Gentle beings, we are entering the world of the ambient, atmospheric, downtempo, and sublime. Transcend at your leisure. [cover Rachika Nayar]

Third State

Changes in Air

Labyrinth I

Stay, Nomad

Infant Lullaby

Tranquilizer

Angelic Ascent

Traversing The Etheric Plane (feat. The Juan Maclean & Gee Dee)

a liturgy for grief

tides

Never Give Up, Pt. 1: Puer Aeternus

Two Kites (All shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well)

Muted Forms

Form 9

ᵒ˶°´

attamyces spore (feat. N Kramer & J Foerster)

My Machines Sound Human

Angel Wings

I Created The Universe So That Life Could Create a Language So Complex, Just To Say How Much I Love You

Y Tu Mamá Ambient

Come What May

I Miss The Way You Swim

Chronicles of Loss

Silent Walk

Come Find Me

Editions Mego welcomes KMRU back to the fold. Kin is Kenyan born, Berlin based, sonic wizard Joseph Kamaru’s second release on Editions Mego, following on from the classic 2020 release Peel. Since the release and subsequent praise for Peel, the artist has been a staple on the electronic scene performing on numerous stages and festivals worldwide in tandem with a flood of media recognition. Kin could be construed as the second child following Peel. The project came out of initial discussions with Peter Rehberg about what a Peel sequel would sound like. Kamaru is quick to clarify that Kin is not that record; “I'll know when that record will come and when I'll make it. It's already happening... or maybe it lives within both of these Mego records”.

It is this deft ambiguity and vague tiptoeing around the concrete that encapsulates the ambiguous sound world of Kamaru’s vision.

Kin was started early 2021 in Nairobi with Kamaru exploring his noisier palette of sounds encompassing distortions reminiscent of the sounds he would muster from in his youth when playing guitar. He paused making this record for a year as soon as Peter died, then slowly returned to it through 2022 resulting in the immense new work we have here.

The charms within Kin lay as Easter eggs revealing the true identity behind the colourful sonics only after multiple deep listens. With Trees Where We Can See sets the tone by way of a warm swaying melody inviting the listener in for further investigation. In 2022 KMRU and Mego stalwart Fennesz toured the USA together resulting in a strong friendship and also, the second track here, Blurred. A neat Mego/Editions Mego loop as such. Blurred arranges twangy guitar strums alongside glistening glaciers of shimmering drones. They Are Here represents a darker hue as melancholic clouds of shadowy noir tap directly into the listener's nerve stream. Maybe takes a detour into a bristling euphoric electronic storm whilst We Are screeches in a pattern formation not unlike a highly abstracted Aphex Twin forcing its way out of a hard drive. By Absence concludes proceedings, operating as both exit music and a portal to further sonic investigation with acoustic bellowing residing amongst a kaleidoscopic backdrop.

Kin is a trip that rewards close repeated listens as all the colours and textures, nuance and narratives unveil themselves. This isn’t a record to be glossed over, magic rewards concentration.

Kin is a record to be Played slow and LOUD.

For Pita.

All tracks written, produced, mixed by Joseph Kamaru  
Blurred co-written & produced with Christian Fennesz  
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering  
Photography: Joseph Kamaru  
Layout & Design: Nik Void  
Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin

With Trees Where We Can See

KMRU 'With Trees Where We Can See' (EMEGO319)

Corner Of My Eye

You don’t have to read the press release for Rafael Anton Irisarri‘s latest opus, Points of Inaccessibility, to know all of its conveyed emotion. It’s already all there. That is the power of music when it’s delivered through the heart and mind by an amazing artist. Sure, there is an interesting background behind this work [and one which you can read on Bandcamp anyway], but for me, it doesn’t matter. When I listened to this album for the first time, I was immediately overwhelmed with its immersive poignant arc, and then I listened to it again, and again, and again… until the four pieces became not just the sounds for the story to be discovered later through these words, but they became the sounds for the story of my own, the one where words are not enough, the one that only speaks in music. This music touches something deeply personal, and then these words come out in abstract. But when you read them, you will know at least one thing: they have been written by a human. They have been triggered by a human. And when two humans speak without words, there is a true and genuine connection. One, which we can’t replace with a digital domain. And as we sink a little deeper every day into a world of artificial emotion, remember that you can return to music. Remember that this music is the key.


Points of Inaccessibility came from thinking about how disconnection feels in an age obsessed with connection. We are constantly online, constantly visible, yet we drift further apart. The real distance isn’t geographic anymore, it’s emotional. We mistake connectivity for community. The more we share, the less we seem to feel. This album is about that strange loneliness that hides inside constant communication, a loneliness that hums quietly beneath the surface of everything. The record isn’t nostalgic. It’s about the way the present is haunted by all the futures that never arrived. We live inside systems that promise connection but deliver repetition. Everything loops, nothing resolves.

— Rafael Anton Irisarri


The album is scheduled to be released on February 6th, 2026, via Irisarri’s own Black Knoll Editions. Preorder the beautifully mastered limited edition 12″ by Stephan Mathieu at his Schwebung Mastering, with a bleak yet stunning cover art by Jaco Schilp. Once again, you can grab the digital and vinyl versions directly from Irisarri’s Bandcamp. Don’t sleep on this one.

https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/album/points-of-inaccessibility

Points of Inaccessibility

Breaking the Unison

TRACK PREMIERE : Rafael Anton Irisarri - Breaking the Unison


Written, recorded and produced off grid in a solar-powered caravan the remote, Aussie outback “expansion a (south)" is the latest solo offering from Naarm/Melbourne-based vocalist, multi instrumentalist, sound healer and producer IKSRE (aka Phoebe Dubar). Gorgeous, evocative and intimate, an expansion of the body, mind and soul, this album traverses ambient, cinematic, experimental, dream pop and psychedelia and is quite unlike anything she has ever released before. Equal parts intimate travel journal and expansive, ambient journey; an aural adventure to some of the wildest places on earth.

From April to August 2025, IKSRE (Phoebe Dubar) and her husband and their eight-year old daughter packed up and hit the road to explore the road less travelled - westward from their home in Naarm/Melbourne to incredibly isolated, Western Australian coastline, and through the Northern Territory and Central Australian outback. They travelled 20,000km over a four-month period to some of the most untouched, pristine places left on earth. True wilderness.

Armed with a small selection of instruments - electric guitar (her first foray into the instrument), OP-1 field synth, SM58 microphone, two small singing bowls and a selection of guitar pedals - every song was written off grid in the confines of the family’s solar powered caravan after an awe inspiring moment. From swimming with whale sharks at Nyinggulu/Ningaloo, to listening to swimming in ancient gorges in Karijini National Park and crossing the vast, endless expanse of the Nullarbor plain, each track hints at these iconic places, captured in the moment in sound and accompanying photographs and video. A multi dimensional postcard from the wilderness.

Arguably her most intimate album, definitely her most raw - background noise left in and no post production after she returned home; vocals are far from perfect in places, and include clicks and background sounds from inside (and outside) the small space they called home for months. It also includes field recordings collected in some of these places.

expansion a (south) documents the first half of the journey from home in Naarm/Melbourne, far across the vast Nullarbor plain to the wild, southern coastline of Western Australia - from Esperance, all the way up to Karijini National Park.


5. IKSRE - lake cave (last winter's rain)

Azimuth Divergence

Ask The Rain

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