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- Summary: The debut full-length release for London-based jazz/ambient artist features guest appearances from Nubya Garcia, Ahnansé and James Mollison.
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- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Jazz, Ambient, Contemporary Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Spiritual Jazz
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Nov 12, 2021It’s this blurring of electro and acoustic that makes Space 1.8 such a special debut. Nala Sinephro certainly pays homage to the golden age of spiritual jazz, but her sonic range is unparalleled, and her vision is startlingly unique. Her first full-length album is one for the pantheon of cosmic jazz classics.
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Nov 12, 2021That deliberate smallness, that inner focus, is the source of much of this understated record’s outsized power. For all its overdubbed layers, “Space 8,” like the album itself, feels as simple and as steadying as breathing.
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Nov 12, 2021Both a reflective sound bath and an ecstatic celebration of creative freedom, Space 1.8 is a singular, eye-opening debut.
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Nov 12, 2021Sinephro'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.
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MojoNov 12, 2021It's the way these sessions are gracefully processed into digitalia that makes the whole thing so cohesive. [Dec 2021 p.87]
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The WireDec 22, 2021She’s doing something unique and off-kilter on her debut album. She plays analogue synth and pedal harp, both essentially dreamy instruments, and her compositions are like gentle blends of spiritual jazz and ambient music, not that far from Alice Coltrane’s devotionals, if remixed by The Orb and minus the chanting. [Jan 2022, p.71]
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UncutNov 12, 2021What sticks with Space 1.8 is the focus of its vision: precise like mathematics but imbued with a rich, cosmic breadth. [Nov 2021, p.32]
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Feb 11, 2022Captivating chill cosmic jazz that dabbles in ambience. Focused and sweet. A quite debut released to obscurity not because of quality.
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