BRUHA BEE – SWEET WORDS
A glance across the room. A face that gives nothing away. In her imagination, things have already gone much further.
Slow, intimate and quietly provocative, Sweet Words is the sound of wanting someone before they know it.
THE SOUND CHANGES. THE INSTINCT STAYS.
Bruha Bee is Filipino-born, Melbourne-based artist and producer Marlene Samson. Bruha means witch in Tagalog, and she wears the name well: part sorceress, part storyteller, forever dancing on the line between chaos and order.
She trained in opera in Paris, swung from a trapeze with circus folk in London, and has played in bands in London and Melbourne, rarely taking the obvious route.
Her music has roamed through polyrhythms and playful wordplay, through migration, homesickness and transformation, always chasing the same thing: a line to something bigger.
Now comes Sweet Words: slow, sensual, dancehall-inspired rhythm, deep bass and a voice that knows exactly what it wants. Hybrid ritual pop. Spiritual club music. Songs to help you remember what it is to be human, preferably with the lights down low.
ENVELOPE
Envelope is a stripped-back reimagining of a song first written for Priestessa, now reborn with just ukulele, lute, tom drum and soft synths. It’s a song about turning inward: listening to our emotions, and to the quiet guidance of those who guide us. Bruha Bee released it in November 2025, while the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was passing through our solar system.
SAGING PUSO (BANANA HEART)
Bruha Bee left the Philippines at a young age and since then, she had lost her fluency in speaking Tagalog. Saging Puso is a mixture of different phrases from old Filipino movies from which Bruha Bee has chosen to try and reconnect to her culture and express her own narrative.
NUE (NAKED)
Nue was born from Melbourne’s lockdowns and the need to fly far away to make something beautiful and creative with friends. Bruha Bee recorded Nue in Melbourne, before flying to collaborate with film maker, Liza Porte in Paris.
GIVE YOU THE STARS
Harmonious vocals ride arpeggiated synth waves delving into the depths of love and life lost.
“Give You The Stars is the kind of tune you can’t rip your attention away from” – Happy Mag
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