{"product_id":"lamin-fofana-corps-perdu-black-vinyl-lp-pre-order-16-10-26","title":"Lamin Fofana - Corps Perdu - Black Vinyl LP | Pre-Order 16.10.26","description":"\u003cp\u003eCorps Perdu emerges from Lamin Fofana’s ongoing practice of creating immersive and multisensory sound environments, informed and inspired by the historically rich texts of scholars and poets working in the tradition of Black Studies. The words of W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Dionne Brand, Fred Moten, Édouard Glissant, Suzanne Césaire and Aimé Césaire are transmuted and circulated as sound, offered to listeners through radio, live events, albums and installations. Fofana honours his sources with an audible historical awareness, yet his sounds always simultaneously open out into the turbulent uncertainties of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe music we hear on the album Corps Perdu was previewed within a series of collective reading and listening sessions carried out in Paris, Barcelona, Tunis and New York City, where voices from the audience read aloud fragments from a body of texts Fofana had selected. The spontaneous unfolding of close reading and listening, mixed live by Fofana in these collective listening experiences, speaks to the open-ended quality of Corps Perdu. The album, now published, is but one iteration of this ongoing inquiry into the relationship between sound and text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorps Perdu presents an introspective journey with no return, and as such is full of omens of all kinds. Across ten tracks Lamin Fofana creates a sibling or companion to the transformation he initiated in his previous album Works in Metal, building a narrative that takes us into Krakatoa prior to its eruption, and lets us listen to Césaire’s ‘flying seed dreaming very loudly’. The album’s track titles and narrative arc hum in and out and alongside Césaire’s poetry, mainly Césaire’s 1950 collection Corps Perdu, in which the ten poems are accompanied by engravings by Picasso merging fragments of bodies and plants—a collaboration that emerged from their first encounter two years earlier, at the Communist-led World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace, in Wroclaw, Poland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe music on Corps Perdu labours intuitive hand-held melodies through dense processing. There are many rhythms throughout, though these never surrender to the density of the dancefloor grooves we’ve heard Fofana craft on previous albums (think of the ‘Obscure Light’ pair from Works in Metal for example). Instead, Fofana gently releases the clenched hands Césaire’s Corps Perdu begins with: ‘Among me, from myself, to myself, outside any constellation, clenched in my hands only, the rare hiccup of an ultimate raving spasm, keep vibrating word’. The album carries through sound the scattering and liquid fragmentation that shape the desperate metamorphosis of a ‘lost body’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. To Become Liquid (06:10)\u003cbr\u003e\n2. I Say River Corrosive (06:00)\u003cbr\u003e\n3. Infinite Regress Into Futures Past (03:33)\u003cbr\u003e\n4. Ex-Voto for a Shipwreck (03:55)\u003cbr\u003e\n5. Postcards from the Wreck (03:33)\u003cbr\u003e\n6. Blank to Fill on the Visa of Pollen (04:05)\u003cbr\u003e\n7. Corps Perdu (15:35)\u003cbr\u003e\n8. Naissances (03:13)\u003cbr\u003e\n9. Lay of the Rover (03:10)\u003cbr\u003e\n10. 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