Puma Blue | Live at Control | 31.05
Schedule
Fri May 31 2024 at 08:00 pm
UTC+03:00Location
Control Club | Bucharest, BU
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South-London born, Atlanta-based singer-songwriter đđŞđ˘đ đ˝đĄđŞđ will perform for the first time in Bucharest this spring â 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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âIâve been trying to make peace with death,â smiles Jacob Allen, the singer-songwriter, producer and poet better known as Puma Blue, bashfully aware of the abstract stateliness his avowal holds. âItâs horrible and itâs painful. Iâd never say that it isnât. Yet at the same time, the process of it all can be beautiful.â Death nestles like a sweet creature at the heart of Holy Waters, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2021âs In Praise of Shadows, released September 2023 via Blue Flowers. Itâs 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 albumâs close, to keep going, âdonât let the dark take you wholeâ. Itâs the hope-tinged bleakness that gets you.
Recorded with his live band over the course of two visits to Eastbourneâs Echo Zoo Studios, Holy Waters also marks a sharp departure from the solo bedroom productions of early EP releases, 2017âs âSwum Babyâ and 2018âs âBlood Lossâ, 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 â Puma Blue, the unwavering jukebox, wide awake. âI look back at [In Praise of Shadows] and feel grateful that I managed to express what I was going throughâ, he says reflectively, his choice of the singular pronoun feeling all the more significant as he continues, âbut this time, when I sit down and listen to a tune, I get more excited because itâs what my friends were doing, from their brains in that moment and we managed to record it.â
âA hazy dreamland for listeners to get lost inâ - NME ****
âMusic of real tension and originalityâ - The Sunday Times
âPuma Blue processes [his] pain with a hypnotic tendernessâ - Billboard
âA wonderfully bleary-eyed focus that ties together jazz, ambient, acoustic singer-songwriter and blues in one beautiful stretched reverieâ - Loud & Quiet
https://pumablue.co.uk/
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Where is it happening?
Control Club, Str. Constantin Mille, nr. 4,Bucharest, RomaniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays: