Maja Rivić, vocals, compositions, arrangements, lyrics
Mak Murtić, tenor saxophone
Hrvoje Galler, piano
Hrvoje Kralj, double bass
Borko Rupena, drums and percussion

Debut album The Second Sun Maja Rivić was recorded in early 2025 at the renowned Italian studio Artesuono, and released in May of the same year in digital edition and on a double vinyl record by the Menart label. The program brings a cycle of chronologically connected compositions in English and Croatian in which natural science and philosophical reflections poetically merge with abstracted love-sensual and meta-vocal emotions. The music and lyrics are shaped through layered images, textures and colors, immersed in an ambivalent harmonic space that opens up the field of imagination and contemplation, with a strong fascination with cosmic phenomena.

Maja Rivić (Zagreb, 1982) is a vocalist, composer and multimedia artist. She graduated in jazz singing and arranging at Middlesex University in London, new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and graphic technology at the Faculty of Graphics. She is a co-founder of the jazz/world orchestra Mimika, a member of the CRI Orchestra and a collaborator of the HRT Jazz Orchestra, Darko Rundek and the Zagreb Music Biennale. She is active in the field of jazz, improvised, experimental and world music, composes and teaches, and leads singing and vocal improvisation workshops.

Dream Time
Observer
Sagittarius A *
OK
Inflaton
Body language
Month
The Second Sun