{"title":"Other Power","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"angel-tape-1","title":"Angel Tape","description":"\u003cp\u003eIslaja presents her new album \u003cem\u003eAngel Tape\u003c\/em\u003e, the first release on the new Helsinki-based label Other Power. Drawing inspiration from childhood epiphanies while listening to an alleged recording of angels singing, Islaja has crafted an album that stands out as a major work in her expansive and celebrated catalogue, which includes previous releases on labels such as Ecstatic Peace!, Fonal and Svart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIslaja, aka Finnish artist Merja Kokkonen, describes her new album as a \"counterwork\" to her most recent albums, where the mode of composing was more song-based. This time around, she goes more in the direction of vast fields of sound where the human voice is a key ingredient of music that breaks free of strict stylistic guidelines and traditional song forms. Rough around the edges, atonal and otherworldly, \u003cem\u003eAngel Tape\u003c\/em\u003e is the result of a lifetime of inspiration from something beyond the immediate realm of our experience, an attempt to catch the elusive essence of musical otherness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tape she is referring to, a mid-80s church recording, was passed around in religious circles. Each time the tape was copied, it became slightly more distorted. It was believed that this recording of religious music had accidentally captured for the first time the voices of actual angels singing. The tape was rumoured to have originated in Kansas City and to have made its way to Finland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Other Power","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56320268534091,"sku":"R6289-7945","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_2d8e78ff-9d48-4ebc-8c32-0feb52f78812.jpg?v=1768603075"},{"product_id":"stupor-1","title":"Stupor","description":"\u003cp\u003eNairobi-born Berlin-based sound artist Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, shares his new work Stupor on the new Helsinki-based label Other Power. Commissioned by the Helsinki curatorial and commissioning agency PUBLICS, Stupor is comprised of three original long form tracks. The tracks on the album are speculative notes to social architectures and environments the artist has traversed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Bhavisha Panchia, a curator and researcher, writes in her liner notes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A musical alchemist, KMRU places his listeners' ear into a sonic-spatial matrix in which he transmutes his trans-local experience of place into elevated sonic dimensions that demand a kind of listening that you need to surrender to. If listening positions you inside an event – into a relational, social and cultural act that also positions us in the world – then listening to this album projects you inside an indeterminate unfolding, thick with tensions of movement and transitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artist's pursuit of sounding out and responding to the world is undertaken through a creative mode of listening, recording and production, in which his 'voice' reverberates in his compositional arrangements – that mediate, translate, imagine and re-encode. As he engages with the environments he encounters, KMRU 'renders sound negotiable, thinkable'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Other Power","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56320272630091,"sku":"R0635-0489","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_72038ae3-9d98-4755-ac36-42ea66291068.jpg?v=1768603312"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/other-power.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}