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New release: ABSENT PERSONAE

09/08/17 Live
by Nathan Jones

PTP are releasing Absent Personae, the sonic work produced in collaboration between Kepla, De Forrest Brown Junior and film maker Chris Boyd for the EVP Sessions. The release, on Vinyl and MP3, is on 29th September.
Watch the Promo video by Chris Boyd here

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from the PTP Website

ABSENT PERSONAE is a 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’ digital processing of found social media audio. The result is a psychopolitical meditation on Black America as a (de)territorialized subject.

Absent Personae was commissioned by Electronic Voice Phenomena as an interstitial spectre 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 Dérive 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.

Tracklist:
1. Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite I
2. Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite II
3. Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite III
4. Lost My Head (Feat. Embaci)
5. Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite IV
6. Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite V
7. Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite VI
8. Reflex And Bone Structure
9. Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite VII
10. Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite VIII
11. Absent Personae Postscript (vinyl edition bonus)
credits
releases September 29, 2017

Mastered: Jeremy Cox
Artwork: Chris Boyd