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FLORAS is the new album from katharsis founder jjjacob, releasing on May 21st to mark the five-year anniversary of the label’s first output. A celebration shaped by time, patience, and transformation, FLORAS is an assemblage of seven tracks - each with its history. The oldest dates back to 2018; the newest bloomed only months ago. Initially intended for other projects or collaborations that never fully took root, these compositions have been reworked, reimagined, and refined - transformed by years of quiet attention. Stylistically, the release moves between the physical and the introspective - crushed drumbreaks, poignant basslines, grand synth melodies, and obscure granular vocals.

Each track is like an ancient, fluorescent flower rediscovered in a distant cave, alien in form yet deeply familiar. Cyclical in structure, they mirror the seasonal processes: emerging, flourishing, decaying, returning. There’s a strange botanical logic at play, as patterns and shapes reappear like genetic echoes, and even discarded stems sprout new life. Melodic ideas and textural procedures reverberate across tracks like shared ancestral material, connecting them like a hidden underground network. Some tracks still bear traces of feedback or collaboration that never fully materialized - ghost limbs and branches that helped shape the whole.

Built from ambient textures, hard-hitting percussion, and sonic details that reward deep listening, FLORAS is a meditation on growth, time, and potential. The release reflects not only a shift in jjjacob’s personal process, but also a new chapter for katharsis itself: after five years of near-monthly releases, the label now turns toward a slower rhythm - giving each release more space to breathe, settle, and take root before moving on.

releases May 21, 2025

artworks & mastering by jjjacob

jjjacob - PLUCKA

Split CD-R with Marcus Whale out now via. Blue Void. Text by Gus McGrath @cbrfreewifi

1. Grasps - You Make It Look So Easy
2. Grasps - YMILSE (Afterimage)
3. Marcus Whale - Eye
4. Marcus Whale - Pit

Lyrics:

I could look into the past
steady open my eyes
Is this all there is
Is this all there is?
Take me by the hand
show me that there's more than gin & wine just to past the time
Can you force a life?
don't watch me die
when I cross the line
Skin porcelain

& give me your hand to hold
or take me by the throat
I got nowhere to go
Walkin' on my own

You make it look so easy
the mind takes, the body breaks weary
You make it look so easy
no more
I can't handle it

https://www.instagram.com/grasps_
https://instagram.com/marcuswhaleinlandsea
https://grasps.bandcamp.com
https://marcus-whale.bandcamp.com

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You Make It Look So Easy

Il sort
Et il part part-tout
Quand il bouge, bruit
Monte pour nous!
Les nuage avant (Ah/là)
Je me couche là

Hamlam - Loon (feat. ingemar)

Artwork by Erli Grünzweil
Cassette Design by Ronja-Elina Kappl

Written & Produced by Ronn Tan Hsien Han
Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis
Remixes by Quit Life, W.ANNA.W & xato

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Ryouko - Solstice (Quit Life Remix)

Forty-Seventh Cime show on @radio80000 w/ @kjjabber 

Artwork by www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky

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