Macie Stewart
A multi-instrumentalist who specializes in strings and piano, Macie Stewart had experience in projects spanning classical, avant-garde jazz, and indie music by the time she co-founded Finom (fka Ohmme), an experimental indie pop act known for its striking vocal harmonies, with Sima Cunningham in the mid-2010s. Stewart played, sang, and/or arranged for artists including SZA, Whitney, and Chance the Rapper before making her solo debut in 2021 with an album of delicate chamber folk, Mouth Full of Glass. An expanded, international reissue followed in 2022.
The daughter of a career musician (pianist Sami Scot), Macie Stewart started playing the piano around the time she learned to talk. Growing up in Chicago, she became proficient at both piano and violin by the time she helped found the bands Kids These Days and Marrow while in high school. Her Marrow bandmate Liam Cunningham (aka Liam Kazar) had a sister, Sima Cunningham, with whom she would later form Ohmme in 2014, following some time in Chicago's avant-garde jazz scene.
Generating a rich sound out of a small number of elements, the experimental indie pop project Ohmme quickly drew attention for their striking vocal harmonies and angular guitar patterns. Stewart and Cunningham released their first EP, Ohmme, on the Overcoat label in 2017. In the meantime, the duo sang backup for Chance the Rapper and sang and wrote string arrangements for Twin Peaks' song "Tossin' Tears." In August 2018, the full-length Parts (Joyful Noise) found them expanding their musical palette with additional instrumental colors, including contributions from an official third member, percussionist Matt Carroll. Ohmme toured extensively in support of the album, and their months away from home informed the songs that became their second LP, Fantasize Your Ghost, produced by Chris Cohen and released in June 2020. During this time period, Stewart drew on her varied background in jazz, classical, and Irish folk music to write arrangements for the likes of Whitney, SZA, Knox Fortune, and others.
Stewart had begun writing solo material in 2019, which she then recorded with engineer Dave Vettraino before finishing the album herself during pandemic stay-at-home orders in 2020. Orindal Records released the completed, eight-track Mouth Full of Glass in North America in September 2021. Ohmme rebranded as Finom in mid-2022, and in November, U.K. label Full Time Hobby issued an expanded edition of Stewart's solo debut with two additional songs ("Defeat" and "Maya, Please") outside of North America; "Maya, Please" was made available Stateside as a single by Orindal.
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Discografia
14 album • Ordinato per Bestseller
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Defeat
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Orindal Records il 20 ott 2022
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Mouth Full of Glass
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Orindal Records il 24 set 2021
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Mouth Full of Glass
Folk - Pubblicato da Full Time Hobby il 11 nov 2022
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Macie Stewart on Audiotree Live
Jazz - Pubblicato da Audiotree Music il 21 set 2021
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Neon Lights
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Full Time Hobby il 24 ago 2023
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Maya, Please
Folk - Pubblicato da Full Time Hobby il 19 lug 2022
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Mouth Full of Glass
Folk - Pubblicato da Full Time Hobby il 24 set 2021
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Finally
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Orindal Records il 12 lug 2021
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Garter Snake
Musica alternativa e indie - Pubblicato da Orindal Records il 1 giu 2021
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Queen Anne
Rock - Pubblicato da Whirlwind Recordings il 12 mag 2020
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