NELE DE GUSSEM - THE LOOM OF LONGING

VIERNULVIER RECORDS

£24.80

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: VIERNULVIER009
Barcode: 5414165091363
Release Date: 28 Feb 2025
Genre: Electronic/Ambient/Psychedelic

Ghent-based singer-songwriter and composer Nele De Gussem (Uma Chine) announces her debut solo album ‘The Loom Of Longing’ on Viernulvier Records. Balancing mystic pop, psychedelic ambiance, and pulsating electronica, her debut LP weaves a divine, harmonic universe.

To shape her divine harmonic universe, she has a preoccupation with soundscaping that involves using her sensual voice and electronic/analog instruments as a sort of palette of rich textures where she’s the auteur, as opposed to the cog in a bigger machine as she’s been with her band, Uma Chine.

“This album celebrates having found desire as a compass in my life and as a medicine to quell fear, holding back and keeping silent.” — NELE DE GUSSEM

The cracking first single from the album - ‘Wonder’ comes with an eye-popping music video by Belgian visual artist Victor Verhelst (STROOM). Verhelst crafts a unique collage of 90s computer game-inspired motion graphics, which has an otherworldly appeal and highly symbiotic relationship with the music.

Rarely do the marriage of visual and musical arts come together so invitingly. Of the single’s feel, Nele De Gussem says: “‘Wonder’ is about the paradoxical situation of being at a party and finding stillness within.Introspection amid exuberance; tranquillity amid joy. It’s like being swept away by a rush of light - feeling our head in the clouds - but feeling equal magic in the corporeal self.”

A1. Wonder A2. Say Yes A3. Harvest A4. The Gardener B1. The Pool B2. The Loom B3. Chavanon B4. Empty Room