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Vinyl & digital album: 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
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Limen

Vinyl & digital album

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence

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Berlin-based label Post Hoc presents their eighth release, “Summer’s End Vol. 3”, featuring 8 young artists from various musical backgrounds. Forming the third edition of a soundtrack as the summer comes to a close, the compilation explores the combination of various sentiments: Of nostalgia, passion, and melancholy, a visceral passage traversing morning breezes and hazy nights. “Summer’s End Vol. 3” recollects a memory, paying tribute to a feeling that is no more, but is sure to return once again.

Buy via: https://post-hoc.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-summers-end-vol-3-ph008

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Premiere: Evitceles - I Want To Be Eternal [Post Hoc]

Premiere of the track "Get Out Of Me" by Donna Haringwey remixed by Swordsmith, taken from the upcoming remix album on Strange Therapy.
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Artist: @donnaharingwey
Track: "Get Out Of Me"
Remix by @sswordssmith
Album: "Exiting The Vampire Castle"
Label: @strangetherapy
Format: Digital
Release date: February 8,2024
Pre-order: https://donnaharingwey.bandcamp.com/album/exiting-the-vampire-castle

"Exiting the Vampire Castle is Donna Haringwey's Inside the Vampire's Castle' remix album. Death Qualia, Swordsmith, Qual, Iron Lang, Televangelist, KCVS, Slave to Society, The Undertaker's Tapes, and Donna Haringwey each selected a track or tracks and transformed it/them into a new piece. Listen to 'Exiting the Vampire Castle' by Mark Fisher here:
youtu.be/KpUtdnEkRIc?si=GHkKBaKccvtiaCu0 "

ALL THE MONEY INCOMING FROM DIGITAL SALES IS GOING TO https://dogsofportugal.com/
All tracks mixed by respective artists.
Mastered by Dan at Dadub Studio.
Monster by raseekat.
Layout by Wouter Oostveen.

Premiere: Donna Haringwey - Get Out Of Me (Swordsmith Remix)[ST020R]

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https://candelarising.bandcamp.com/album/elephant-road
Also featuring Eomac, Headless Horseman, Rrose, Kangding Ray, Arad and many more....
Dedicated to Amanda Moss. 
All proceeds go to Target Ovarian Cancer.

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out October 19, 2018
Portals Editions / XKatedral
Buy: https://bit.ly/2nYaW3F

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Full stream of @mariawhorn's haunting "Ave," a cut from her new album on @portals-editions.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/premiere-hear-a-haunting-ambient-track-from-maria-w-horn

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Premiere: Maria W Horn - Ave

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