Kuma is a Bristol-born, Vancouver-based composer and musician. According to his bio, Kuma has brought sounds across the dub-based spectrum to ear and asses from Sapporo to San Francisco. He has announced the release of a new album called You Cannot Cheat The Muse which will be out on Friday via See Blue Audio.
According to the press release, Recorded at the Little Black Rain Cloud studio in Vancouver, the sound palette on ‘You Cannot Cheat the Muse’ is forever shifting. A series of improvised recordings based around his own vocal looping system were then chopped up and turned inside out. Tapes, synths, field recordings and the human voice are all intertwined into a series of rolling waves buffeted by orchestral overtones. Beatless soundscapes are underpinned by dub-infused pulses, and the influences of early alternative electronica can be heard trickling through. The curious and the eerie merge with the physical, the spiritual and the sometimes supernatural with the end result an ever-morphing array of musical structures designed for all things and all times.
Check the new video for the track “Scribes of the Rabbit God“.