DUMAMA - TOWARDS AN EXPANSE Vinyl LP

Towards an Expanse Follows the acclaimed 2020 collaborative albumBuffering Juju with Kechou, a fellow South African musician and artist,lauded as Global album of the month and a wonderfully inventive debutin The Guardian.Sometimes gospel, sometimes electro-psychedelic space travel, theproject starts with a languid lament that whispers a close-to-the-earinvitation up and between the folds of what unfurls into an ever-expanding sonic universe.Towards an Expanse began in 2019 at Figure 8 Studios (Brooklyn, NYC)under the generous guidance of Shahzad Ismaily. It was written in PortAlfred and Cape Town and matured in Berlin and has evolved into acompanion, a pulsating vessel of grief, vitality, and reclamation. The albummeditates on learning to live with damage while regaining autonomy overhow Black life is archived: a dialogue between the artist, her ancestors,voices like Miriam Makeba, Busi Mhlongo, Princess Magogo, Madosini, andthe psychoacoustics of South Africa's lore as a timeless technology. Itbrings these elders into a conversation with Dumama's global orientationand experimental sensibilities.

Track List:

1.1 Layer After Layer
1.2 Indalo
1.3 No Abiding City
1.4 Rising Falling
1.5 The Bridge
1.6 Mama Carries
1.7 Eating the Other
1.8 What Did the Rain Say?
1.9 Tulip

Label: Soundway Records