Mage Tears x Ebril

The work of 22-year old Iraqi-Canadian artist Ebril blends the outside world with the deep confines of her insides to produce works carefully crafted with intimate songwriting and distinct floral production. Her self produced album "In Copula” plays on themes of identity, adolescence, and biology. Coming from a science background, Ebril references the environment around her to describe the emotions and experiences of growing up as a first generation immigrant, using flora and fauna to represent her longing for freedom and flight. Struggling to find a space that felt right to explore her unique expression of culture and art, Ebril’s world building through ‘In Copula’ achieves the realm of space she needed to feel connected to her real world with sounds recorded from inside her room of the world happening outside. ‘In Copula’ takes listeners on a journey starting from dawn till dusk, Ebril tells her story with each song capturing a moment in her life and a narrative of its own. Songs like “Stranger in You’ sonically set the scenery with ambient atmospheres of insects and birds along with a nostalgic electronic and acoustic instrumental to create a serene pocket for listeners to experience the music. Songs like “Anticipate Heartbreak” - a lush electronic shoegaze track that evokes a melancholic atmosphere for longing - places listeners in a purgatory space between identity and belonging with field recordings captured from Ebril’s home town in Jordan. Ebril’s debut ‘In Copula’ is a glimpse into her vast range for pushing the envelope of song production to build individual worlds with sound and story telling through unique songwriting.