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Wume, the Baltimore (USA) based duo will release the third album entitled Towards The Shadow on 9th November via Northern Spy Records. The duo is comprised of April Camlin (drums, vocals) and Albert Schatz (keyboards, electronics). On the upcoming album Towards The Shadow the two offer eight exploratory, polyrhythmic jams taking the listener on an excursion deep into inner space-not as a form of escape, but rather in search of purpose and personal liberation in a time of chaos.
While Wume draws much inspiration from past masters, with a particular rooting in German cosmic sounds of the 1970s, their music has always celebrated forward-motion and growth-the name “Wume” both nodding to the hometown of the legendary band Faust and homonymously suggesting gestation. Towards The Shadow announces a new phase for the band featuring a bold expansion of their palette, distilling influences as different as Francis Bebey, Midori Takada, Erkin Koray, and Alice Coltrane into interdimensional songs born of profound personal change. While Wume’s sound remains rooted in crisp, precise, and dizzyingly intricate percussion worthy of comparison to Can wedded to harmonic synth patterns and kaleidoscopic electronic textures, Towards The Shadow also features guitar, treated violin, hand percussion, field recordings, and, on “Pool Of Light,” a player-piano improvisation (an instrument borrowed from Dan Deacon, with whom both Camlin and Schatz frequently collaborate).
Significantly, Towards The Shadow centralizes vocals and lyrics more than any prior Wume outing. It’s not simply that Camlin’s voice is more dominant in the mix. Once employed to ride waves of sound or convey abstract feeling, Camlin’s lyrics here grapple head-on with deep philosophical issues probed during an intense period of reading, self-teaching, and focus on her artistic practice in weaving, resulting in real breakthroughs and dramatic shifts in perspective.
Wume just released a new video for the song "Shadow". The video was created by Kevin Blackistone and you can watch it in the player below. This October Wume will be supporting Beach House on their European Tour (tour dates are below). Link
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