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Does It Really Matter

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

This song is called The Dawn of Everything.

It was born between unlearning the past and watching the future unfold.

It is dedicated to the people of Iran and their bravery in rising up after the murder of Jina Amini.

A song for the tremors that rise when a new life starts to feel possible against all odds — Jin Jiyan Azadi.

All proceeds from sales will be donated to an organisation called Human Rights In Iran - persian.iranhumanrights.org

(Instagram: @humanrightsiniran and their english page @centerforhumanrights)
lyrics
There is a trail
At the beginning
At the dawn of everything

A long lonely time
Under the dust of combat
Life itself is in exile

There is a trail
At the beginning
At the dawn of everything

There's a lone whistler
And others you can't see

She summons them
They pour down from the mountain

Oh the wind the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come

There is a trail
At the beginning
At the dawn of everything
credits
releases November 4, 2022
Written by: Lafawndah & Cecile Believe
Additional vocals by: Cecile Believe
Produced by: Happa
Additional production, recording and mixing by: Nightfeelings
Mastered by: Enyang Urbiks
Artwork by : Mamali Shahafi

The title of the song is inspired by David Graeber and David Wengrow's book The Dawn of everything.

Thank you to Etopia and Santiago Latorre for making this all possible.

The Dawn Of Everything (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi)

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debuted lived at NYFW Chromat AW17 Buoyancy Collection
premiered on thump  2/13/2017: https://thump.vice.com/en_us/track/dj-haram-chromat-fashion-show-mix

mixed & recorded by Dj Haram in Philadelphia 2017

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JEROME Mixfile #350-Fatma Pneumonia

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JEROME Mixfile #350-Fatma Pneumonia

bod [包家巷] 
The Recurrence Of Infections [复发感染] w/Flora Yin-Wong & M.D. James remixes
DN014
Format: digital album
Release Date: 7 December 2018
Pre order: https://bit.ly/2JLszOm

Nicholas Zhu’s previous efforts as bod [包家巷] saw them folding context both online and off into palpable concepts like MoVA (Museum of Virtual Art) as well as sound pieces Advent of the Silicon Rain [硅雨来临] and Limpid Fear [清澈恐惧], released through Quantum Natives and KNIVES, respectively. Zhu’s music is primarily constructed through piano and voice, “performed” through active manipulation of a MIDI instruments and vocal recordings overlaid and situated in field recordings and soundtrack rips. The resulting world created reads as documentations or meta-considerations of the present moment, measurements of the experience of life through technologically informed sound design.

The latest bod [包家巷] work, entitled The Recurrence Of Infections [复发感染], is an elliptically sweet yet unsettling audio piece that conceptualizes a state of mind in “the quiet hours of laborious coping that fall into the areas between work and sleep.” It comes with additional sound and video supplements that "are components of the larger, continuous work that is living." The title refers to a series of health issues that they had while living in Los Angeles. 

Zhu has stated in previous interviews that their practice in music is distinct from their art, citing “socioeconomic precarity” as a driving force behind their work. “I put my studio practice on hold specifically to work on music (for efficacy, music allows me to engage with people in a way that art can’t) knowing that meaning doesn’t translate, even when literally transcribed.”

The spacious desolation and emotional surges that are felt in the sound piece aren’t intended to impart meaning as much as expressing an affect, specifically attuned to the darker moments in one’s life when they are self-loathing, lost in unease and intense fear. The work varies from calm and polymorphous soundscapes to maximal onslaughts of noise and harmonies, each section stitched to the next as nonlinear, anecdotal chapters in a story of personal experience.

@baojiaxiang

bod [包家巷] - Excerpt from The Recurrence Of Infections [复发感染] (DN014)

8TH GRADE (GF CONSIDERATION EDIT)

Fierce

Out now on Fade to Mind: 
http://fadetomind.net/music/eps/fatima-al-qadiri-desert-strike/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/desert-strike-ep/id568963891

Fatima Al Qadiri - Desert Strike

@swanmeat and @dj-heroin are house of suns.

pre-order our debut ep:
http://houseofsuns.bandcamp.com

WANE

7-15-13 (Orchestral Version)

HEAVEN (LUXURY = DEATH), read by Colin Self, is a chapter from Nemesis's likely-never-to-be-released architectural essay "SPACE". 

The audio piece is about Heaven as the sum total of assumptions about luxury, comfort, predictability and risk. (Not the Judeo-Christian “place.”) We contend that true luxury is the freedom from all desire, which is only possible when you’re already dead. For this reason: LUXURY = DEATH. (This thinking is drawn from our ongoing writing project on the real and imaginary architectural spaces in our research, which might culminate in the first Nemesis book, “SPACE”). 

Originally released as part of the Architecture Effects show at the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2018.

HEAVEN (LUXURY = DEATH)

entirely written, produced, composed and performed by lotic
cover art : philip primus
mixing : jason agel
mastering : matt colton

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This is the Music of Star Amerasu
formerly- Ah-Mer-Ah-Su
composer, producer, DJ
booking: bookmissstar@gmail.com

22 . Dancer. Choreographer. Rapper. Writer 
YEP I DO IT ALL !!!!!

7-15-13 (Orchestral Version)

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