Temperature טמפרטורה by Afor Gashum אפור גשום

Temperature is Afor Gashum’s fifth album.
Compared with the lush sound of the band’s previous releases, the new album offers a more pared down, modest and frugal sound, as if trying to reduce its footprint in a world of excess, power and domination. Yet the edginess, and ardor that spark the music often catch fire and erupt in a shimmering din.
In addition to its familiar influences of post-punk, shoegaze and noise, this time the band also takes inspiration from free jazz – in particular its use of sound clusters and its treatment of sound as volatile matter, along with the spiritual-philosophical and radical-political dimension that these bring with them.
At a time when the struggle for justice and equality for all feels more urgent than ever, Temperature sets out to explore unstable harmonic territories, possible science-fictional worlds and transformative emotions, in a bid to imagine a different future – more interconnected, responsible, equal and just.

Afor Gashum is a leftfield post-shoegaze/ post-punk band based in Tel Aviv

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