Maybe Marcel

Written and recorded between January and June 2025, her brand new offering emerged during a period of profound difficulty, as Wisnia’s mother was hospitalised following a severe stroke. Traveling frequently between Bordeaux and her home in Le Mans, Wisnia found solace in creating music, immersing herself in sound to process her emotions. “The only thing I was really able to do was make music. It would throw me into a universe of sound where I could focus on something I could control,” she says.“When molto morbidi began, I think I was using music mainly as a means of expression - It was about feeling something intensely and creating something that acted as a kind of doppelgänger artefact of that feeling in the hope of releasing myself from it,” Wisnia continues. “What I experienced last year was very different. I found peace in music by approaching it rather almost like a craft - something slow, patient, contemplative, something you can lose yourself in through sound. I didn’t feel any rush or any need to release myself from anything, because I accepted my sadness as part of a situation I had no control over.”Piano, Wisnia’s first instrument, forms a central thread throughout the record, sometimes playful, sometimes meditative, whileguitars and synths provide moments of unexpected contrast. Vocally, Wisnia embraces intimacy and imperfection: “I wanted to be unapologetic about my voice. It’s produced to feel as close as possible to how it actually sounds - intimate and raw, like folk music.”The album’s title came from a small, peculiar moment: “At the end of November 2025, I had a slightly creepy text exchange with someone whose number I hadn’t saved, so my phone labelled them “Maybe: Marcel”. I found it funny and oddly beautiful, and it stuck with me. When it came time to name the album, it felt perfect: light and amusing on the surface, but tied to something sad and unsettling, like the record.”That mix of the playful and the unsettling runs throughout Maybe Marcel, which explores fear, uncertainty, hope, and resilience. Songs move fluidly from the ironic theatricality of the opening track, through contemplative reflections on relationships, friendship, and family, to meditations on personal and collective hardship.Fans of Kate Bush, Cate Le Bon, Mega Bog, Kristine Leschper and Laurie Anderson will recognise Maybe Marcel’s lineage, but the album resists easy categorisation. It draws from post-punk, folk, krautrock, experimental pop and antediluvian electronics without ever settling into one place.“What inspires me are artists who stand by their influences while transcending traditions,” she explains. “Artists who are recognisably their own.”Drawing inspiration from everything from Siouxsie Sioux to The Raincoats to Broadcast, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and ESG, Wisnia balances melodic sensibility with the experimentally daring, creating a body of work that is both timeless and wholly original.