Bleep

Coming in hot on the tail of his Editions Mego debut Peel, Nairobi born and Berlin-based ambient creator Joseph Kamaru aka KMRU signs to Injazero to tell the story of the old days, back when he was still self-releasing his richly textural washes of sound. Giving the lie to the dominance of Westerners in the global ambient circuit — as well as the erroneous term ‘fourth world’ — Kamaru’s Logue offers a compendium of beautiful antiphony between glimmering electronics and field recordings from his native Kenya and the surrounding East African countries. Bilious drones and simmering arps add a certain poignancy — and menace — to the innocuous chatter of everyday life.