Katele Musonda
a copper smelting town in Zambia's Copperbelt
Katele Musonda has spent her life in the copper-smelting region of Zambia's Copperbelt, where the air is thick with soot and memories pile up like receipts. As a mortuary technician in the bustling town of Chingola, her day starts in the pre-dawn silence, organizing paperwork and preparing the departed with quiet reverence. It's in these still, stern moments that she finds solace, seeing beauty in the unspoken and order amidst chaos, using music as an outlet to navigate the profound silences that follow her through each day.
About
Obsession
The texture of silence between breaths
Voice
Whisper in a cavern
Genre
Industrial Ambient
Instrumentation
Field recordings from mortuary echoes, recycled percussion from copper tools, layered whispers
Vocal Style
Breathy, intimate murmurs; a spectral presence
Production Style
On the move, recorded on a handheld device in echoey mortuary halls and bustling copper town streets
Influences
The copper-smelting townscape, forgotten receipts, hushed family farewells
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