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"Désiré Niamké, known to the avant-garde pantheon as Aho Ssan, stands as a titanic force at the nexus of experimental electronic music, sonic architecture, and contemporary composition. Over the past decade, the Paris-based visionary has dismantled and reconstructed the boundaries of sound, cementing his reputation with seminal works such as the harrowing Simulacrum (Subtext, 2020), the collaborative odyssey Limen with KMRU, and the sprawling, star-studded magnum opus Rhizomes (Other People, 2023), which features the incendiary talents of Moor Mother, Angel Bat Dawid, and clipping. His trajectory is a relentless ascent, marked by command performances at the hallowed halls of Lincoln Center, the Muziekgebouw, and the cutting-edge stages of Atonal Berlin, CTM, and Sonic Acts. His latest masterwork, The Sun Turned Black, is an evocative, visceral exploration of ancestry and atmosphere. Commissioned by the prestigious Maison de la Radio for the Hyperweekend festival, the album germinated from field recordings captured within the vibrant, rhythmic heart of Ghana -- Aho Ssan's ancestral cradle. By daringly exorcising all percussive artifice, the artist constructs a breathtaking sonic tapestry, defined by a transcendent dialogue with the internationally acclaimed violinist ASIA. This project occupies a rarefied, ethereal space where ambient introspection collides with the raw intensity of noise and the intricate precision of electroacoustic composition. Coproduced by the esteemed Subtext Recordings, The Sun Turned Black is not merely an album; it is a monumental, genre-defying statement that echoes through the corridors of modern sound, asserting Aho Ssan's position as a singular, epoch-defining composer."
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Aho Ssan debuts on Other People with second solo album (only supplied as DL code) and book Rhizomes, featuring Nicolás Jaar, Moor Mother, Angel Bat Dawid, clipping., Blackhaine and more. Paris based composer Aho Ssan, the artist moniker of Niamké Désiré, presents his new full-length Rhizomes following his debut LP Simulacrum (2020) and collaborative record Limen (2022) with fellow musician KMRU. Rhizomes draws inspiration from a concept coined and developed between Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri. The idea of an ever-evolving structural model, constantly in motion and spreading out in all directions at once. It has no beginning and no end, but always remains in a middle, through which it grows and overflows. Much like the name it borrows, Aho Ssan's Rhizomes is a multimedia project that embarks on a myriad of disparate, unique musical and artistic partnerships. This piece adapts this concept to explore the influence of sound materials on creation, the appropriation of a sound object, and the collaborative nature of a composition that responds to modernity. Aho Ssan collaborated with a comprehensive cast of artists to create a musical rhizome including Nyokabi Kariuki, Josefa Ntjam, Blackhaine, Nicolás Jaar, Resina, Rắn Cạp Đuôi, Richie Culver, clipping., Lafawndah, 9T Antiope, James Ginzburg, Exzald S, Valentina Magaletti, Moor Mother, Angel Bat Dawid and Mondkopf. Cooperation and community are at the root of this project and the lens through which all the compositions can be understood through.
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