| Details / Tracklist: |
1. BORGA
2. MENTOR
3. JUDGEMENT (FEAT. OKWUI OKPOKWASILI)
4. PRINCIPALITIES I
5. FRUIT BAT
6. LIFTED
7. PRINCIPALITIES II
8. AGNATE
9. LIBATE
10. BONES |
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| Number of discs: |
1 |
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| Description: | Okokon returns to Other People with his sophomore album, 'Offering', delving deeper into the lush
and cinematic soundscapes he first explored on his debut album, 'Turkson Side'. While primarily
working in visual arts, Africanus Okokon, who records under his surname, bridges his artistic practices
in 'Offering', using his masterful collage techniques to create his most personal work yet. Defying easy
categorization, the album melds influences from dream pop, avant-garde folk, psychedelia, trip hop,
and dub, with traces of field recordings seamlessly blended throughout to form a cohesive whole.
'Offering' sees Okokon confronting and negotiating a sudden and unexplained death that occurred in
his childhood and the complex emotions left in its aftermath, acting as his main inspiration when
making the album. This ambiguity is something that permeates throughout, with Okokon wanting to
explore the ambivalence and sometimes uneasiness of contradicting emotions appearing
simultaneously, alluded to in the album title. This is also reflected in how the album tracks each inhabit
different narrators with varying perspectives on the same events. The result being a hauntingly
beautiful album, with recurring themes of death, growth, sacrifice and spirituality ever present. - |
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| Manufacturer No.: |
OP080 |
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WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
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