Temporary Stored II, by KMRU, Aho Ssan, Jessica Ekomane, Lamin Fofana, Nyokabi Kariũki, Bhavisha Panchia

Temporary Stored II

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

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

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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.

Special Thanks to:
Rémy Jadinon, Derek Debru, Daisuke Ishida, Jessica Ekomane, Marcus Gammel, Désiré Niamke, Lamin Fofana, Bhavisha Panchia,
Nyokabi Kariũki, Simon Scott, Joe Gilmore, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, UDK SoundS, Muzikfonds e.V, Royal Museum for Central Africa,
DEKKMMA, Ars Electronica 2023, The Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR), Morr Music, After, OFNOT

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released October 11, 2024

Mastered at SPS by Simon Scott
Layout & Design: Joe Gilmore
Text: Bhavisha Panchia

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