Speaker Music - Of Desire, Longing - Vinyl Record

DeForrest Brown Jr.is an outspoken theorist, journalist, curator, visual artist and musician. Raised in the deep South, DeForrest moved to New York a few years ago and has been shaking things up IRL and online ever since. He asks difficult questions that make us relook at how we think about race, class, post-racial ideas, historical events and the social structures in America. His work defies narrow bags and he's truly a unique cultural polygot comfortable booking an artist like Felicia Atkinson at Issue Project Room or shaking up people on the street with his "Make Techno Black Again" hat line.His projectSpeaker Musicwas inspired byRhythmanalysis, a book of essays by urbanist philosopherHenri Lefebvreas well as considerations of momentum and the "chronopolitical"from British cultural theoristKodwo Eshun. Mobilizing freely improvised electronic percussion and stereophonic audio recordings,Speaker Musicyearns to caress, engineer and sculpt sentiment into a multi-textural rhythmic body, quivering moments into a collapsed "nonpulsed time."His debut for Planet Mu centers around weary sonic portraiture of sonorous and cybernetic energy music - a music encoded with an encrypted heat but made "with empathy and without excess." His "touching of frequencies" unveils a romantic abstraction of sonic narratives that recalls previous innovations by musicians such asLes McCann,Urban TribeandJames Stinson.01 With Empathy02 Without Excess