Halloween 2026:

Fall is falling here in Chicago and the crisp nights are a reminder that ghostly holiday times are fast approaching. We agreed that it was a fitting time to release one more of the completed tracks from Ethereal Voices… This Is How I Live With My Ghost.  We carry our past around with us and it often colors our view of later seasons of our lives - even when we think it doesn't.  Our reaction to realizing this can be attempts at psychological exorcism or even an attempt to make peace with whatever even the worst hauntings have taught us. This song is about that space. Due to be released on all your favorite streaming services on Halloween, you can listen to it right here, right now. Just scroll down to the track list below. Like it? Don't like it/ Send us an email and let us know.

Summer 2026:

We have just released a “Summer Single” from our upcoming full length album Ethereal Voices. We hope you will enjoy: Rescued By Fireflies

*** Listen here or on your favorite music streaming service. ***

We all have times and places where we feel adrift in the darkness and the cold water. In our hearts and minds we hope we will see light in the form of a great powerful lighthouse whose light slashes through the darkness to show us the way to shore... except sometimes life doesn't give us that... instead it gives us something just as life-giving .... a million tiny lights beconing us home. Those might be stars in the sky... or they might be fireflies darting above the fields... or they might be small moments in your life. This song is about how even small lights can lead us to a better place.

Minor Musings from March 2026 

Signs of Spring are starting to pull us out of the long dark winter and it is easier to look forward to what this new year may bring for Mary and Me creatively. Being an indie artist means that you can end up doing everything yourself - at least in our case, this is true. Most of it is not glamorous, sometimes leaves us scratching our collective heads, and can even make us rather morose. 

The Winter has been productive; albeit mostly behind the scenes. We have done work on our modest recording studio environment, finished phase one of our website, pressed our first album to CD (available now), and have written new material for our second album "Ethereal Voices."  The deceptively simple idea of selling things on our website has been much more complex that we imagined, but now that it is done, it is done. 

We released a celebration single  on the Spotify streaming platform titled “Lost You in the Forest” to mark 200,000 streams of our music being played on that service. If you give it a listen, it gives you a bit of the flavor of the direction the music is taking for our second album. We are now releasing this on other music listening platforms. 

What we really want these days is to hear from listeners of our music… what you like, what you don't, and any thoughts or other comments you would like to share with us. That's the next project for both this website and our Facebook page. We hope that Ethereal Voices will be ready for release this June. Thank you for supporting us.

-Dave & Mary

This Is How I Live With My Ghost

Mary and Me

The very first song that we started working on for Ethereal Voices... it turned out to be one of the last to be finished. Just in time for the spooky time of year. We hope you enjoy.

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Lost You in the Forest

Mary and Me

As promised, this is our new song released to celebrate crossing the 200,000 online streams threshold on Spotify. You can listen here right now and on the Spotify online streaming service starting December 1st. It will be available for purchase as well as your listening pleasure on January 1, 2025 on other platforms.

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Tracks from Awaken (2024)

Enjoy our first single “ The In-Between” and two more songs  from  our AWAKEN EPs. 

About Us

The Mary and Me Project

The roots of this music come from a combination of time in Dave's childhood messing around with his grandmother's tube organ and our time playing in alternative bands starting in the 1980s. Mary and Me is a new project that explores human emotion and our experience of time - how our past, the present, and glimpses of the future combine and collide in our hearts and minds. The first installment is entitled "Awaken" - which was released in three parts in June of 2024 on music streaming services. Awash in imagery of waves, forests, caves, shadows and the sea - each song is a kind of journey and each journey is different. Some are melancholy and others upbeat and hopeful. Mary''s voice and lyrics lead you on and are accompanied by rich textures of shoe gaze guitar and ambient keyboards. All this means that the tracks are a little longer than the standard three minute pop song and are purposefully not repetitive. "Awaken" has been followed in July 2024 by a four track EP called "Minor Musings" - which is musically more minimalist than "Awaken" but still has some similar recognizable themes. 

Our Current Work

2025 has seen us retool the studio. This has allowed us to experiment more with our sound.  We have been hard at work on our second full-length album which we decided to title "Ethereal Voices." Currently in the mixing and mastering stage, you will be able to hear a sneak-peek right here on our website before it hits the streaming services. Filled with haunting vocal harmonies, elegant guitar work, and vintage keyboards, we hope you will enjoy our latest efforts.

If you enjoy Mary and Me, share it with your friends, add it to your playlists, and send us a note! If you are an artist interested in collaboration, you can also contact us at: dave@maryandme.net

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