What do you mean she had bullet holes in her mirrors? What does any of it mean? Sure, some things stick out from the back drop of modern life more that others... but I still haven’t figured out why tear drops smell like rain.

Melayne Web. She’s the opposite of the past, she’s about to happen! Maybe there isn’t much time, maybe she knows it. Whatever. She’s making it happen.
As with any truly musical experience, Melayne’s songs are part of her. There’s no distancing herself from the product. She is the product. “My music is the only place that allows me to be the 100% real me, ie: no ego or barriers or insecurities or reality or parking tickets or running eyeliner or shit like that”.

That’s not to say (of course) that if you listen to her music you’ll know her soul. All her songs are based around personal experiences or people she has come into contact with, but they also contain sub-plots that may or may not relate to the songs supposed focus. It’s a reflection of emotions and don’t bother trying to figure her out. Ever tried gambling with a round dice? Sure some days she’s beside herself, but some times when you’re on the outside looking in things become clearer. Contradiction is only cold on the outside. Her music will haunt you, it’s been haunting her all her life. But this music is no exorcism, its a celebration.

White Lament is the name of the album and where it came from doesn’t really matter. It simply hade to be made. Thirteen songs in all and it’s a trip through ever changing scenery. From the whispering beauty of Mine to the pseudo confession of A Crying Hole, she will keep you guessing.
The track Mine spent over 4 weeks at number 1 at the Australian based web site www.mp3.com.au, which is similar to the mammoth American www.mp3.com. Many interpret Mine as a song about rape, but Melayne says it’s not. “If my music helps someone because they’ve been through rape and they can relate and heal from it...then that’s cool. In that case it is about rape. It’s not completely autobiographical.” The album was/is mixed in Toronto by legendary knob twiddler Iain McPherson, whose credits include U2, Public Enemy & NIN/Trent Reznor. Speak to Melayne Web for even a short time and one thing becomes clear, she will succeed. From an early age some tones rang true for this twenty five year old who calls Island Bay beach home. Certain sounds in particular places made sense to her.

We the audience are now peeking at one moment in a life time.

For Melayne this is only part of the journey, merely a stitch in an intricately woven tapestry that continues to fold off the loom of life. Melayne’s voice evokes some kind of trance-like comfort in the listener, due surely to the grasp she has on her own vocal ability. The arrangements of Melayne’s songs built using some kind of physiological architecture. Like rhythms of the ocean or a cycle of ones life. Her music is electrons aligning by way of soul energy. Give her the instruments and she will caress the music out of them, after all they are just tools. She is the music. There are those that sit down and wait for the problem. Some stand up and pretend to be the solution. But few ask themselves the answer. Words really do add up to nothing. Listen to the music.

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