OFNOT Vinyl & CDs

Review: Introducing his own label OFNOT, acclaimed ambient artist KMRU presents an album which takes an inventive approach to the idea of environmental recordings. Having captured sounds from countless places encountered on his travels as an artist, he decided to explore the waveforms of these recordings and use them as a guide for his own synthesis. The source material is not present in the resulting album, but rather informs the movement of the sound, once again confirming KMRU's gift as a producer and offering a different way to think about sound and its relationship to place.

Review: When KMRU accessed the Royal Museum of Central Africa's sound archive, it inspired his last album Temporary Stored which engages with colonial sound archives. Temporary Stored II extends that superb concept by inviting artists like Aho Ssan, Lamin Fofana, Nyokabi Kari?ki, and Jessica Ekomane to critically explore these recordings of African traditions. The album reimagines these historical sounds as seeds for future sonic explorations that confront the colonial past while addressing contemporary political, economic, and ecological issues. It emphasises the importance of listening back to these archives to reclaim lost traditions and challenge existing knowledge systems rooted in anti-blackness.