MASMA DREAM WORLD Announces New Album & Shares Title Track "PLEASE COME TO ME"

MASMA DREAM WORLD ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM & SHARES TITLE TRACK LISTEN | WATCH PLEASE COME TO ME OUT FEBRUARY 21ST VIA  VALLEY OF SEARCH “A startlingly engaging collection.. informed by place but remains enchantingly placeless.. Mambouka has created something astonishing” - The Wire on debut album Play at Night

Masma Dream World by Cian O’Day

Today, Masma Dream World has announced her new album, PLEASE COME TO ME, due out February 21st via Valley of Search, and shared the record's title track. The experimental project led by Devi Mambouka, Masma Dream World turned heads with her 2020 debut Play at Night, a record that established the multi-instrumentalist as a singular voice, combining field recordings, throttling bass, skittering electronics and traditional Gabonese rhythms for an awe inspiring, transportative sound. “PLEASE COME TO ME” is an invitation to a private ritual of healing, an invocation to the mother of the universe and a communion with the unseen world. To celebrate the release, Masma Dream World will perform at New York’s Public Records on February 20th. She’ll be joined by the Zola Jesus Noise Project NIKA for a night of Para Shakti, celebrating "Ultimate Feminine Power." Tickets HERE. On the single, Devi explains she is “Calling for Mother in the darkness of this existence, desperately yearning for her to come to me.” With roots in Gabon and Singapore, Mambouka is a child of the world. She recalls rainforest rituals and the presence of ghosts and spirits throughout her childhood in Gabon before immigrating to The Bronx. Here, instead of forests, she lost herself in record stores and began a spiritual, educational journey, DJing and immersing herself in NYC’s nightlife. A former Catholic school student, she studied religions of all kinds but found her guides in magic, maternal Hindu ancestors, the Black Madonna and Kali, the Hindu goddess of creation and destruction, and the mother of the forgotten ones. PLEASE COME TO ME was culled from sessions over the course of two weekends with no specific concept in mind, but the result was years in the making, time focused on deepening her spirituality through meditation, Hindu mysticism, and Advaita Vedantic texts. At the same time, she was learning the craft, training in sound therapy, audio engineering, and sound design. The technical developing alongside the spiritual, the electronic with the natural. Her father was from the indigenous Bahoumbou tribe of Gabon, while her mother is Bengali and Cantonese from Singapore. Her influences are global in scope. The mystical experiences of her travels are incorporated into the music; the church bells in Pordenone, Italy, appear on “Pordeno Me.” While in Rocamadour, France, she had a powerful healing experience after seeing La Vierge Noire (the Black Madonna) and had the urge to sing. While walking through a cave, the spirits led her to record her voice, so she pulled out her phone. That recording appears on “The Island Where the Goddess Lives” and the sound is echoey and distant, reversed language going back through time. There are field recordings from her visits with her family in Singapore and the temples and rice paddy fields of Bali.  In the isolation of a bitter Wisconsin winter surrounded by the Northwoods, her connections to the spiritual unseen world deepened. When she returned to her mother’s apartment in New York City, she stumbled upon old, damaged tapes of spiritual lectures from her late aunt’s collection and saw it as a sign to begin work on the album. WATCH “PLEASE COME TO ME” OFFICIAL VISUALIZER This past October, Devi shared her first Masma Dream World single since her 2020 debut, the thunderous and ceremonial “Ancient DNA,” and her first for the venerable Valley of Search, the experimental label run by Nabil Ayers and home to Alan Braufman, Patricia Brennan, and Tomas Nordmark.  Listening to Masma Dream World is bearing witness to a personal journey through hell and back. “In the darkest corners of isolation, pain, and despair, my cries for my mother echoed into the abyss,” she shares, “Instead of succumbing to the void, I was found by the goddess, who saved me from my final attempt to escape this mortal coil.” With her debut album Play at Night she tapped into those experiences, molding her pain and trauma into music. Her past informs and feeds the sound of her present. Inspired by her training in the Japanese spirit-led performance art of butoh, the album is a theta-wave meditation encompassing multiple cultures and languages. Beats and bells, chants and wails, it’s the music of a mystical practice all her own. LISTEN TO PREVIOUS SINGLE “ANCIENT DNA”

The story of Masma Dream World begins with a recurring nightmare that began when she was six. In the dream, she wandered through a hellish landscape engulfed in smoke and darkness. Monstrous figures emerged from the shadows, and she opened her mouth in terror. The demons burst into flames at the sound of her voice, but it was a voice she couldn’t hear, and that’s what frightened her most. Mambouka holds a gothic love affair with the darkness, the mysteries, walking right up to the abyss and peeking inside with awe and curiosity. She doesn’t run from pain, but straight towards it and through, using it as a tool for creation and transcendence. She walks alongside the ghosts and sings to them. Music for the shadow world. Songs you experience, not just listen to. It demands participation. MDW reaches deep-down to the interior of herself at its most vulnerable, proving that sorrow can be transformative, and music can heal. The once silent voice of her childhood nightmares is loud and clear now, a voice that can set fire to monsters.

Tracklist: 01 Only Wish 02 Hells Bells 03 Pordeno Me 04 Seeking Your Protection 05 PLEASE COME TO ME 06 O, Dark Mother 07 Ancient DNA 08 The Island Where The Goddess Lives 09 What If It Was True 10 The Last Poet 11 Without A Body Website | Instagram | Bandcamp