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Marina Herlop - abans abans
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 128S3
Format: DL
Release Date: 4 May 2022
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/abansabans

Third single from the upcoming debut album by Marina Herlop on PAN. Composed, produced and recorded by Marina Herlop.

Mix: James Ginzburg
Master: Joker

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Marina Herlop - abans abans (PAN 128S3)

From KMRU & Aho Ssan's Limen LP

Vinyl & digital album: https://kmruahossan.bandcamp.com/album/limen

Released on April 29th, 2022

Last year, Kenyan sound artist Joseph Kamaru (aka KMRU) and French digital alchemist Niamké Désiré (aka Aho Ssan) were invited by Berlin Atonal to collaborate on a project for the festival's Metabolic Rift edition.

The duo had already been working together, but the offer provided the momentum to shift the conversation into another gear. Initially, they looked for thematic connections within their individual practices that might match Kamaru's meditative soundscapes with Désiré's crumbling cyberpunk expressionism, and surprisingly for two artists renowned for their grasp of minimalism, it was the opposite that drew their attention. Watching the world shift as it reacted to the spiraling pandemic, Kamaru and Désiré were moved to experiment with volume, physicality, and intense emotionality.

“I never made something so extreme," Désiré says of the duo's first recording, 2021's 'Ruined Abstractions', an extended composition that matches dense, powerful low-end drones with fractal digital fuzz and smokestack bruit. It set the mood for a back-and-forth that resulted in their seismic debut full-length, "Limen", described by the two acclaimed artists as an attempt to scrutinize the yin and yang of destruction and creation.

Cacophonous, concrete crunches fanfare the album's opening piece 'Resurgence' - the result of their Berlin Atonal commission - but the track refuses to languish in wrecking ball devastation. Instead, powerful synthesized harmonies ring from beneath the rubble, before stifling everything in a humid fuzz of dense, emotionally-charged cinematic electronics.

Influenced by the prescient post-apocalyptic mood of Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira" and the mythological phoenix, an immortal bird said to be reborn from the ashes of its dying predecessor, "Limen" is an album that sonically snapshots the anxious, floral beauty of an explosion or the colorful intensity of a raging fire. It's rooted in concepts of duality - the idea something unsettling can be viewed from a different angle and re-interpreted.

On the album's epic, 21-minute centerpiece 'Ruined Abstraction I + II', swirling electromagnetic interference paints a haunted parallel vista that dissolves slowly into subtle, orchestral tones and booming, widescreen thuds.

Almost angelic closing track 'Rebirth' meanwhile is the most unashamedly beautiful composition Kamaru and Désiré have written together, but its choral bliss is doused in petroleum noise and saturated distortion.

"Limen" is an album that seeks to lift a veil of silence from the world, replacing it with maximalist bombast and vivid passion. It's a dynamic piece of work that finds its creators pushing themselves to the limits, deconstructing history as it detonates around us. 

All tracks written and produced by Joseph Kamaru
and Niamké Désiré; mastered by Joker

Published by Multiverse Media Publishing
© & ℗ Subtext / Multiverse LTD 2022

http://subtextrecordings.net/

Limen

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Rebirth

song from a cpl years back

https://asiootus.bandcamp.com/album/-

mastered by @usofusofusofusof <3

Eggteen

last liasse

helen island - thank you

Knowing you by heart, 
at least that's what you thought

Focus (folk version)(meditative demo)

HOAX

ASFT ISSOK

‘Mutant Standard’ is taken from ‘Garden Of Delete’ out 13 November 2015 on @warp-records – http://s.warp.net/g-o-d

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Free DL: https://sodaplains.bandcamp.com/album/she-has-all-kinds-of-temperatures-rodeo

Cover art by Ben Toms
Mastered by Cristo Gavras

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She Has All Kinds of Temperatures

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A digital postcard from oqbqbo & Scandinavian Star from their home in Copenhagen. 

Two collaborative tracks sent with best wishes. We hope that they find you safe and well in these strange and troubling times. 


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