia and more about release.
The title track โForever Is Mineโ arrives like a soft breath, born out of a Belfast childhood and reawakened by the light falling on Mahunaโs son. His voice trails between lines, blurring the edges between past and present, with his meditative, profound, and suspended storytelling. When he sings โAt this moment, forever is mine,โ he gives all he has.
One of my personal favorites, โUnderneath a Hazel Tree,โ remains bewitching. I reviewed it before and immediately hearted it. Thereโs something trance-like in the way Mahuna sings, reflective, half somnolent in the reverie of his memory reimagined, as though heโs under a spell of his own making. The lyrics unfold like an incantation: โStill I see my father standing / Underneath a hazel tree.โ
With Forever Is Mine, Mahuna has brought forth a hushed, poetic landscape of memory, rooted in nature, family, and the quiet revelations of a life observed closely.
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Review by: Naomi Joan