KMRU

Kin is finally out ! excited to share this music that has been quietly staying with me for a long time. grateful for everyone involved in this one ! utmost love.🫶🏿✨ EMEGO319 KMRU: Kin 2LP /CD / Digital Out today @editionsmego All tracks written, produced, mixed by KMRU Blurred co-written & produced with Christian Fennesz @_fennesz Mastered by Stefan Mathieu @studioschwebung Photography: Joseph Kamaru Layout & Design: Nik Void @nikcolkvoid Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin Distributed by Morr Music Distribution. - For Pita.

Playing some shows in the next coming months!
 Premiering a new live “As Nature” with @nickverstand and @mareikebo.de this weekend at Rewire! See you soon..more shows to be announced.. ~~~ 12.04. Rewire - The Hague + 18.04. Velvet - Düsseldorf 19.04. RoadBurn Festival,Tilburg 23.04. Volksbühne - Berlin 24.04. Bristol New Music - Bristol 27.04. Barbican Centre - London + + with Nick Verstand & Mareike Bode. design by @eegijlmoor777

Last week we traveled to Liguria with @_kamaru_ and @capturedbyodede for Near Silence, a project produced and curated by ALMARE exploring “quiet areas”, rural zones marked by low levels of noise pollution, spaces where the effects of the climate crisis can truly be heard. We explored the silent area of Parco Naturale Regionale del Beigua, and these images capture fragments of our days in residence there. Near Silence è un progetto prodotto e curato da ALMARE grazie al sostegno della @fondazionecompagniadisanpaolo nell’ambito del bando Starter, in partnership con @kilowatt.bo e in collaborazione con DENERG - @politecnicoditorino , @arpalagenzia e @arpavda , @nieuweinstituut e @ortobotanicotorino Photo credits - @muchomas.project @luca_vianello #kmru #research #fieldrecording #environment #artisticresidency

Sound artist KMRU and contemporary artist Nick Verstand premiered their audiovisual collaboration 'As Nature' at @rewirefestival . These soundscapes of @_kamaru_ are responded to by @nickverstand through a wafting spectacle of all-encompassing lightweight fabrics that are manipulated through airflow, LEDs, and smoke. An Olfactory component, developed in collaboration with scent artist @mareikebo.de , further extends the sensory field, expanding the work beyond the visual and auditory. A pleasant yet unusual olfactory layer introduces a subtle tension between nature and electricity into the space. 'As Nature' comes to life as a visceral and provoking glimpse into liminality offering a rare opportunity to encounter sound, vision and scent as a single, evolving environment shaped by natural processes and perception.⁠ ⁠ ‘As Nature' is commissioned by Rewire, Barbican, and Lunchmeat Festival.⁠ ⁠ More ‘As Nature’ dates:⁠ Barbican, Milton Court Concert Hall - 27 April⁠ Lunchmeat Festival, Prague - 25 September⁠ Biennale Musica, Venice - 22 October⁠ ⁠ Photo by @sabine.vnistelrooij and @alexheuvink

The fourth track on Free & Equal Vol.2 is ‘Space of Uncertainty’, composed by KMRU, who has also been part of our residency programme. For Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) a Nairobi-born Berlin-based sound artist, sound is a sensorial medium through which social, material and conceptual interpretations are manifested and contested in his works. KMRU carries with him a repository of listening experiences from Nairobi and beyond, expanding his sonic practices and bringing an awareness of surroundings through creative compositions, installations and performances. He has earned international acclaim from his performances in far-flung locales, establishing a definitive space within ambient experimental music

Near Silence è un progetto prodotto e curato da ALMARE che esplora le “quiet areas”: zone rurali caratterizzate da basso inquinamento acustico, spazi in cui ascoltare gli effetti della crisi climatica. Per questa residenza di ricerca abbiamo invitato KMRU, sound artist nato a Nairobi e residente a Berlino. KMRU affronta il tema dell’ecocidio attraverso una prospettiva basata sull’ascolto, integrando al field recording le interviste con gli abitanti dei territori osservati, in cui approfondisce racconti e miti legati al loro rapporto con gli ecosistemi. Durante la sua residenza indagherà l’area silenziosa del Parco del Beigua, basandosi sui dati scientifici raccolti da ARPA e DENERG del Politecnico di Torino. Accanto a lui, il fotografo e filmmaker di base a Nairobi Fred Odede, svilupperà un cortometraggio dedicato al progetto. Nelle prossime settimane condivideremo Near Silence giorno per giorno, accompagnando il racconto con immagini dalla residenza. Near Silence è un progetto prodotto e curato da ALMARE grazie al sostegno della @fondazionecompagniadisanpaolo nell’ambito del bando Starter, in partnership con @kilowatt.bo e in collaborazione con DENERG - @politecnicoditorino , @arpalagenzia e @arpavda , @nieuweinstituut and @ortobotanicotorino Photo credits: photos 1 and 3 by @glaucocanalis ; photos 2, 4, 5 by @_kamaru_

