A-Sun Amissa - A New Precipice

Taken from the album Ruins Era - released February 9th 2024.
Drifting between brooding minimalism, creeping plumes of feedback and charred electronics Ruins Era clocks in at 70 minutes in length and is doubtlessly A-Sun Amissa’s most ambitious work to date.
The dense, layering of sounds offer hidden sonic details and the production here is clearly key. Favouring a gnarled, overdriven sound that feels on the edge of blowing out altogether, it develops into a truly unusual palette of noise that pushes into new territories. Hovering drones are interlaced with clarinet, guitar and piano motifs, distorted synths and rhythms creep in and out of consciousness while the album’s central movement; A New Precipice features vocals from Owen Jones of Gizeh labelmates and London post-metal-noise quartet Wren.
As with much of A-Sun Amissa’s output, it’s hard to pinpoint references and influences and throughout Ruins Era they prove to be as elusive and engrossing as ever.
CREDITS:
Richard Knox: guitars, synths, piano, electronics, fx
Luke Bhatia: guitars
Claire Knox: clarinet, vocals, synths
Owen Jones: vocals
Recorded, produced and mixed by Richard Knox at Cloud Blunt Moon, Glossop 2021-23
Mastered by James Plotkin
Video / Artwork by Richard Knox
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Great !

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a new fan from arctangent

[@andrewjohnfillery5954]

Same! I've been deep-diving into the back catalogue for the last two weeks and having a great time! (and, by the way, since it was bugging me that I wasn't sure how to say the name, I found Richard Knox on a podcast giving the pronunciation of A-Sun Amissa as /'eɪsʌn ə'mɪsə/)

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