Uma was born and grew up in Barcelona and classically trained in violin from the age of four. Her British mother trained in performance arts and Thai father worked in a hospice in the slums of Bangkok as a young man. As well as her musical upbringing of Joni Mitchell, Buika, Nico and Ella Fitzgerald, Uma credits travelling and growing up around several cultures as a key ingredient in her work. She currently lives in Barcelona with her partner Salpa and the pair collaborated on 2020’s “Bring Me The Mountain” double A side. Uma’s work is written and performed at Can Obert, her home-come-music-residency that has seen over twenty-five young artists pass through including Alice Bloomfield, Max Pope, Amy May Ellis and Nilüfer Yanya. The residency has become a hotbed of creativity and collaboration, producing over twenty songs in a week. Uma continues to experiment with her sound, playing with space, electronics, and styles from bossa nova right through to pop.
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With Covid-19 bringing the world to a grinding halt, we were granted a rare period of reflection. During this time, Jude would pass by houses where he had grown-up, or unassuming public locations that hold personal significance as they took on an ever-shifting sentimental context. With the pandemic raging on, leaving many divisions of society without furlough, we saw the communities who populate these neighbourhoods banding together to provide mutual aid. “The message in ‘No Angels’ is about more than lockdown specifically,” Jude says of the track. ‘Community and solidarity is the most important thing, and will always be in conflict with the forces of capital and money.’ With knowing nods to sonic movements that are so deeply associated with the capital’s working class neighbourhoods, the track’s chorus hook says it all in its simplicity: “you say the money doesn’t matter too much / you say the love for your people is enough.” Savage Messiah, Laura Grace Ford’s graphic novel about London outcasts and psychogeography within the city, provided inspiration during the single’s incubation period.
‘Chaser’ sees Glows take us by the hand and lead us through the final echoes of the party, guided by GG skips’ slacker vocal. Minimal slow-build keyboard makes way for oscillating synth riffs to skip over four-on-the-floor percussion; impactful in their presence, whilst subtle enough to feel just out of reach. The first track that skips birthed under the Glows moniker, ‘Chaser’ remained hidden away until being reworked with childhood friend Felix BH after he became a fully-fledged part of the project. It’s a track which exemplifies the duo’s talents for skirting the corridor between the dancefloor and the chill room with effortless composure. “Chaser feels like the axiom on which Glows was based, the first song I made that people took seriously,” skips says of the single. ‘It’s about chasing the night, about addiction seeping through friendship, about supporting each other through all falling down.’
Terror Peaks
SD056
Aga Ujma
Songs Of Innocence and Experience
SD054
Uma
The Moth & The Dove
SD049
Saint Jude
Bodies Of Water
SD047
Fran Lobo
Brave EP
SD033
Bel･li
SD027
SD020
Glows
J.L. HOOKER LOVE PLEASURE FOREVER
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James Martin
Our Giant Panda Is Not Pregnent
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GG Skips
GG1
Cope
SD010
Martha Skye Murphy
Heroides
SD008
Hambling
Oh Babes/ Harsh Truthz
SD003
DIVVAS
Challenger Deep
Platonica Erotica
Chaser
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Mela Femmina
Hello Chic
SD072
Feedback Song (feat. Low Loudly)
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Bara & Isa
Gate Song
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MAY
LUCKY
Ebyan
Matar
Teeth Machine
Drive By DK
Double Helix
Rat Rave
EXPORT
On Scene
In Tongues
Dressed Down
McCabe
Supermodel
Binti Red
Dexter
Bestias
Wicked
Heka & GG Skips
High Tide For The Wicked
Aright, All Tied
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Maybe We'll Wake Up
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I Can't Be Your Everything
SD059
Tropic
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Tropic / Hold Hold
Marriage Of Convenience
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In The Ocean
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Nebula
Altitude
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Molina
↼ Oo°⌕⟜ ⇀ Blis
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Sᐝo⼁❘ ︲⏐ ˌ ˈ ̩/ Showyou
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Brave (Glows Remix)
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Bring Me The Mountain (feat. Lucy Lu)
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Brave (Loraine James Remix)
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Roscoe Roscoe
Brain Retrieve
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EASY
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Keep The Light Inside The House
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Astronaut/ Mockingbird
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Head Is Spinning
SD019
Deaf Ears, Blind Years
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Good Dog, Bag Dog
SD015
Black Eye
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I'm Not Looking
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Pet Grotesque
Boy
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Great Dad
1000 Speedboats / Humming
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Foam
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PERLA
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Sarah Meth
Blue
No Angels
Crocodile
V/A
Slow Dance '21
Slow Dance '20
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Late Works
Slow Dance presents Late Works: Of Noise
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Slow Dance '19
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Slow Dance '18
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Slow Dance '17
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Slow Dance '16
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