Very relaxing, ambient and peaceful, the new album ‘Looks Kinda Lunar’ by Gudjohr is excellent. Each track has been carefully crafted with great focus on detail and the album together is wonderfully layered. The electronic and post/ambient rock combination creates great vibes and wonderfuly mellow tones which wonderfully complement the soothing vocals. Gudjohr was formed as a solo roject by Kips Golden (Guitarist in Saint Elmo and Bassist in The Best of British Suicide) in 2012. Lets hope Kips continues to Keep it golden 😉 :
Karan Khurana
Karan Khurana ( Born in 1982, Mumbai, India) makes photos and mixed media artworks. By using popular themes such as pointlessness, old monuments and nightlife, Khurana creates intense personal moments by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His photos don’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
His works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of consumer-oriented superabundance and marketing.
His works often refer to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created.
Karan Khurana currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany!
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