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Come Beautify The Night by interdisciplinary artist and musician Otis Mensah combines avant-garde musical-form with traditional elements of rap-flow & cadence, reflecting on the body as landscape across seven movements. The album marks a seminal evolution as Otis' compositional debut, with an abstractionist approach to sound and form that obscures the borders between self and place. Beginning inception in the North of England and drawing to a close in Berlin, the colliding dark / light textures and tonal shifts of Come Beautify The Night inhabit the nature of transition and the rewriting home - teetering between rurality to metropolarity.
Tracklist
1 (A1). the night was wet and enduring (feat. LIE NING)
2 (A2). a fire named homecoming (feat. Adebola Oyekanmi)
3 (A3). blue legged exodus (feat. Savanna Morgan, Alexander Cromer)
4 (A4). they can't colonise the spirit (feat. Adebola Oyekanmi)
5 (B1). orisons of the body that soared (feat. Marysia Osu, Hamza Mohammed Beg)
6 (B2). black requiem of burnt lips (feat. Marysia Osu)
7 (B3). prayerhands and headnods (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow)