I just stumbled upon Calida Ray's brand new release Breathing Underwater, and I absolutely loved the way our mates at Kommerz Records pitched it, "ambient jazz for the open-minded".
On this mini-album Breathing Underwater, the Berlin-based singer, producer, and pianist, who we've featured before, invites us deeper into his genre-fluid world. It feels like a sonic universe where r&b, ambient soundscapes, electronica, and experimental jazz drift and collide in the most effortless harmony. I was instantly drawn to a collaboration with Nigerian-American singer osaremen called "past stars/into blue". It sounds as if Sade were to make music with Shigeto and Frank Ocean.
“Breathing Underwater is a reflection of reverence for the vastness of nature, an overwhelming force of which I’m only a tiny fragment. At the centre is the element of water, which for me is a symbol of calm and safety, yet also of isolation and numbness. This ambivalence mirrors the timeless inner journey toward self-reconciliation and wholeness. Underwater, everything feels different - like being suspended in a surreal state. To escape it, I must rise to the surface. Until then, I breathe underwater.”, Calida Ray shares.
This song makes me feel light as a feather.
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