Title: Absent Personae Artist: Kepla & Brown, Deforrest Label: Purple Tape Pedigree Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 5055300395078 Genre: Electronic Release Date: 2017-11-10 Number of Discs: 1
Collaboration between Liverpool-based sound artist, Jon Davies, aka Kepla, and New York-based media theorist and music writer, DeForrest Brown Jr. Following in the style of verbatim theater, Brown - through private recordings in various urban public environments - recalls a palpable, though unseen trauma while wading amidst Davies's digital processing of found social media audio. The result is a psycho-political meditation on Black America as a (de)territorialized subject. Absent Personae was commissioned by Electronic Voice Phenomena as an interstitial specter in transition, resonating with the sinister politics of pseudo-science histories, while speculating on identity as evasion and persona without orientation. The piece is a post-industrial Derive considering the psychological liminal zones between old and new industry and urbanity, the changing landscapes of labor: a fractured genealogical memory trace obscured by intercepted signals and the liquidating flux of late capitalism. "Lost My Head" features Embaci.
Tracks: 1.1 Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite I 1.2 Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite II 1.3 Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite III 1.4 Lost My Head (Feat. Embaci) 1.5 Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite IV 1.6 Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite V 1.7 Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite VI 1.8 Reflex and Bone Structure 1.9 Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite VII 1.10 Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite VIII 1.11 Absent Personae Postscript
