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