About

- A TAV Essential Listening Album -

This debut album by London-based Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer, and musician Nala Sinephro is an elegiac, cosmic jazz wonder. Throughout the album’s transfixing 45 minutes, Space 1.8 feels akin to taking a warm, reflective, slow-motion sound bath - one that cleanses, nurtures and gently heals.

This minimalist and understated electroacoustic alliance of ambient and spiritual jazz envelopes you in its unhurried, free-floating thrum. Sinephro on the pedal harp and modular synthesisers - alongside a host of collaborators including Lyle Barton, James Mollison, Nubya Garcia, Shirley Tetteh, and Jake Long - have managed to process the infinity of the interior through spacious and celestial dimensions of harp, horns and layered electronics.

A meditative masterwork that will restore the body and rejuvenate the soul. — The Analog Vault

The debut album by London-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and NTS Radio host Nala Sinephro intertwines spiritual jazz and ambient music, melding acoustic and electronic instruments to create meditative pieces that explore inner space while pondering the possibilities of the future.

Sinephro performs pedal harp and modular synthesizers, and she's joined by several notable musicians, including saxophonists Nubya Garcia, Ahnansé, and James Mollison, drummers Jake Long, and Eddie Hick, bassists Rudi Creswick and Twm Dylan, and others.

The gentle, collage-like opener blooms with the sounds of chirping birds serving as a backdrop for Sinephro's graceful harp and illuminating synths. Following the dusky, comforting "Space 2," the musicians briefly kick into overdrive with the momentary rocket burst "Space 3," which feels like the beginning of a jazzy drum'n'bass crossover but caps that bit of excitement before developing further. "Space 6" is more intense, with an unsteady, angular rhythm and buzzing, bassy synths that erupt into mesmerizing waves. Concluding the album is "Space 8," a 17-minute celestial jazz epic that suspends Ahnansé's warm, wistful saxophone playing inside an ethereal glow, gradually encircled by spiralling echoes. Both a reflective sound bath and an ecstatic celebration of creative freedom, Space 1.8 is a singular, eye-opening debut. — (via AllMusic)



↓
Label: Warp Records
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Reissued:2022 / Original: 2021
Genre: Jazz, Electronic
Style: Contemporary Jazz, Ambient, Experimental

File under: Modern / Future Jazz
⦿