Masma Dream World releases New Album "PLEASE COME TO ME"

Masma Dream World has releasesd her new album, PLEASE COME TO ME, due out February 21 and shared the record's title track. The experimental project led by Devi Mambouka, 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. “PLEASE COME TO ME” is an invitation to a private ritual of healing, an invocation to the mother of the universe and a communion with the unseen world.

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“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’

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William Hooker Announces Archival Live Album from 1977

Featuring William Hooker (drums), David S. Ware (tenor saxophone), and Alan Braufman (alto saxophone), this recording captures a rare and electrifying moment in time. Recorded live at the New York Jazz Museum on January 14, 1977, the album has been newly mastered by Joe Lambert and released for the first time on March 28, 2025.

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This album was recorded at a pivotal moment in each musician's career. William Hooker, already recognized as one of the most innovative drummers on the free jazz scene, was forging new paths with his fiercely creative compositions and collaborations. David S. Ware was on the verge of debuting as a bandleader with Birth of a Being (Hathut), foreshadowing the spiritually charged and deeply expressive playing that would define his influential career. And Alan Braufman had recently released his debut album, Valley of Search (India Navigation), establishing himself as a key figure in the loft jazz movement.

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Masma Dream World Announces New Album "PLEASE COME TO ME"

Masma Dream World has announced her new album, PLEASE COME TO ME, due out February 21 and shared the record's title track. The experimental project led by Devi Mambouka, 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. “PLEASE COME TO ME” is an invitation to a private ritual of healing, an invocation to the mother of the universe and a communion with the unseen world. To celebrate the release, Masma Dream World will perform at New York’s Public Records on February 20th.

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PLEASE COME TO ME 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. At the same time, she was learning the craft, training in sound therapy, audio engineering, and sound design. The technical developing alongside the spiritual, the electronic with the natural.

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Introducing Masma Dream World

Today, Devi Mambouka has shared her latest single as Masma Dream World, the thunderous and ceremonial “Ancient DNA,” The song is Mambouka’s first release since her 2020 album 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. 

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With roots in Gabon and Singapore, Mambouka is a child of the world. She recalls rainforest rituals and the presence of ghosts 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.

On today’s single, Mambouka shares “The Melody came to me as a haunting whisper, while I was visiting my cousin Diyendo who investigates the evolutionary history of modern and extinct human populations using ancient DNA at Yale. - ‘Coded in our being we remember.’” 

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Alan Braufman releases new song "Snow in Central Park"

Today, the acclaimed New York City-based saxophonist and flutist Alan Braufman shares “Snow in Central Park,” a new single that was recorded at the same time as his acclaimed album Infinite Love Infinite Tears. Braufman says about “Snow in Central Park”: “Last November, we recorded seven songs, six of which are on the album. A seventh song would have made an annoyingly short double LP, and the vibe of this song was quite different from the rest of the album. So we decided to release this last track from that session on its own. “Snow in Central Park” recalls the peaceful falling snow in the park on many wintery NYC walks and runs over the years.”

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Alan Braufman releases new album, announces June 7 Brooklyn performance

Alan Braufman has released the new album “Infinite Love Infinite Tears” on LP, CD and digital formats.album.

“Infinitely rewarding - Jazz Collector

“Braufman’s spiraling, uplifting compositions occupy an evolving space where jazz’s past and future collide.” - MOJO / 4 stars

“Utter beauty in the form of intense fragments of joy and thunder” / “Like his free jazz predecessors, Coltrane, Cherry and Coleman, Braufman finds spirituality in every note.” Downbeat / 4 stars

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Alan Braufman will perform at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust on June 7 with a band that includes Patricia Brennan, Ken Filiano, Brandon Woody, Newman Baker Taylor, and an opening solo set by Cooper-Moore. Tickets are available HERE.

Alan Braufman announces new album, Infinite Love Infinite Tears

Alan Braufman has announced his new album “Infinite Love Infinite Tears.” the LP, CD and digital album will be released on May 17, 2024. “Infinite Love Infinite Tears” is a surprisingly catchy program of free jazz, richly detailed and forthright, embodying a range of emotions and circumstances that convey individuality, collectivity and hope. There is much history and love in this band, and in Alan Braufman’s art overall. Fifty-odd years after debuting on record, his sound-world is as vital and inviting as ever.

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Valley of Search celebrates 5 years

Valley of Search launched in 2018 as a vehicle to reissue Alan Braufman’s 1975 album of the same name. In the summer of 2018, Alan, Cooper-Moore, and a new band of New York musicians performed the album live for the first time since it was recorded. Valley of search label founder and Alan’s nephew Nabil Ayers wrote a substack post about the process of reissuing the album and the surrounding synergy. Below are some photos that Gabriela Bhaskar took on the day of the August 3, 2018 Brooklyn show.

Read Nabil Ayers’ substack post HERE

Read the 2018 New York Times feature HERE

Listen to Alan Braufman’s music HERE