Nala Sinephro’s Endlessness Out Today On Warp Records
Features on the album include Sheila Maurice-Grey, Morgan Simpson, James Mollison, Lyle Barton, Nubya Garcia, Natcyet Wakili, and Dwayne Kilvington, joined by Orchestrate’s 21 string players
Listen to Endlessness here: https://nalasinephro.ffm.to/endlessness
['Endlessness' cover art. Painting by Daniela Yohannes and design by Maziyar Pahlevan]
“‘Endlessness’ pulses with meditative, spiritual-jazz elements, but amid soothing orchestrations, tension and surprise upend easy listening.” - Guardian, 4 out of 5 stars, Album of the Week
"Welcomes hybrid forms [of jazz] in a really beautiful way." — NPR, Ann Powers
“Carve out some time today to get lost in Nala Sinephro’s expansive, experimental, orchestral new album.” — Consequence of Sound
“Raw and emotional, the work ripples with atmosphere and melody, each movement brimming with youthful optimism.” — The Wire
"She expertly arranges a diverse assortment of tools and tactics that nevertheless feel sui generis." — Bandcamp Daily, Album of the Day
“Endlessness is a wonderful addition to the current ambient jazz pantheon that also includes recent albums by Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders, Shabaka Hutchings, and André 3000, and for something so meditative, it might surprise you how consistently attention-grabbing it is.” — Brooklyn Vegan
“Refreshing, enlightening, and awe-inspiring all at once.” - Allmusic, 4 out of 5 stars
"It’s a soundtrack ahead of its film." — 4 Columns
“It’s both ethereal and soulful, and consistently gorgeous." — Trebelzine
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September 6, 2024 — Today, Caribbean-Belgian producer and composer Nala Sinephro has released her much anticipated second album, Endlessness, on Warp Records.
Endlessness is a deep dive into the cycle of existence. The 45-minute album delicately spans 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout, creating an expansive, mesmerizing celebration of life cycles and rebirth. Following Sinephro’s critically acclaimed 2021 debut album Space 1.8, Endlessness further elevates her as a transcendent and multi-dimensional composer, beautifully morphing jazz, orchestral, and electronic music.
Endlessness was composed, produced, arranged, and engineered by Sinephro. Performing on the album are Sheila Maurice-Grey, Morgan Simpson, James Mollison, Lyle Barton, Nubya Garcia, Natcyet Wakili, and Dwayne Kilvington, joined by Orchestrate’s 21 string players. Sinephro’s deftly balanced production, arrangement, and engineering let the musicians shine with only light-touch effects, bridging the immediate and identifiable with the beyond.
Sinephro also recently announced that she will perform a sold out at London's Barbican Hall on October 18. This follows Sinephro’s highly anticipated, first-ever performances in the U.S. In late July Sinephro and her band played a series of triumphant sold out shows including at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago (“an intense, thought-provoking performance” said the Chicago Sun-Times), an official Festival after hours show at Constellation, as well as Los Angeles at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and New York at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church. Sinephro and Warp also hosted a select series of events last night around the world, in which the album was played in full for fans in quiet listening spaces.
The album is now available on black 2LP vinyl with d-side etching as well as CD.
Listen to Endlessess here:
https://nalasinephro.ffm.to/endlessness
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Endlessness tracklist:
1. Continuum 1
2. Continuum 2
3. Continuum 3
4. Continuum 4
5. Continuum 5
6. Continuum 6
7. Continuum 7
8. Continuum 8
9. Continuum 9
10. Continuum 10
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Tour dates:
18 Oct - London @ The Barbican - SOLD OUT
1 Nov - Turin, IT @ C2C Festival
25 Nov - Tokyo, Japan @ Meguro Persimmon Hall Large Hall
14 Mar 2025 - Brussels, BE @ Flagey
Tickets are available here:
https://www.nalasinephro.com
Praise for Space 1.8:
"An ambient jazz classic"
The Guardian
"A benchmark in ambient jazz featuring outstanding players and delicately woven arrangements"
8.3 ‘Best New Music’ Pitchfork
"Sinephro's spaces not only feel full of life, they're built with the very sounds of it, too, reminding us not to take it for granted"
Resident Advisor ‘RA Recommends’
"Music so vast could feel lonely, but the sense of smallness one feels listening to Nala’s music is humbling and reassuring; the magnitudes of beauty we can create are unbound"
Jazzwise
"What sticks with Space 1.8 is the focus of its vision: precise like mathematics but imbued with a rich cosmic breadth"
9/10 Uncut
"Very few records have this capacity to make you temporarily fearless, but on Space 1.8, Sinephro harnesses the power of sound to move and heal the listener in ways that are real, and expansive"
9/10 Loud and Quiet
"A joyous and deeply restorative debut album"
The Observer ‘One To Watch’
"Nala Sinephro's debut album exists inn the wider universe, a milky way of keys, harp strings, saxophone and modular synth"
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