{"product_id":"starjunk-95-industrial-sunset-memories-colored-vinyl-lp-copy","title":"Lamin Fofana - Corps Perdu (Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRelease Date - \u003cspan class=\"aec-title-date\"\u003e10\/16\/2026\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\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\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 it's eruption, and let's 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\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn an interview published in Tropiques in 1945, Césaire spoke of poetry as a 'rupestral design in the stuff of sound'. That a stone can hold an image, and that this image may be of sound, that then becomes poetry, is a form of progression not foreign to Fofana's music, which likewise works through transmutation. Even when intricately rich with text, Fofana's Corps Perdu invites the listener into expansive and affective channels of sound, a powerful iteration within his open inquiry, which continues to resist any definitive or final form. The melodies travel as pollen, and across waking and dreaming states, like lullabies-with Césaire they create 'an unstunted reverie, it's memory pulmonic and it's heart in it's hand'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\"\u003e\u003cu\u003eTRACKS:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e To Become Liquid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e2\u003c\/span\u003e I Say River Corrosive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e3\u003c\/span\u003e Infinite Regress Into Futures Past\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e4\u003c\/span\u003e Ex-Voto for a Shipwreck\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e5\u003c\/span\u003e Postcards from the Wreck\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e6\u003c\/span\u003e Blank to Fill on the Visa of Pollen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e7\u003c\/span\u003e Corps Perdu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e8\u003c\/span\u003e Naissances\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e9\u003c\/span\u003e Lay of the Rover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e10\u003c\/span\u003e Ode to Guinea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow long will shipping take?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItem is In Stock\/Inbound\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItem is on Pre-Order\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItem is on Backorder\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrders will ship within 1 day of being available\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrders will ship near or on release date, as they are checked in\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrders will ship as they become available, and may take 2-12 weeks\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Lamin Fofana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48234019160222,"sku":"788362412524","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/8321\/8590\/files\/image_74d4e177-75f9-4d89-bfe0-8da563ec4899.jpg?v=1788487545","url":"https:\/\/soundslikevinyl.com\/products\/starjunk-95-industrial-sunset-memories-colored-vinyl-lp-copy","provider":"SoundsLikeVinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}