Winter’s Endless Space is a rich album of human distance and proximity

by JUSTIN CERVANTES

Winter · Endless Space (Between You & I)

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Since 2012, Brazilian artist Samira Winter has been creating psychedelic rock that manifests itself more personally than her contemporaries. From the galactic cover art of her recent albums, to song titles like “Constellation” or “In The Z Plane,” and even to the spaceful tone of enrapturing psychedelic noise which washes over the listener without pause — It’s clear that Winter handles a cosmic theme in her music. And this is especially true for Winter’s new album, Endless Space (Between You & I).

Endless Space is a record of distance and proximity. Each track tends to open with a slow spaceful opening, before progressing into themes of connection, desire, and healing. Yet, the record never stagnates nor prolongs beyond needed. Rather, Endless Space has clearly been polished on all fronts. Tracks like “Bem No Fundo,” featuring Dinho Almeida, sound feverishly upbeat while the prior track, “Say,” is spaceful and heavy. Despite the vast range of emotions each track presents in the record, they all manage to remain consistent to the overarching themeand sound.

Across different points of Endless Space, Winters reaches out to the listener and pulls them into the scene, if only momentarily. On the standout track, “Here I Am Existing,” the song drives towards a climax which is realized as a backdrop of birdsongs echo with the intense psychedelic waves. If it doesn’t stir an image of the forest for you, then it sure will sound fantastic, either way. On other tracks, like “In The Z Plane,” these naturalistic sounds return in other forms to deepen the track thematically and musically.

Indeed, Winters’ Endless Space (Between You & I) is a rich album of cosmic psychedelic rock. It’s engrossing, tasteful, and perfectly cut. While it is a great album to immerse yourself in and relax, its depth offers exploration and rewards a strong catharsis which only could only be achieved by such a cosmic expression of human connection and distance.

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Listen to Endless Space (Between You & I) by Winter out on Bar/None Records and keep up with us on Instagram for more astral projection soundtracks

Words by Justin Cervantes

Photos by Adrian Vega Albela Osorio + Taylor Lacayo