Absent Personae

by Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr.

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1.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite I 04:49	buy track
2.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite II 03:27	buy track
3.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite III 02:42	buy track
4.	Lost My Head (Ft. Embaci) 04:13	buy track
5.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite IV 03:46	buy track
6.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite V 02:13	buy track
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9.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite VII 04:00	buy track
10.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite VIII 04:55	buy track

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'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."

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released September 29, 2017

Mastered: Jeremy Cox
Artwork: Chris Boyd

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discography

Spirit Volume

Jun 2019
PURGE

Mar 2019
Nocebo

Feb 2019
The Wages of Being Black is Death

Sep 2018
Paraffin

Aug 2018
REMS

Jun 2018
Stars Have Eyes

Apr 2018
Raga

Mar 2018
Excerpt From An Atypical Brain Damage

Feb 2018
VA - Shine (Compilation for Puerto Rico)

Dec 2017
Nothing Is Real

Oct 2017
From The Womb + (Vision Edition|Remastered)

Oct 2017
GORILLA (Vision Edition|Remastered)

Oct 2017
Absent Personae

Sep 2017
Human Dust to Fertilize the Impotent Garden

Sep 2017
Human Dust to Fertilize the Impotent Garden (FULL STREAM)

Sep 2017
PTP-RIDD01 (Narc)

Jul 2017
FREE LUTANGU

May 2017
Spirit Said Yes! (Deluxe Edition)

Mar 2017
SAVAGE + (Vision Edition|Remastered)

Mar 2017
Verloren Remixes (Vinyl Digipack)

Mar 2017
CELL, Issue 05: ACAPELLA - Riot In Versace

Dec 2016
Verloren

Dec 2016
CELL, Issue 04: || FLORA - City God

Oct 2016
One Deep

Sep 2016
CELL, Issue 03: ssaliva - keys2diversion

Sep 2016
A Love Story 4 @deezius, neo, chuk, E, milkleaves, angel, ISIS, + every1else.... and most of all MY DAMN SELF

Aug 2016
CELL, Issue 02: Club Cacao - Vae Solis

Aug 2016
CHIMERA EP [PTPdigi03]

Jul 2016
Forces EP [PTP009]

Jun 2016
Savage Remix EP [PTPdigi02]

Jun 2016
CELL, Issue 01: Baby Blue - Void Gate / CELL 01 (Audio Codex)

Jun 2016
From The Womb EP [PTP008]

Apr 2016
Syn Stair [PTP007]

Mar 2016
Savage EP [PTP006]

Feb 2016
Shattered Dreams [PTP005]

Jan 2016
GORILLA [PTPdigi01]

Dec 2015
Body Horror II [PTP004]

Nov 2015
Ride Or Die EP [PTP002]

Feb 2015
Screwing Yourself To Live: A Chopped & Slowed Tribute To Black Sabbath

Nov 2012

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