Dumama: Towards An Expanse – VINYL LP

Title: Towards An Expanse
Artist: Dumama
Label: Soundway Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5060571364128
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2026-06-05
Number of Discs: 1

Towards an Expanse Follows the acclaimed 2020 collaborative albumBuffering Juju with Kechou, a fellow South African musician and artist,lauded as Global album of the month and a wonderfully inventive debutin The Guardian.Sometimes gospel, sometimes electro-psychedelic space travel, theproject starts with a languid lament that whispers a close-to-the-earinvitation up and between the folds of what unfurls into an ever-expanding sonic universe.Towards an Expanse began in 2019 at Figure 8 Studios (Brooklyn, NYC)under the generous guidance of Shahzad Ismaily. It was written in PortAlfred and Cape Town and matured in Berlin and has evolved into acompanion, a pulsating vessel of grief, vitality, and reclamation. The albummeditates on learning to live with damage while regaining autonomy overhow Black life is archived: a dialogue between the artist, her ancestors,voices like Miriam Makeba, Busi Mhlongo, Princess Magogo, Madosini, andthe psychoacoustics of South Africa’s lore as a timeless technology. Itbrings these elders into a conversation with Dumama’s global orientationand experimental sensibilities.

Tracks:
1.1 Layer After Layer
1.2 Indalo
1.3 No Abiding City
1.4 Rising Falling
1.5 The Bridge
1.6 Mama Carries
1.7 Eating the Other
1.8 What Did the Rain Say?
1.9 Tulip