Album Review: Endlessness by Nala Sinephro

You don't need to believe in reincarnation to appreciate Nala Sinephro's latest album, but as a device for forcing you to listen closely and ponder deeply, it works beautifully. An album of permeable borders and diverging paths, Endlessness sees the Caribbean-Belgian composer and her collaborators fuse elements of avant-jazz and electronic music into a 45-minute composition split into ten distinct movements. Continuum 1 opens proceedings as Morgan Simpson's loose, rolling drums and James Mollison's mournful saxophone take turns navigating the complex stellar tapestry created by Sinephro's modular synth, whose spaced-out arpeggios give the album a feeling of momentum.

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finally the perfect reverie you deserve Endlessness is probably a perfect album: over ten pieces and a 45-minute runtime (perfect number, ideal length), Nala Sinephro cycles between timbres and intensities with such magnetic cohesion, straddling jazz, ambient, progressive electronic and New Age ….

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You’ll never find Nala Sinephro shying away from extensive concepts. Having debuted to critical acclaim in 2021 with Space 1.8, the composer and multi-instrumentalist widens the scope of her already expansive work with the new release Endlessness. Inspired by existence itself, Endlessness is a work of vast cosmic cycles, a suite in which the electric and the acoustic roll together in symphonic jazz music of heroic proportions.

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For those who embraced it, Nala Sinephro's debut album 'Space 1.8' offers a glimpse of the divine. Unshackled from expectations, it founds the composer - and her trusty harp - moving into the unknown, easing the listener into unfathomable spaces. As a follow-up, 'Endlessness' comes with no small degree of pressure. Remarkably, it ups the ante still further, an ode to life, beauty, and the joy found in the mundane, an audio diary that could only come from one voice, at one time.

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