After inheriting the family home built by her estranged grandfather, a gifted but guarded musician is summoned into a surreal musical realm where her late grandmother’s spirit compels her to confront the grief woven through her family lineage and mend a decades-old rift.
“Music feels like the connective tissue I share with my grandmother”
Numina opens with the arpeggios of a song.
“There’s a stowaway in my spirit and I don’t wanna hear it…”
Once alone in the house, Josephine sits down to sing that same song. It’s been calling to her…plaguing her for months.
INSPIRATION for the numinascape
“Barbra Streissand and Judy Garland’s performance of Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again has lingered with me since I was a teenager. The way both songs and singers maintain their autonomy. Yet, together create something wholly new.”
“I am a Black woman. The music of my song, some sweet arpeggio of tears, is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night...can be heard humming in the night...”
- Mari Evans
In Numina, we’ve created our own arrangements of It Had to Be You and Roses of Yesterday (Both of which recently entered the public domain.) Unlike the Barbra and Judy arrangement, ours is more melancholy, more wistful, more dissonant, more hungry and haunting.
For the feature movie musical we’re looking to have a blend of classic music, soul, and new songs reflecting the blend of the past, present, and future in the house.
