Shiloh Eyes emerges out of a "Mad River"

Christine Schatz, the woman we best know as Shiloh Eyes takes a retrospective look at her time in Delaware. Where the River runs Mad. A stillness upon its surface, deceitful. A lure to its tumultuous depths. This is Shiloh Eye's message in “Mad River”, the second Single out of her upcoming debut EP.

Emerging from a dark place following divorce, Shiloh Eyes used her trauma as a catalyst for songwriting. Her music blends tragic romance, melancholy, and a sense of healing and release.

Schatz has become one of 'Southern California’s go-to DJs.' and it's easy to see why, the Los Angeles-raised artist, songwriter, engineer, and producer seems to embody that intangible SoCal quality of romantic, surfside Americana. Her deeply trance-like sound borrows a lot of the salty pacific night breeze and the echo of the downtown L.A heartbeat. A healthy mix of preppy glam and alternative/outsider charm.

“I don’t wanna wait

But I keep waiting

I don’t know what I need

Now that it’s no longer you”

She once lived by the Delaware river with her then-husband. It came to pass that she saw a reflection of her relationship on that waterway's surface. “A lot of people drowned in it, actually. It had a really strong undercurrent but looked deceptively still." She says. And though she didn't actually drown in her relationship, one imagines the chilling confessional track to be an admittance of how close a call that was for her.

"Mad River is about the space between yearning for what once was, and breaking free."

the song trickles down upon damp earth, but a very distant rumbling tells of a powerful course coming our way. Little by little the trickling flow becomes much ampler. A trickle is then a stream, then a brook, then a grand river of emotions in turmoil that suddenly gives way to a wide reach, a cathartic climax symbolizing a real, tangible peace even within the flow of things. All the while this is happening, the desire to dance like it means something grows deep within you.

MEET THE AUTHOR

Samuel Aponte is Venezuelan-born raised and based. 

I joined Rival Magazine after a few years of doing PR work for independent musicians of all stripes; understanding their struggles to be heard in a sea of constant  ADHD noise and paywalled access to platforms, I now bring a willingness to always appreciate and encourage the effort and creativity that artists put into their work . Can also find some of my writings on LADYGUNN and We Found New Music