KMRU - Temporary Stored II

"When KMRU accessed the sound archive of the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, it catalyzed 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 Kariuki, 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, channeling (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 throu