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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Timesaver

Xen Model - Local Group [MK PREMIERE]

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Oil Slicks (Song For The Spirals)

stay inside

interna fiores w/ more ease

ignorant loop w/ noorj

This set was recorded live during dawn's and bamboo show's mini tour, Hajj B2B erevan dj, two sarcastic anti hero of the french riviera.

3XL - wish u
SOFIE BIRCH & ANTONINA NOWACKA - Morning Room II
CLAIR X - Legacy
KEISKA - Silhouettes edit
ADAM BOSARGE - bend toward the light.
DEENO - Silencio
AGE REFORM - Hybrid Fruit
MINAIS B - Abra Said No ft. Nature Boy
VEGYN - Everything Is The Same
VAL CLIPP - Hand gestures ft. VOICE ACTOR
VOICE ACTOR + YARROW.CO - u projected (defkon bootleg)
ARCHETYPE - Minute After Minute
GIANT ROBOT - Dub Controls
ICEBOY VIOLET & NUEEN - Closer
TIRZAH - Tectonic
RAINY MILLER - Maybe It's Time to Lay Down the Arms (feat. Mica Levi)

SOUFFRANCE FM #54 : HAJJ & EREVAN DJ (WE MIXED WITH 2 HEADPHONES SO WE DIDN'T HAVE TO TALK)

True

Berlin-based drummer and producer Max von der Goltz presents his new 5-track tape-recorded ambient EP 'From a Distance' on the label.

The project translates everyday moments and habits into simplified, yet powerful compositions of analogue synthesisers and piano recordings.

Artwork by Ronja-Elina Kappl
Written, produced & mixed by Max von der Goltz
Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

From a Distance

Max von der Goltz - 2pm

landscape

veins

Each leaf shimmered with runes that whispered forgotten incantations to those who dared listen

godtree

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