Uma E. Fernqvist delivers inspirations from her career in theatre to a more personal and intimate arena with new downtempo EP ‘Reverse’
Having been one of the world’s foremost professional dancers for more than 20 years, Sweden’s Uma E Fernqvist has now taken her love of movement and music to compose her very first EP, ‘Reverse’, out now via Jubel.
Inspired by the ethereal 90s trip-hop movement, spearheaded by Lamb and Portishead, as well as her own involvement in the cinematic world of dance, ‘Reverse’ plays as a truly mesmerising experience. Bringing together a mix of blissful instrumentation and pulsing percussion, Uma E is setting herself up as an artist with great passion and a true eye for captivating rhythm.
From the glitching, Bjork-inspired opener ‘Stay’ to the atmospheric closer ‘For You’, ‘Reverse’ aims to collect all the various inspirations from her career in theatre and bring them to a more personal and intimate arena. Haunting yet vulnerable, her debut EP is the result of a life of sheer expression poured out on stereo.
Speaking on the EP, Uma stated:
“The songs on “Reverse” have grown out of thoughts about finding back to something in oneself, in relation to how one get affected by “life”… about waiting for one self, finding back to something lost. But I want the texts to be open for interpretation, the lyrics have double, triple meaning … To me, they even have change meaning during the time spent completing the Ep’n.
Both me and the songwriter and producer Peter Svenzon were inspired by the 90’s Trip hop and groups such as Massive Attack and Portishead. We investigated and experimented for a long time to find the right sound, and found that the textures were very important and that we wanted a cinematic feel that is especially noted in intron and outron at Ep’n. In the search for the right sound, we also contacted the multiple Grammys winner Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studios in London for mastering the songs.”
‘Reverse’ was produced and mixed alongside Peter Svenzon at Nåck Studios Music, and mastered by Mandy Parnell at the Black Saloon Studio.
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