I simply stumbled upon Calida Ray’s model new launch Respiration Underwater, and I completely cherished the best way our mates at Kommerz Data pitched it, “ambient jazz for the open-minded“.
On this mini-album Respiration Underwater, the Berlin-based singer, producer, and pianist, who we have featured earlier than, invitations us deeper into his genre-fluid world. It appears like a sonic universe the place r&b, ambient soundscapes, electronica, and experimental jazz drift and collide in essentially the most easy concord. I used to be immediately drawn to a collaboration with Nigerian-American singer osaremen referred to as “previous stars/into blue”. It appears Sade had been to make music with Shigeto and Frank Ocean.
“Respiration Underwater is a mirrored image of reverence for the vastness of nature, an awesome power of which I’m solely a tiny fragment. On the centre is the ingredient of water, which for me is a logo of calm and security, but additionally of isolation and numbness. This ambivalence mirrors the timeless internal journey towards self-reconciliation and wholeness. Underwater, the whole lot feels totally different – like being suspended in a surreal state. To flee it, I have to rise to the floor. Till then, I breathe underwater.”, Calida Ray shares.
This track makes me really feel gentle as a feather.
