Mahuna’s debut album Forever Is Mine, released on May 30th, is a majestic work in its simplistic, intimate, introspective evolution. It’s 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, “The Road I Have Wandered,” soft strums and glistening overtones pair with Mahuna’s warm baritone to capture the ache and hope of leaving the past behind. It’s a delicate farewell, less about nostalgia and more about release.
The title track “Forever Is Mine” arrives like a soft breath, born out of a Belfast childhood and reawakened by the light falling on Mahuna’s son. His voice trails between lines, blurring the edges between past and present, with his meditative, profound, and suspended storytelling. When he sings “At this moment, forever is mine,” he gives all he has.
One of my personal favorites, “Underneath a Hazel Tree,” remains bewitching. I reviewed it before and immediately hearted it. There’s something trance-like in the way Mahuna sings, reflective, half somnolent in the reverie of his memory reimagined, as though he’s under a spell of his own making. The lyrics unfold like an incantation: “Still I see my father standing / Underneath a hazel tree.”
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