German ambient/post-rock/shoegaze quartet Nava Calma stream their debut album »The Full Weight Of Everything«; out today via Stellar Frequencies!

Berlin, Germany based ambient/post-rock/shoegaze quartet Nava Calma has just released their debut album »The Full Weight Of Everything« this Friday, July 12th, 2024 via Stellar Frequencies.

Tracklist:
01. When It Needlessly Breaks Me
02. A Last Hurrah For The Bedlam
03. Eating Nails
04. Bed Of Salt
05. A Body
06. Idhama
07. In Cloak
08. XXXXX
09. Full Of Spite Like The Rain
10. When It Finally Takes Me

Nava Calma was born out of a desire for symbiosis. For connection. From the very beginning as a solo project of a young musician looking for meaning, its intent was to connect the sonic dots of its creator’s identity to form something that’s more than the sum of its parts.

Now acting as a full band the four-piece from Berlin, Germany channel their innermost connection to the world around them through weeping melodies perched on top of shoegazey pads and soundscapes which are then delivered with an explosive and manic urgency and relentless drums. Their sound nests within the realms of post-rock, shoegaze, post-metal and the ever so ambiguous term “dreamo”, drawing from artists like Holy Fawn, Emma Ruth Rundle or »Koi No Yokan«-era Deftones.

Photo by Oyemi Hessou

Their first full length album »The Full Weight Of Everything« shows the dynamic range the band is capable of. A gentle hum that lulls you in is paired with gravity defying blankets of sound and piercing lead lines. One second it’s loud, hectic and cathartic. Then it’s quiet, embracing and delicate.

An unexpected, daring genre-shift away from the project’s glitch/breakbeat beginnings travelling further back to the start of the members’ musical origins. Guitar music. A change that was equally scary and freeing.

Vocalist Hannah Louve Benedum speaks about what it means to be a human surrounded by other humans. How we relate to each other. How the smallest action can have the biggest impact and begs the question how one might find a place in this world full of endless stimuli and sounds so rich they turn into white noise.

How do you bear the full weight of everything and what will it do to you when you finally feel it?

The band describes it as: “A celebration of youth, its fickleness and growing up.”

Composed by Hannah Louve Benedum, Eric Pauly, Philipp Nosko, Maeve Westall.
Lyrics by Hannah Louve Benedum.
Produced and mixed by Philipp Nosko.
Mastered by Bob Cooper.

Nava Calma is:
Hannah Louve Benedum – Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Eric Pauly – Guitar
Maeve Westall – Drums
Philipp Nosko – Backing Vocals

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well