MASMA DREAM WORLD Shares New Single "O, Dark Mother" (Wire Magazine Cover Star)

MASMA DREAM WORLD WIRE MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2025 COVER STAR SHARES NEW SINGLE “O, DARK MOTHER” LISTEN | WATCH PLEASE COME TO ME OUT FEBRUARY 21ST VIA  VALLEY OF SEARCH NEW YORK & LA SHOWS THIS MONTH

Masma Dream World by Courtney Sofiah Yates for The Wire Magazine

PRAISE FOR MASMA DREAM WORLD: “A matrix of lucid electronics.. On PLEASE COME TO ME, Masma Dream World plumbs the abyssal depths of the divine feminine, charting a path of devotion to the Mother Kali” - The Wire ‘Cover Story’ "music rooted in drones and ritual rhythms..like a visitor probing a dark cavern, occasionally knocking something loose that clatters noisily into the void" - New York Times "a strange, discomfiting document of the singer-composer’s energy..tangles together traditional African sounds and rhythms with Western electronic styles ranging from ambient to harsh noise" - The FADER "a divine, spectral source of unease..“mother” is the only lyric in the song, but it hits you like a paragraph, rummaging through your skin until it crawls" - Paste Magazine "The astonishing new record from Masma Dream World obliterates all genres to arrive at something haunting, potent, and powerful." - Bandcamp Daily Masma Dream World is the experimental project led by artist and healer Devi Mambouka. 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. Today, she has shared the third preview of her new album, PLEASE COME TO ME, due out February 21st via Valley of Search. “O, Dark Mother” is a transmission from a liminal space; distended strings swell over radiator-like hums as Mambouka’s layered vocals arrive like choral smoke rings, dissipating across the open space. The new single arrives as MDW graces the cover of Wire Magazine, who wrote the song “bends through time like an inverted rainbow.”   “Nothing lasts forever in the shadow world,” shares Mambouka on the new single. WATCH “O, DARK MOTHER” OFFICIAL VISUALIZER 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. Recent single “PLEASE COME TO ME” is an aural ritual, an invocation to the mother of the universe and a communion with the unseen world. The track was highlighted at The FADER, Paste Magazine, Bandcamp Daily, and The New York Times.  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, like the church bells on today’s single, or spontaneous singing inspired by a visit to La Vierge Noire (the Black Madonna) in Rocamadour, France. 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. Last 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.  LISTEN TO PREVIOUS SINGLES  “PORDENO ME,” “PLEASE COME TO ME” &  “ANCIENT DNA”  To celebrate the release of PLEASE COME TO ME, 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 celebrating Parashakti, an invocation of the "Ultimate Divine Feminine Power." The following week she’ll head to Los Angeles to perform at Gold Diggers on February 28th presented by Desert Daze.  TOUR DATES Feb 20th - Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records TICKETS Feb 28th - Los Angeles, CA @ Gold Diggers TICKETS

PLEASE COME TO ME Album Art  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