Valley of Search / USA / 2025
Five years after her cult debut, Devi Mambouka returns with a haunting, pan-ethnic masterclass in ritualistic electronics. Moving far beyond "healing music" tropes, Please Come To Me is a dark, transformative journey where sacred R&B, Butoh, and industrial pressure collide.
Recorded across Gabon, Bali, and Europe, the album layers sacred field recordings with black-metal rasps, theta-frequency drones, and Indonesian trance percussion. It is a vulnerable, three-dimensional architecture of sound that bridges the gap between the divine and the subterranean.
FFO: The otherworldly vocals of Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins), the ritualistic intensity of Dead Can Dance, and the rhythmic experiments of Nkisi.