Nala SinephroSpace 1.8 Vinyl 2LP

Nala Sinephro grew up on the outskirts of Brussels, the daughter of a classical piano teacher and a jazz saxophonist, and discovered the harp at an arts high school with a jazz department. In London she came up alongside Shabaka Hutchings and Nubya Garcia and played regularly with the improvisation collective Steam Down. Her debut fuses ambient music with spiritual jazz, built with a deliberate minimalism. She wrote the pieces on piano across 2018 and 2019 and recorded her pedal harp and modular synth parts at home, then took them to Pink Bird studio to record with Garcia, saxophonist James Mollison, drummer Jake Long and bassist Twm Dylan. Space 1.8 came out on Warp in 2021 and placed 24th on Pitchfork’s 50 Best Albums of that year.