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Gestures of Perception

by Khôra

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    Pre-order of Gestures of Perception. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases April 19, 2024

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    - Printed artwork on reverse-board inner & outer sleeves
    - Pressed on 180g Vinyl
    - Includes DL card

    Shipments include a tracking number.

    Includes digital pre-order of Gestures of Perception. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around April 19, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $32 USD or more 

     

  • Book/Magazine

    Limited edition work of poetic mythography with text and images

    - 48 pages, 13.9cm x 21.6cm
    - Printed on 216 gsm paper
    - Perfect bound
    shipping out on or around April 19, 2024
    edition of 100 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $10 USD or more 

     

1.
Golden Femur 05:22
2.
Flux and Hieroglyph
3.
Rigpa
4.
Hermetic Salt
5.
Ligature Of Mineral
6.
Chöd
7.
In Petrified Light
8.
9.
Zep Tepi
10.
Sign Of Origin
11.
Echemythia
12.
Liberation Through Hearing
13.
The Empty Room
14.
Axis Mundi

about

Khôra is the medium Matthew Ramolo uses to delve deeply into initiatory world-building by way of sound, image, and lyrical prose. Figuring wholly realized art-myths which distill and rouse the numinous while provoking the visceral and cathartic, Khôra intricately collages studio documents of ritualized instrumental performances, introducing overdubs by transient, heteronymic personae which dismantle stable points of reference in the music and open uncommon planes of consciousness.

"Gestures of Perception" is Khôra’s first double album with a supporting artbook and features a fascinating array of sources subjected to patterned assembly, poetic layering, and the elevations of the heart. Deft handling of modular synthesis is palpably central, while feedback, erhu, keys, flute, contact electronics, guitar, field sounds, and various percussion objects (rattle and frame drums, seed pod sticks, random metal objects, meditation bowls, kalimbas, bells) all serve to provide breathing structures and energetic contours that guide and scaffold inner and outer journeys into the far-near. Prominent across the record's span is a home-built, solenoid drum machine, responsible for the alive and askew techno-archaic flows and conceived as the album’s "rhythm seed”. The music on Gestures is teeming with organic and alien textures, soaring drones, inter-dimensional noises, and emotionally resonant melodies; balanced on the fringes of exotica and meditative trance, with capacities that untether the listener from the ballast of limited reality.

Operating hermetically in the penumbra of Toronto's cultural scene for well over a decade, Khôra has been invested in self-publishing handcrafted editions of spiritually driven recordings which led to the LP/CD reissue of inaugural album "Silent Your Body Is Endless" by Constellation. Khôra has toured extensively in North America and Europe both solo and in collaboration with Picastro, Nick Kuepfer (Hrsta,1/4 Tonne), and Brandon Valdivia (Mas Aya, Lido Pimienta), generated over a hundred hours of unreleased, bewildering drone through durational performance with experimental outfit Nidus (Marc Couroux, Jason Doell), composed for live dance and independent film, been commissioned by MaerzMusik, and seeded and co-run the now defunct music and art venue Ratio in Toronto.

Gestures of Perception will be released on April 19 digitally and as a double vinyl featuring a limited edition 48-page work of researched, poetic mythography rich with galvanizing text and images that shed light on some of the mandalic imaginings and esoteric threads informing Ramolo's inner worlds as Khôra. Made with struggle and love in close collaboration with Marionette.

Recorded by Khôra
Mixed by Khôra and Matt Smith
Mastered and cut by Noel Summerville
Artwork by Jon Joanis

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releases April 19, 2024

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Khôra Toronto, Ontario

parade of masks, transducer of vibratory geometries, extempore aural revelations, muted ecstasies, stalker of thresholds, scribe of a body exultant in the sound of its unfolding, iota amidst the vast

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