‘Light Shadow/ Boom Boom;’ is a collection of songs written during her travels, which included hitchhiking in Mexico with no Spanish on one occasion, befriending a band and staying for four days on another. Yet it was during her time in Northern Ireland that the arrangements that comprise her debut album came together. Channelling her restless, spontaneous spirit, she worked with an eclectic mix of some of the North's most promising emerging talent from different musical backgrounds, such as jazz guitarist Joseph Leighton (Moving on Music Emerging Artist 2017), pianist/composer Neil Burns (Comrade Hat), double bassist Jack Kelly (Moving on Music Emerging Artist 2018) and producer/percussionist/composer Daryl Martin (aka Porphyry, Moving on Music Emerging Artist 2019). The result is a blend of folk, neo soul, playful yet refined jazz and experimental electronica, all merging seamlessly, Maya’s passionate voice and introspective lyrics working as the thread that ties it all together.

‘Light Shadow Boom Boom;’ features ten intensely personal songs that explore different angles of depression and intertwine perspectives of accepting all sides of oneself. The title stands for the heavens above (light), the earth below (dark), and the pulse of life throughout it all. This phrase surfaced in Maya’s life the summer of 2016, right before she moved to Northern Ireland, when her dad was suffering from serious depression.

“There was a moment when I was riding in the car with him and got so fed up and exasperated by his nonstop despondency and dejection that I spontaneously said, “How about we get tattoos?! If you were to remind yourself of something positive every day, what would it be?” It took about a week of mulling through many words until we came to the phrase, ‘light shadow boom boom;’

- light and shadow to remind them to love and accept their dualities, and boom boom because it stands for connection, music, love, and presence.

She says, “when I was thinking of names for the album this phrase immediately came to
mind since my surge into music started at the tail end of my first depression and has
turned into a life altering therapeutic practice that soothes all states of life.”

2019 is shaping up to be an exciting year for Goldblum. With 'Light Shadow Boom Boom;' soon to be released, Goldblum is ready to roam some more, preparing a UK/Ireland tour with her quintet of jazz and electronic musicians. And that’s not all: she is already crafting songs for her sophomore album.

“Maya’s dynamic vocal manages to function as a container for complex human emotion
while retaining the purity the purity of a sine wave.” - The Thin Air

“...her malleable approach to performance and composition allows the musicians that comprise Queen Bonobo to experiment with genre lines, occasionally drawing in electronics, and ultimately demarcating Goldblum from anything else happening in the North right now” - The Thin Air

“The sense of space betrays the complexity of voices and rhythms within. ‘Boom Boom’ is very much of its origin, transportive and bewitching.” - Chordblossom