A Shapeless Pool of Lovely Pale Colours Suspended in the Darkness, by Smurphy

A Shapeless Pool of Lovely Pale Colours Suspended in the Darkness

by Smurphy

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"Whatever the track markers might indicate, the songs on Mexico City producer Jessica Smurphy's new full length flow together into long, seamless movements of ambient haze and machinelike footwork. She is a psychedelic artist at heart, with an approach that goes to the marrow of the mind/body dichotomy."

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"The title of Jessica Smurphy's new album came from a sentence that the Mexico City producer stumbled across in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan: "If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colors suspended in the darkness." That description, which sounds a bit like a compositional prompt Yoko Ono or John Cage might have come up with, happened to correspond with her image of love. But not just romantic love, and definitely not Hallmark Cards' definition—more like love as a cosmic thing, boundless and electric; love as the connective tissue of the universe. "Love is not only pink ribbons and sugar, it is a living thing, it is sudden, it is insane," she says.

Smurphy's synaesthesia game must be strong, because Shapeless Pool sounds, in fact, like all those things at once—a squirmy living being, writhing, twitching, sticky sweet. Smurphy comes from Mexico's NAAFI crew, which made its name by putting an idiosyncratic spin on jagged, avowedly marginal styles, from moombahton to tribal guarachero to Jersey-inspired club. But she makes a good fit on Leaving, an L.A. label, run by Matthewdavid, that specializes in outer-limits music from artists like Ras G, M. Geddes Gengras, Knxwledge, and even Julia Holter. She is a psychedelic artist at heart, with an approach that goes to the marrow of the mind/body dichotomy.

There are two main facets to her music: hazy ambient and machinelike footwork. The rhythms, played out on high-pitched electronic toms and leathery hand-drum samples, move so fast that they seem almost to stand still. And the haze, meanwhile, works in the opposite way: as a nearly static, gelatinous mass that gradually yields a wealth of detail, the longer you look at it. It all seems simple, lo-fi, even a little bit crude, but it turns out to be wildly complex, and impossible to take in all at once: Every time one thing is revealed, something else is hidden. It's the mountaineer's dilemma: you can focus on the sparkling mineral in the rock face or the overwhelming bulk of the mountain itself, but you can't appreciate both at once.

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released May 12, 2015

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SMURPHY Mexico

🌿 Plant based music producer, art director & designer from Mexico city.

Her sound is influenced by 90s electronic styles and bass music. Her records have been ranked in the best releases of the year in Pitchfork, SPIN, Tinymixtapes and other media. She's been recognized as a top performer in Mutek. ... more

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