Nala Sinephro is a Belgian-Caribbean composer and pedal harpist, born in Brussels in 1995 and based in London, blending harp, modular synth, and spiritual jazz in the Alice Coltrane lineage. Her Warp debut Space 1.8 (2021) is stunning, and Endlessness (2024) was hailed as one of the essential jazz records of that year. Explore Nala Sinephro vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Nala Sinephro was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1995 to Martinican and Caribbean heritage. She studied music in Brussels before relocating to London. Her distinctive combination of pedal harp, modular synthesizer, and contemporary jazz composition has positioned her at the forefront of the contemporary London spiritual jazz scene. She signed with Warp Records for her 2021 debut Space 1.8, which received critical attention. Her 2024 follow-up Endlessness - featuring contributions from Nubya Garcia, James Mollison, Sheila Maurice-Grey, and others - was widely cited as one of the most important contemporary jazz albums of 2024.
Nala Sinephro's sound combines contemporary jazz, spiritual jazz, ambient, modal jazz, jazz fusion, electronic, and minimalism with her distinctive pedal harp and modular synthesizer arrangements, extensive instrumental improvisation by collaborators, and arrangements drawing on classic Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders spiritual jazz traditions alongside contemporary ambient and minimalist composition.
Warp Records pressings of the Nala Sinephro catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings, with collector demand.
Listeners new to Nala Sinephro typically start with Endlessness (2024) or Space 1.8 (2021).
