Out next week the latest from Nala Sinephro is a 10-track suite like meditation that takes its time and makes its presence felt charting electronica guidelines that deftly develop into a sensory rush.
The first of these 'Continuum' tracks is streaming.
A follow-up to Sinephro's debut Space 1.8 released to a lot of acclaim in 2021 championed by such fine writers as Kitty Empire in The Observer, it delves into themes of life cycles and rebirth. The London-based composer and musician who plays the pedal harp, modular synths, keyboards, and piano blends jazz, folk, field recordings and more in her approach using the vast scope of electronics, looper & pedals and prepared harp. Sheila Maurice-Grey, Morgan Simpson, James Mollison, Lyle Barton, Nubya Garcia whose own brand new album Odyssey we reviewed recently, Natcyet Wakili and Dwayne Kilvington are among the album personnel plus a 21-piece string orchestra blended in.
Some 2023 live footage of Sinephro in action - from an appearance at a festival in the Netherlands - on YouTube.
Ambient and meditative
Sinephro easily owns the mood and how it is to be shaped. A feeling of a complete communion of time and silence in the unquantifiable vastness of the universe is pieced together.
Like its predecessor Endlessness is very much an ambient listen, characterised by long, expansive musical statements. It sits well with the approach taken by Floating Points and Pharaoh Sanders on 2021's Promises, in a blend of jazz and electronic elements formed by subtle, spacious production and delivered with great touch and sensitivity.
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