Built on futurist flute sounds, elaborate rhythms and sensitive melodies, ‘Shapes in Twilights of Infinity’ unfolds like a dreamlike path into an unparalleled musical universe. With her highly anticipated first full album, multi-instrumentalist ESINAM invites us on a cosmic journey, a trip towards horizons coloured with sounds and influences that reach as far as the eye can see.

This record finds a balance between the acoustic and electronic, between the future and ancestral. The songs are deeply rooted in grooves and global sounds, at the same time composed and spontaneously evolving, always filled with a strong musical feeling. From ‘New Dawn’ with its pulsating beats, vivid flutes and poetical spoken word featuring of the Londoner Nadeem Din-Gabisi, over the soulful jazz vibe of ‘Lost Dimensions’, to the etheric melodies and mesmerizing singing of South-African guest vocalist Sibusile Xaba on ‘Flowing River’: ESINAM delivers
nothing less than a ...

Built on futurist flute sounds, elaborate rhythms and sensitive melodies, ‘Shapes in Twilights of Infinity’ unfolds like a dreamlike path into an unparalleled musical universe. With her highly anticipated first full album, multi-instrumentalist ESINAM invites us on a cosmic journey, a trip towards horizons coloured with sounds and influences that reach as far as the eye can see.

This record finds a balance between the acoustic and electronic, between the future and ancestral. The songs are deeply rooted in grooves and global sounds, at the same time composed and spontaneously evolving, always filled with a strong musical feeling. From ‘New Dawn’ with its pulsating beats, vivid flutes and poetical spoken word featuring of the Londoner Nadeem Din-Gabisi, over the soulful jazz vibe of ‘Lost Dimensions’, to the etheric melodies and mesmerizing singing of South-African guest vocalist Sibusile Xaba on ‘Flowing River’: ESINAM delivers
nothing less than a profound patchwork full of musical connections, where traces of house, trip hop and hip hop intertwine with tones from traditionals, blues and psychedelica.

Based on loops, samples, impressions and field recordings, each song follows the other like a cycle that opens, evolves, transforms and returns to the starting point. ‘Shapes in Twilights of Infinity’ became a unique music that touches the soul with emotion, that grasps you, questions you, does you good. A music that is rooted in culture and tradition while flying far away, towards tomorrow, as a surprising and engaging infinity.

Esinam Dogbatse is a Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist based in Brussels. Already at a very young age, she became fascinated by music, in particular by percussion instruments such as the tama. The piano was her first main instrument, but for practical reasons when traveling, Esinam soon opted for the flute. With her artist moniker ESINAM, she creates a musical world of her own, filled with rhythms, grooves, melodies and loops.

After starting her solo career as a “one woman band” – sampling and looping all instruments herself to build her tracks – she recently invited other musicians to join her in order to have a full live band. Still performing with both her solo and band set-up, ESINAM always unveils herself by orchestrating an authentic music full of poetry, with rhythms and melodies that make her a unique voice in today’s jazz-and-beyond scene, leaving no listener untouched.

ESINAM self-titled debut EP was released on Sdban Records in September 2018 – now totally sold out. Very favourably received by the press, the music sector and the public, she has already been invited to play on famous stages: New Morning (FR), Botanique and its festival Les Nuits (BE), Eurosonic/Noorderslag (NL), le Printemps de Bourges (FR), Europavox (FR), Prague Music Festival (CZ), Mithra Jazz in Liege (BE), Copenhagen Jazz Festival (DK), Accra Jazz Festival (GH), Brussels Jazz Festival (BE), Visa For Music (MA), Bee-Flat (CH), Gamlestaden Jazz Festival (SE), Jazz Re: Freshed (UK), Sfinksfestival (BE); Gaume Jazz Festival (BE), Gent Jazz Festival (BE), ...
As a flutist and also percussionist, she plays or has played in, amongst others, Marock’in Brass, Kel Assouf, Témé Tan and Sysmo. She has also been solicited recently by Baloji, Ibaaku and Jaguar Jaguar for musical collaborations. ESINAM has been invited as opening act for international artists including Mélanie de Biasio, Alsarah & The Nubatones, Selah Sue, Moses Sumney and Mayra Andrade....

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