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Electronic musician and sound artist Josep Kamaru, aka KMRU, takes us on our first December sonic journey.
Born in Nairobi and currently based in Berlin, KMRU is a sound artist and producer whose methods include field recording, improvisation, noise, machine learning, radio art and drones. With a paramount sound and visual sensibility, his work is reminiscent of ambient masters such as Lawrence English. KMRU’s sound though is uniquely positioned between the rarely-married cultures of ambient and African music, entwining his compositions with field recordings from his native Kenya and the surrounding countries of East Africa.

Self-releasing his productions, these have been received very enthusiastically by both critics and the audience. In 2020, he released three albums that showed the depth and range of his sound: Peel, an LP of hypnotic drones on the avant-garde institution Editions Mego; Opaquer, a collection of vivid and dreamlike sound sculptures; and Jar, a dreamlike cassette of found sounds and analogue ambience. KMRU hasn’t stopped in 2021 with a few more releases including Logue, an album Formed of tracks written from 2017 to 2019, which represents an artist not only in command of his form but also willing to develop and evolve, ready to deconstruct and radically refocus his music to explore new contours of experimental and ambient sound design.

This mix he shares is a liminal narrative of falling asleep, each track feels like an episode of a hypnagogic state. I’ve been thinking deeply about dreams and nostalgia this past week and these tracks evoke this feeling.


Tracklist:
Patricia Wolf - Morning Light
KMRU & Nyokabi Kariuki – unreleased
Fields We Found – Drops
Alexandra Spence - Suddenly Silent
Perila & Ulla - every something is an echo of nothing
Kevin Richard Martin - In Slow Motion
Klara Lewis & Peder Mannerfelt - Styrofoam Tone
Pita - Two Top Five
Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin - Uptown Psychedelia
Aho Ssan - Outro (KMRU Remix)
Tashi Wada - March 2007
MIGUEL ANGEL TOLOSA - salon 09-02
loscil – Vespera
The Transcendence Orchestra - Weather Series
John Hassel -Hex
Sarah Davachi - Border of Mind

CLOT Magazine presents KMRU - Encouraged Rain

Somewhere 2 comes from Slovakian artist Adela Mede, author of the spellbinding tape Szabadság that's easily one of the most astounding things we've heard this year. Guided by the potency of her raw vocals, Adela explores folk tradition through a kaleidoscopic buzz of processed electronics, her ineffable vocals shining through in pure lucidity.

Through this mix, Adela continues her exploration of the voice. Repeating vocals chants feed into haunting moments of dissonance, heightening the innate beauty of the unprocessed song that shimmers beneath.

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Żegnaj Ziemio Ojczysta - Bogdan Raczynski - Muzyka Dla Imigrantów 
Five Margarets - Ani Zakareishvili - SLEEPERS POETS SCIENTISTS
Soloists - Piotr Kurek - World Speaks 
Ruyina - Katarina Gryvul - Tysha 
Ej okolo Levoči - Puszafalat - Nótázó recepteskönyv
Kyema Mimin - Choying Drolma And Steve Tibbetts
Hubava Milka - Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble
Sail on Sailor - Kristin Oppenheim - Night Run- Collected Sound Works 1992 - 1995
Nová Krajina - Adela Mede - How We Grow
Volanie - Jonáš Gruska - Spevy
Take Care of Others - Nina Pixel - Müggelsee Observations
face A ( best - nation - friendless ) - Oklou  
Afraid - Nelly Furtado - Loose

Somewhere #2 ~ Adela Mede

05 Couperin - Les Barricades Mysterieuses

04 Bach - Alle Menschen Müssen Sterben  BWV 643 2

Improvisation from on high, fraternising with elevated explorations of the grid (and momentarily providing a setting for a Derridean meditation on the former).

LYL Radio: Tanzen und Denken 13

from Martina Bertoni's forthcoming album "Hypnagogia", out on 20th january 2023 as LP / tape / DL

Hypnagogia

MARTINA BERTONI - Inversion

:zoviet*france: - Montag

Recorded live at Wave Gotik Treffen, Volkspalast Kantine, Leipzig, 29 May 2023

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Released as a free download (AIFF 16/44.1) 5 July 2023

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Moon Wheel — Maze Siren

Vladislav Delay - Rakka II
Format: LP/DGTL
Cat.No. CR14
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/3dLkry3

In 2020 Cosmo Rhythmatic released ‘Rakka,’ which presented Sasu Ripatti’s glorious return to his most famous alias: Vladislav Delay. Nonetheless, the album contents made it evident that this eventual comeback was not intended as a revival. Ripatti was reactivating the project and a steadfast evolution in its sound, a new approach to both the emotional and environmental characteristics of electronic composition.

The inspiration for this new course was given to Ripatti by a series of ventures into the wilderness of his native Finland, confronting “The raw, undefined, uncontrolled and uncorrupted power that exists within it.” The result is a hyperbolic, extreme ecosystem of sound populated by fast-moving drones, dense clouds on noise, and tectonic bass rumbles with hints of harmony birthed by harsh tonal contrasts. The sheer intensity of the music was only matched by the rigor of its craft.

2021 sees the coming of the second chapter in that very same journey. ‘Rakka II,’ once more on Cosmo Rhythmatic and made of that very same impassioned matter. Tho while on the first one, Ripatti seemed intent to portray the elemental forces as free, unabashed, and unconstrained by musical structures, here he appears to compile some of it in beats and progressions that have something in common with the wildest sides of dance music. It’s like consciousness tuning in with the non-human after struggling with its apparent distance and hostility, accepting its uncoded structures, and finally finding a common language for reconciliation.

As Ripatti puts it, Rakka II is a romantic summer vision full of hope and optimism;  after the brutalist vibes on the first one, the storm has passed and skies are clearing. 
Rakka II is ultimately another masterful achievement in an already stellar career and an unquiet blast of energy for chaotic times.

Vladislav Delay - Rakkn (CR14)

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