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infinite shore

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

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
© & ℗ Subtext / Multiverse LTD 2022

subtextrecordings.net/

Vinyl & digital album

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence

helix

ignorant loop w/ noorj

Arriving on Twin System soon, label co-founder Nosewise features on upcoming tape 'Lurched Purple (ii)'. Continuing on from the first installment of the series 'Tendrils Lurched Purple In The Slush', this next chapter showcases an earthier, organic side to the label's output; just like 'Plasticity', which sludge-laden feel and dubbed-out sound design captures the feeling of this latest project. 

Nosewise's errantry in the void will be available amongst Dubplanet X, tobha, Officium, Sabla and Elijah Minnelli's contributions on Dec. 11, on a beautiful limited-edition frosty cassette.

https://twinsystem.bandcamp.com/album/lurched-purple-ii

@flytippa
@twinsystem

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Nosewise - Plasticity [Twin System]

Intersections

Kodama Forest

KICK THERAPY CLINIC | KTCS036

Label: KICK THERAPY CLINIC
Artists: KØRENA X CSMR
Title: Comfort of the Abyss
Catalog: KTCS036
Format: Digital
Mastering: KØRENA @korenaaa
Artwork: KAHAN @kahan_music

KØRENA SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/korenaaa
KØRENA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/korenaaa
KØRENA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7miU7JcfwHXQPjxO3xrMWt

CSMR SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/csmrofficial
CSMR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csmr.techno
CSMR Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4VGPesWjDhOeyfGPK3m7EC

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/kicktherapyclinic
Bandcamp: https://kicktherapyclinic.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kicktherapyclinic

FREE DL

KØRENA X CSMR - Comfort of the Abyss [KTCS036]

4 Uxxx

my contribution to the Berlin Atonal More Light Box Set series 

https://berlinatonal.bandcamp.com/album/berlin-atonal-more-light-1-5

https://berlinatonal.bandcamp.com/album/berlin-atonal-more-light-boxset

Digital available immediately and free with vinyl purchase, which ships in January ’21. 

@berlinatonal

circle (squishy mix)

Subtext Recordings is a Bristol founded / Berlin based label curated by james ginzburg.