Mit "FOLDS (in tape fields)" des Künstlers KMRU startet am Donnerstag, den 16. April 2026, unser erstes Projekt im Rahmen unserer großartigen neuen Projektreihe „Kunsthalle unterwegs“. Für unser erstes Projekt freuen wir uns sehr über die Kooperation mit dem IMAI. Vom 16. April bis 6. Mai 2026 werden dabei künstlerische Arbeiten auf Screens und Lautsprechern im Düsseldorfer Stadtraum sichtbar und hörbar. Sie nehmen die vorhandenen Infrastrukturen in den Blick und eröffnen neue Perspektiven darauf, wie Wahrnehmung im öffentlichen Raum entsteht. Die Arbeit von KMRU entfaltet sich als vielschichtige Klanginstallation über die Stadt und lädt dazu ein, Düsseldorf in Bewegungen, Schleifen und fragmentierten Momenten neu zu hören. FOLDS I – IV im Überblick: – FOLDS I (16.04.–06.05.): Klanginstallation, Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf – FOLDS II (16.04.–06.05.): Klänge im öffentlichen Raum (u. a. Heinrich-Heine-Allee, UFA Palast, Salon des Amateurs) – FOLDS III (17.04., 16–17 Uhr): Radio Broadcast auf Callshop Radio – FOLDS IV (18.04., 21–22.30 Uhr): Live-Showcase im Velvet Weitere Informationen findet ihr auf unserer Website. Foto: © KMRU #KunsthalleDüsseldorf #KunsthalleUnterwegs #CirculatingCopies #KMRU #SoundArt #Stadtraum #ContemporaryArt

Exhibited a new work - ‘Float - A Wind of Time’ as part of Colomboscope, Srilanka. Float- a Wind of Time (2026) is a radiophonic sound work emerging from KMRU’s ongoing research on mangrove ecologies, archipelagos of the Indian Ocean and beyond… Here, the mangrove becomes both a metaphor and methodology, a porous frame for exploring the interdial rhythms of coastal ecologies where land and ocean continually negotiate time and human presence. Quadraphonic, net, scent and photographs. 2026 (colombo: 21 - 31 January 2026) commisioned by Colomboscope 2026.  Supported by Goethe-Inst Srilanka & TBA-21 Academy. @colomboscope @tba_21 @tba21academy - 🪾🍃🪾 Convening #1: Marine Intersections and Coastlines as Webs (Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 25–27, 2026). TBA21–Academy’s program The Current V: Ancestral Ocean, led by Natasha Ginwala, 2026–2028.

ALBUM SPOTLIGHT The editorial newsletter from C2C Festival. An in—depth look at the releases from this year’s C2C Festival artists, that are defining 2026. [Subscribe now to read] KMRU ‘Kin’ /by F. Birsa Alessandri /editing: Alberto Campo SIGN IN: LINK IN BIO ∎⁣ C2C FESTIVAL 2026 29 OCT ╱ 01 NOV TORINO ╱ EUROPA 25 YEARS OF

ALBUM SPOTLIGHT The editorial newsletter from C2C Festival. An in—depth look at the releases from this year’s C2C Festival artists, that are defining 2026. [Subscribe now to read] KMRU ‘Kin’ /by F. Birsa Alessandri /editing: Alberto Campo SIGN IN: LINK IN BIO ∎⁣ C2C FESTIVAL 2026 29 OCT ╱ 01 NOV TORINO ╱ EUROPA 25 YEARS OF

Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a Kenyan sound artist and experimental ambient musician, who’s currently based in Berlin. Over the past decade or so, across a constant stream of releases, concerts, collaborations and sonic research projects, he has built a singular practice of expanded and ‘activated’ listening, opening a space to consider and reflect on auditory environments beyond the norm - like on 2024’s ‘Natur’ (Touch) which soundscaped his home city Nairobi in personal and subtly political terms. His work crisscrosses field recording, improvisation, noise, ambient, machine learning, radio art and expansive hypnotic drones and he’s earned international acclaim for performances in far-flung locales, as well as curating the archives of his late grandfather, famous Kenyan musician Joseph Kamaru, the ‘King of Kikuyu Benga.’ @_kamaru_ ’s latest release ‘Kin’ just came out on @editionsmego , home of much-admired previous records like 2020’s ‘Peel’. As befits a record featuring Christian Fennesz, this is a finely tuned set of widescreen slow builders, their emotionally charged synth patterns and undulating loops seared with sheets of feedback and distortion. KMRU performs at @arnolfiniarts on Friday 24.04.26 Tickets via link in bio. Design: @fem.kecampbell Photo: Glauco Canalis

EMEGO319 KMRU: Kin 2LP /CD / Digital Out today and shipping! Kin is a trip that rewards close repeated listens as all the colours and textures, nuance and narratives unveil themselves. "A slow-burning triumph” BMW - Electronic Sound #134 Album track list 1. With Trees Where We Can See 03:18 2. Blurred (feat. Fennesz) 12:12 3. They Are Here 07:18 4. Maybe 09:08 5. We Are 03:30 6. By Absence 20:22 All tracks written, produced, mixed by Joseph Kamaru Blurred co-written & produced with Christian Fennesz @_fennesz Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering @studioschwebung Photography: Joseph Kamaru Layout & Design: Nik Void @nikcolkvoid Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin Photo KMRU: Palma Llopis