KMRU: Drawing Water (A Sunken Mall)

Though my sense is we were early in terms of domestic awareness of KMRU’s work, we certinaly weren’t there for this self-released debut!! We also don’t do digital, so how would we have even known? _Drawing Water_ was posted (?? Released??) online Nov 6, 2020. A Sunken Mall did a tape (another format we barely do) in early Sept 2023 and an expanded LP soon thereafter.

From the one-sheet:

“In November 2020, KMRU self-released Drawing Water. The release contained three supple works of porous resonance and intimate motion, giving way to a very heartfelt body of work that peers directly into the fabric of the everyday; gestures, movement, conversation, rendered graciously into waveform. Now, Vaagner is proud to present a special edition vinyl of Drawing Water via its A Sunken Mall imprint, with the original material spanning the first side of the record in remastered from.

For the second half of the record, the label has taped none other than Abul Mogard, who prepared a new piece by reworking various layers from KMRU's original compositions. This new 17-minute-long piece, tilted ‘Drawing Water On Matching Teal Surfaces’ is defined by a continuously cascading and deeply resounding solemnness, which, towards the work's concluding moments, gradually disperses through a subtle downpour of warm pads, delicately rippling through the fabric of the work, before gently dissolving into thin air.”

Another more recent archival addition to our end of year Team 2023!!