MASMA DREAM WORLD (Wire Magazine Cover Star) Releases New Album 'PLEASE COME TO ME'

MASMA DREAM WORLD WIRE MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2025 COVER STAR RELEASES NEW ALBUM PLEASE COME TO ME  OUT NOW VIA VALLEY OF SEARCH BANDCAMP LISTENING PARTY AT 2PM ET PERFORMING IN LOS ANGELES NEXT WEEK “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 “by turns meditative, tortured, and exultant, it transmutes the abyssal language of devotion and the divine feminine through cavernous electronics, spine-chilling noise, and a powerful voice” - Our Culture “a striking and viscerally powerful experience” - Outside Left

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 releases her sophomore album, PLEASE COME TO ME, out via the venerable avant garde label Valley of Search, run by Nabil Ayers. The album 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.  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. PLEASE COME TO ME was preceded by singles “O, Dark Mother,” “Pordeno Me,” “PLEASE COME TO ME,” & “Ancient DNA.” Devi graced the cover of Wire Magazine this month, and the singles have been praised by The FADER, Paste Magazine, Bandcamp Daily, and The New York Times, among others. LISTEN/PURCHASE PLEASE COME TO ME 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.  To celebrate the release of PLEASE COME TO ME, Masma Dream World performed at New York’s Public Records last night alongside Zola Jesus, who performed under her Noise Project NIKA for a night celebrating Parashakti, an invocation of the "Ultimate Divine Feminine Power." At 2pm ET this afternoon, she’ll host a Bandcamp Listening Party and answer questions about the record. Tomorrow at 2pm ET she’ll DJ the Lot Radio, and on Monday at 8pm ET she’ll guest on NTS Radio. Next week she’ll head to Los Angeles to perform at Gold Diggers on February 28th presented by Desert Daze.  TOUR DATES Feb 28th - Los Angeles, CA @ Gold Diggers TICKETS

Masma Dream World by Courtney Sofiah Yates for The Wire Magazine  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