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South-London born, Atlanta-based singer-songwriter ššŖš¢š š½š”šŖš will perform for the first time in Bucharest this spring ā May 31 at Control Club. The artist is currently on a European tour promoting his second album, "Holy Waters", released last year.Tickets are now available via Eventbook.ro.
* Presale : 75 RON (first 100 tickets). Afterwards, the price will go up to 95 RON per ticket.
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āIāve been trying to make peace with death,ā smiles Jacob Allen, the singer-songwriter, producer and poet better known as Puma Blue, bashfully aware of the abstract stateliness his avowal holds. āItās horrible and itās painful. Iād never say that it isnāt. Yet at the same time, the process of it all can be beautiful.ā Death nestles like a sweet creature at the heart of Holy Waters, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2021ās In Praise of Shadows, released September 2023 via Blue Flowers. Itās less a morbid study in mortality, more a chronicle of the graciousness within each repeated cycle of life, death and rebirth, arriving eventually at a gentle affirmation to himself, to the listener, at the albumās close, to keep going, ādonāt let the dark take you wholeā. Itās the hope-tinged bleakness that gets you.
Recorded with his live band over the course of two visits to Eastbourneās Echo Zoo Studios, Holy Waters also marks a sharp departure from the solo bedroom productions of early EP releases, 2017ās āSwum Babyā and 2018ās āBlood Lossā, an isolated approach that was later enforced upon his debut album during lockdown. Writing his decade-long struggle with insomnia into an album of uncannily nocturnal music felt like a selfless act at Emes, hazily allowing others to drift through sleep states at his expense ā Puma Blue, the unwavering jukebox, wide awake. āI look back at [In Praise of Shadows] and feel grateful that I managed to express what I was going throughā, he says reflectively, his choice of the singular pronoun feeling all the more significant as he continues, ābut this time, when I sit down and listen to a tune, I get more excited because itās what my friends were doing, from their brains in that moment and we managed to record it.ā
āA hazy dreamland for listeners to get lost inā - NME ****
āMusic of real tension and originalityā - The Sunday Times
āPuma Blue processes [his] pain with a hypnotic tendernessā - Billboard
āA wonderfully bleary-eyed focus that ties together jazz, ambient, acoustic singer-songwriter and blues in one beautiful stretched reverieā - Loud & Quiet
https://pumablue.co.uk/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Control Club, Str. Constantin Mille, nr. 4,Bucharest, Romania
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