KMRU & Aho Ssan performing Limen

KMRU & Aho Ssan performing Limen

In 2021, Kenyan sound artist Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) and French digital alchemist Niamké Désiré (Aho Ssan), were invited by Berlin Atonal to collaborate on a project for the festival's Metabolic Rift edition. The outcome was 'Limen' - Kamaru and Désiré's emotionally charged sonic inspection of our pandemic-fueled, shifting world. Of 'Ruined Abstractions', the first track the duo recorded, Désiré said 'I never made something so extreme'. The sprawling composition, weighed down by dense low-end drones, fractal digital fuzz, and smokestack bruit, is the right ambience-setter for the pair’s seismic 2022 debut, now turned to the stage.

Photography by Christopher Bouchard

Venue: TivoliVredenburg

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