{"product_id":"dumama-towards-an-expanse-vinyl-lp","title":"Dumama - Towards An Expanse (VINYL LP)","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3960925262\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dumama.bandcamp.com\/album\/towards-an-expanse\"\u003eTowards An Expanse by Dumama\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"col-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGugulethu Duma (aka Dumama) is a musician \/ composer \/ sonic poet \/ creative producer from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTowards an Expanse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFollows the acclaimed 2020 collaborative album “Buffering Juju” with Kechou, a fellow South African musician and artist, lauded as Global album of the month and “\u003cem\u003ea wonderfully inventive debut\u003c\/em\u003e” in The Guardian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes gospel, sometimes electro-psychedelic space travel, the project starts with a languid lament that whispers a close-to-the ear invitation up and between the folds of what unfurls into an ever-expanding sonic universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTowards an Expanse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebegan in 2019 at Figure 8 Studios (Brooklyn, NYC) under the generous guidance of Shahzad Ismaily, and has since evolved into a companion, a pulsating vessel of grief, vitality, and reclamation. The album meditates on learning to live with damage while regaining autonomy over how Black life is archived: a dialogue between the artist, her ancestors, voices like Miriam Makeba, Busi Mhlongo, Princess Magogo, Madosini, and the psychoacoustics of South Africa’s lore as a timeless technology. It brings these elders into a conversation with Dumama’s global orientation and experimental sensibilities  – merging her formative influence with contemporary artists, Sudan Archives, Bjork, FKA Twigs and Pamela Z.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work has been evolving over a 6 year period and was incubated and held throughout by South African imprint, Mushroom Hour Half Hour. It was written in Port Alfred and Cape Town, South Africa, initially recorded in NYC USA, crystalized and matured in Berlin, Germany and completed in Johannesburg, South Africa, where musician and producer Nandi Ndlovu reimagined the 2019 NYC recordings with Dumama during a 3 week production workshop that involved Ndlovu sampling and re-arranging the NYC recordings, adding various electronic elements (drums, percussion and basslines), recording additional live musicians and extensive vocal production by Mushroom Hour’s Dion Monti.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in Black ontological understandings of circular time — where we are here, there, nowhere, everywhere —\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTowards an Expanse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emediates realities and excavates the spiritual impulse within, bringing it into the discourse of the now. Produced and arranged with the hands of a feminine force (Nandi Ndlovu), this electro-acoustic body of work travels through radical sonic lineages defying one singular genre: future folk, gospel, left-field electronics, ambient, post-punk, and prog-rock, reminding us that we have much capacity to tap into the infinite. The songs are songs, but also long meditations on more-than-human listening and the sonic lexicons of anti-imperialist logic around grief, love, belonging and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt asks us - how do we compose ourselves?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Roastin’ Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180020678827,"sku":null,"price":569.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0505\/2465\/1691\/files\/a1329892337_10.jpg?v=1780661311","url":"https:\/\/roastinrecords.com\/products\/dumama-towards-an-expanse-vinyl-lp","provider":"ROASTIN' RECORDS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}