**Natalia Kamia** goes by Kamikuma on her SoundCloud account. She has been posting a series there that she has called “summer moods” collectively. There have been four of these “moods” so far, numbered in succession: “Summer mood 1” through “Summer mood 3,” plus the fourth with an additional provocation: “Very dark summer mood 4.” Each has at its core a specific source material, and each plays in a percussive space that is neither drone nor rhythm nor melody, but something entirely other. [“Summer mood 1”](https://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/summer-walk-1) is made from “toy flute, industrial synth,” the gestural melodic material intermingling with ringing tones and shuddery noises. [“Summer mood 2”](https://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/difficult-summer-mood-1) has another toy in its toolbox, a toy piano, in addition to field recordings of a garbage truck and “trash percussion processed”; the result is deeply sublimated, the sound of nocturnal activity. [“Summer mood 3”](https://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/summer-walk-prepr) again has the gestural sensibility of recorded motion, an abused toy piano and more “trash percussion” at work. And as for the “very dark” [“summer mood 4”](https://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/very-dark-summer-mood-4), it is dark in intent, not tone, so quiet and remote that it sounds almost desperately frigid: summery, perhaps not, but most certainly a mood.
https://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/summer-walk-1
https://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/difficult-summer-mood-1
https://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/summer-walk-prepr
https://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/very-dark-summer-mood-4
Tracks originally posted for free download at [soundcloud.com/kamikuma](https://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/). More from Kamia, who was born in Russia and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, at [nataliakamia.blogspot.com](http://nataliakamia.blogspot.com/).