UMFANG - Symbolic Use Of Light

UMFANG - Symbolic Use Of LightUMFANG makes her debut on Ninja Tune's Technicolour imprint with Symbolic Use Of Light. Previously sharing her analogue based rhythmic excursions via videogamemusic, 1080p, Phinery and Allergy Season, the New Yorker is a co founder of Brooklyns colossal Discwoman crew and resident at Bossa Nova Civic Clubs Technofeminism monthly. She does not like to intellectualise her art, describing her process recording tracks in live takes as being rooted in

to be released on July 10th on new home

'Catch A Fire' features Justin Broadrick (Jesu/Pale Sketcher

With its brightly pulsing synths and whistling hook

Having made fans out of Diplo and SBTRKT

intricate music to an even bigger audience

what makes rap and UK jungle work

and “Water” which picks up on TSHA’s love of the Malian Griot singing traditions (as evidenced on previous single “Demba ft

absorbs all the albums messages

where the music seemed to grow almost self aware

Little Dragon wanted to bring new music into the world that has an airy and fun lightness to it

perhaps the very act of moving away from childhood locales stirred up “memories from random times in my life

“I’ve always tried to hold true to what Erykah Badu and Flying Lotus told me: It has to come from an honest place