Karima Walker announces new album
KARIMA WALKER ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM WAKING THE DREAMING BODY, OUT 26 FEBRUARY VIA KEELED SCALES AND ORINDAL RECORDS
SHARES VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE ‘RECONSTELLATED’
“A perfect balance of beauty and abstraction”
Mojo ‘Rising’
“Exquisitely crafted”
GoldFlakePaint
“Hands in Our Names illustrates what she does best as a composer: She looks at the familiar from different angles, and stares intently at everything until it feels new again”
7.4 Pitchfork
Watch the video for ‘Reconstellated’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op1ByVKo8wc
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Tucson, Arizona artist Karima Walker has announced the follow-up to her acclaimed 2017 album Hands In Our Names with a music video for the first track on the album ‘Reconstellated’. The track premiered via GoldFlakePaint who called it, “a mesmerising taster, the track is a subtle weave of song that impresses just a little further with each listen”. The album Waking the Dreaming Body will be co-released on February 26, 2021 via Keeled Scales and Orindal Records.
The new album Waking the Dreaming Body was written, performed and engineered entirely by Walker, with the exception of bass from C.J. Boyd on the song ‘Window I’. Producing the album on her own wasn’t Walker’s original plan, though. A sudden illness forced her to cancel recording sessions in New York, and soon after the pandemic ruled out the possibility of returning.Instead she made the record at her makeshift home studio in Tucson. She spent the following months recording, processing and arranging her self-described “messy Ableton sessions” into densely harmonic arrangements of synthesiser, guitar, piano, percussion, field recordings, tape loops and her own dulcet singing voice.”
I wanted these songs to stand alone as complete worlds” says Karima”, “this required a shift in my usual way of writing. I found myself trying to escape from an excess of interiority by exploring outward, by thinking about the mirroring that happens when you seek connection to others and to the world—when you try to bring the outside in. I sought to make arrangements that swell at certain moments and barely hold together at others, moving with my breath and other rhythms connecting my body to the natural world.”
The final result is a 40-minute dream-narrative of her conscious and subconscious minds that oscillates between the rich textures of her ambient compositions (as in the instrumental ‘For Heddi’) and the melody and poetry of her melancholic songwriting, as in the album-opener ‘Reconstellated’ and the title track ‘Waking the Dreaming Body’. As night repeatedly falls across the record – this ebb and flow recalls the liminal states of half-sleep.
As indicated by the video for ‘Reconstellated’, Waking the Dreaming Body holds a deep connection to the environs in which it was created, the delicacy, grandeur and terrifying enormity of the American Southwest. The mountains, rivers and starry skies of Walker’s desert home are referenced in nearly every song she sings on the album, simultaneously grounding the action and imbuing it with a sense of otherworldliness.
“Sonoran sky plays a movie
Draw a line to the stars inside of me
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I know where I am but I can’t tell where I started”
— ‘Reconstellated’
“Tucson is where I grew up, I moved here from California as a kid,” Walker recalls. “And after leaving for school and traveling, I moved back about seven years ago. It’s such a distinct and notable place to folks not from the desert, but this is my home. My formative understanding of the natural world, aside from the ocean, comes from here, so it always seems to make its way into my work. I think that porousness would be there regardless of where I was, but I do think that the pandemic forced me back into the desert seasons in a way that I hadn’t experienced since I was a kid. We had one of our hottest and driest summers on record, and I usually try to tour when it’s super-hot at home. But this year I was kinda stuck, the mountain where everyone runs away from the heat, about an hour away, caught fire and burned for weeks so there really was no escaping it. I started thinking about our rivers – they’re called dead rivers or washes, because they don’t run usually, and our watershed, all the plants that survive here and the seasons that were still happening even under all the stress of this summer.”
Photo credit: Holly HallHigh-res images can be found here.
Preorder the album on special-edition vinyl, black vinyl, CD, & cassette here:
https://karimawalker.bandcamp.com/album/waking-the-dreaming-body
Waking the Dreaming Body tracklist:
1. Reconstellated
2. Softer
3. Interlude
4. Window I
5. Window II
6. Horizon, Harbor Resonance
7. Waking the Dreaming Body
8. For Heddi
9. Uncovering