Listening to Devi Mambouka, known as Masma Dream World, is bearing witness to a personal journey through hell and back. “In the darkest corners of isolation, pain, and despair, my cries for my mother echoed into the abyss. Instead of succumbing to the void, I was found by the goddess, who saved me from my final attempt to escape this mortal coil.” PLEASE COME TO ME is an invitation to a private ritual of healing, an invocation to the ancestors, and a communion with nature. They are the sounds of an elemental longing, and it will haunt you. As a child in Gabon, she sang to the trees, and her music transports you into the depths of the forest in the night, a scary but thrilling place to get lost. She would hear and see ghosts in her father’s house, and she still hears the spirits.
PLEASE COME TO ME was recorded over the course of two weekends with no specific concept in mind, but the result was years in the making, time focused on deepening her spirituality through meditation, Hindu mysticism, and Vedantic texts. At the same time, she was learning the craft, training in sound therapy, audio engineering, and sound design. The technical developing with the spiritual, the electronic with the natural.
