KMRU / Various Artists // Temporary Stored II 2xLP

ケニア出身ドイツ在住のアンビエント作家KMRUが、2024年10月にドイツ・ベルリンの実験レーベルOFNOTからリリースした2枚組レコードです。

コラージュ・アンビエント〜ドローン11曲を収録。ゲートフォルド仕様です。

以下、レーベルによる解説です。

"KMRUがベルギーのテュルヴレンにある中央アフリカ王立博物館のサウンド・アーカイブにアクセスしたとき、それはアルバム『Temporary Stored』という形で聴覚的な反応を引き起こした。このアルバムは、植民地時代の（サウンド）アーカイブの集合的な継承を見直すために、聴き返すものである。Temporary Stored IIは、オリジナル・アルバムの芸術的・学芸的延長として、アフリカの歌、伝統、慣習を録音したミュージアム・アーカイブに批評的な耳を傾けるよう、他のアーティストを招いている。KMRUでは、Aho Ssan、Lamin Fofana、Nyokabi Kariũki、Jessica Ekomaneが、環境的、経済的、政治的に流動的な世界をナビゲートするグローバル・コンテンポラリーとしてのリスニング体験をもとに作品を制作する。各アーティストは、音の断片のセレクションを休眠状態から解き放ち、現代の文化的、政治的パラダイムに（中略）聴こえる痕跡を注ぎ込む。"

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2 x 12" black vinyl in gatefold sleeve.

Tracklist:

1. KMRU - MR0 03:01
2. KMRU - MR1 04:15
3. KMRU - MR2 04:57
4. KMRU - MR3 03:59
5. KMRU - MR4 04:01
6. KMRU - MR5 04:05
7. Lamin Fofana - Intimacies of Affliction 05:00
8. KMRU - Entangled 04:34
9. Nyokabi Kariũki - Item no. ______ 04:43
10. Jessica Ekomane - MR.2023.9.5-A3 03:11
11. Aho Ssan - They Heard Us 05:50

OFNOT:

"When KMRU accessed the sound archive of the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, it catalysed an auditory response in the form of the album Temporary Stored. The album listened back to listen forward – to reckon with the collective inheritance of colonial (sound) archives. Temporary Stored II serves as an artistic and curatorial extension of the original album, inviting other artists to lend their critical ear to museum archives holding recordings of African songs, traditions and practices. With KMRU, Aho Ssan, Lamin Fofana, Nyokabi Kariũki and Jessica Ekomane draw upon their listening experiences as global contemporaries navigating a world in flux – ecologically, economically, and politically. Each artist brings a selection of sonic fragments out of dormancy, channelling (in)audible traces into a contemporary cultural and political paradigm.

Temporary Stored II sensitively responds to historical archives whose sounds have been restored and made more accessible through digitalisation, despite still being the copyrighted property of European institutions. It develops an emergent language to engage with the vocal, rhythmic and syllabic intelligence rooted in these sonic repertoires, grounded in reimagination of sonic records as seeds for a sounding future. Listening back to these recordings is one way to recover the loss of listening traditions, orality and modes of transmission. In these sonic mediations, Lamin Fofana, KMRU, Jessica Ekomane, Nyokabi Kariũki and Aho Ssan account for the archives with care and criticality.

Inscribed in this album are “black waveforms as rebellious enthusiasms”, which in the words of Katherine McKittrick “affirm, through cognitive schemas, modes of being human that refuse antiblackness while restructuring our existing system of knowledge.” The album asks us to listen to colonial pasts and imagine the sound of our epistemological futures. It is a sonic retort; a playback to history and its colonial processes of extraction and accumulation. Temporary Stored II is a reminder that the labour of listening back is a continuous process of reassessing what has been lost, captured and refused."

Artist : KMRU, Aho Ssan, Jessica Ekomane, Lamin Fofana, Nyokabi Kariũki, Bhavisha Panchia

Label : OFNOT