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Aho Ssan & Resina - Ego Death - LP
11/06/2025
Subtext
SUB063
Artist:
Aho Ssan, Resina
Label:
Subtext
Version Description:
180g Black Vinyl
Sound Carrier:
1LP
Barcode:
5060928190622
The seed of Ego Death was planted in 2020 during Weavings—a durational remote improvisation conceived and curated by Nicolás Jaar and the Unsound Festival team. This bold experiment brought together 12 musicians from around the world in real time via Zoom, and marked the first collaboration between Resina and Aho Ssan. Their intuitive musical synergy was immediate, revealing a shared vocabulary despite working with radically different tools and instruments. That moment became the beginning of an evolving creative partnership.
In 2021, Resina contributed to Rhizomes, Aho Ssan’s album inspired by the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari.
The duo later reunited for alive version of Weavings to wide critical acclaim, before premiering their collaborative project Ego Death at Unsound Kraków in 2022. Their debut album will be released via Berlin-based Subtext Recordings in early Summer of 2025.
Across the album’s eight chapters, a wordless narrative unfolds–one of dissolution and reassembly, revealing music’s profound capacity as a language of emotion, subjectivity, and spirituality. Their music brims with dark, cinematic intensity, stretching the tonality of the cello to its breaking point and exploring the textures left in its wake.
Crackling noise, field recordings, and expansive synthesis shape their compositions, bringing a dynamic and ever-shifting sonic terrain.
The transfer of consciousness from the human body to an electronic medium can be understood as a conversion of purely electrical impulses— signals originating in the brain and transmitted into another kind of electronic system, one that might be more accessible to others.
A familiar question arises: do we lose any kind of knowledge in that transformation? Or does the process actually open something up—allowing for a loosening of control over the creative flow, an invitation to surrender total authority, to embrace attentiveness and openness, and above all: to dissolve boundaries?
This may become especially meaningful when the act of creation is no longer solitary, and no longer only for oneself. In a world driven by serotonin and dopamine loops, demanding constant productivity and performance, stepping off the path of ego can feel like a relief—even a form of resilience, or spiritual resistance.
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