OUW016 : Sarah Kokot / Se Souvenir

Art cover: detail of a work by André Prues (c) coll. Art et marges musée

Sarah Kokot is born in Belgium in 1984. As a child, she wanted to become a painter, or writer, or florist. With its sound capsules, it is a bit of all three at the same time ... Offering our senses, through sound and word, mental landscapes to dream and to feel.

Sarah - pic by Jeanne Bidlot

She produced her first sound capsules in 2016 during a radio creation workshop hosted by Marie Michiels and Miguel Allo. She then began to distribute them on a Soundcloud page which she called "Les petits ordres". The expression comes from entomology and designates the orders of insects less known to the general public.

In her sound poems, Sarah Kokot strives to magnify the insignificant, to stretch a furtive sensation, an absurd reflection into a space of astonishment that is both naive and disillusioned.

After "Minutes domestiques" (2019, see OUW001), "Se Souvenir" is her second album to be released on the "Off" label. For this project, she is inspired by six works from the collection of the Brussels museum of brut and outsider art, the Art et marges museum and slips, through sound, into what the fragile, the delicate, the enigma of these works leave him space to echo them.

From works by: Paul Duhem, Mohammed Targa, Antoine Mvumbi, Sylvain Cosijns, André Prues and Michel Dave.

Directed by Sarah Kokot, with the exception of "Le blanc de ton parfum": arrangements Sarah Kokot-Alinovsky and "We are advancing in time": text by Michel Dave.
Mastering: Pierre Vervloesem.
Cover: detail of a work by André Prues (c) coll. Art et marges musée
With the support of Art et marges musée and La Semaine du son.

Digital release on the 4th of September 2021.

Track listing:

1: Passé Empiétant