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“Untimely Flowering Season” unfolds in an elegiac soundworld, where drifting synth drones carry a weightless kind of melancholy. Kuma shapes each phrase with subtle tonal shifts, like light filtering through layers of sheer fabric, always changing, never quite landing. The found footage in the video casts everything in a suspended glow, giving the sense of […]
Sunlight is refracted through a scratched prism in the effervescing stretches of Kuma’s “Her Own Private Constellation.” Crystalline timbres spread across the horizon line, blurring future visions with grayscale hallucinations. Each passage adds to the sonic expansiveness, but with our focus anchored in front, the grandeur faces backward like we’re leaving an eternal shadow in […]
In the moments we least expect it, but often at the times we need it most, the ether speaks back. Kuma’s latest for Frosti, We Have Dark Friends, was written and recorded in Spring 2022 when he was dealing with COVID-19. Thick sonic haze is sliced to shreds with searing guitar drones and lithe, atmospheric […]
I love this description of Vancouver’s Kuma from his last record, You Cannot Cheat the Muse: “Bristol-born and Vancouver-based, Kuma has been destroying old worlds and building new ones for over two decades.” It feels like an old world at a new dawn on that album, communicated via tactile synthscapes and stretched wistful melodies. Kuma has a […]
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