Premiere: Portraitures - “Museum”
Today the Cups N Cakes Network is excited to share with our readers a new single from Portraitures, the musical project from Toronto singer-songwriter Mark Scherzinger. What began as a personal outlet for Scherzinger has grown into a collaborative project with a rotating cast of musicians from Canada’s robust music community. Through these collaborations, Scherzinger explores authentic creativity with introspective songs that unfold like late-night confessions amongst those close friends. 60s psych-folk and pop collide with modern dream-pop to form a sound that is both nostalgic and immediate.
The single we are premiering today is called “Museum” and it explores the mundanity of work and the time lost with friends and family while navigating a dead-end job. It was co-written and performed with Scherzinger’s friend and collaborator Aniqa Qadir(Aniqa Dear) and also features instrumentalists Jon Catanus(Orbital Ensemble, Jennarie), Kelsey McNulty(Charlotte Cornfield), Ben Dwyer(Sister Ray, Sam Tudor), Jen Lo(Lavender Town) and Rachael Cardiello(Zinnia).
Scherzinger further explains the story behind “Museum”:
“I wrote “Museum” in a time when I was getting paid to more or less stand in a Museum gift shop for 6 hours a day. There was never anything to do but minor merchandising and cleaning, which often looked like pushing the dust from a construction project in the building around glass shelves covered in overpriced tchotchkes. That left a lot of time to think, particularly about family and friends I’ve lost or who have moved away. I know so many of my artist peers have had to work countless jobs like this alongside making music to survive in such an unaffordable city.”
We are premiering “Museum” today in the form of a video directed by Bradley Pearson that captures various museum monuments from the mid-late1800s in Toronto on 16mm film with scratch animation that helps tell the story. Please enjoy the video below and check out Portraitures back catalogue on Bandcamp.
