KEMP, ALICE — 9 Dreams in Erotic Mourning

9 Dreams In Erotic Mourning is a deliberately confrontational work: violent, intimate and unresolved. Kemp moves between broken piano figures, psychoacoustic noise, sudden voids of silence and grotesque vocalisations, building pressure through moments of fear, grief and psychic rupture. Acts of physical aggression sit uncomfortably beside fragile melody, creating a sense of private ritual forced into public space.

By design, meaning remains elusive. The record behaves like a séance gone wrong — oblique, unsettling, and charged with body-horror intensity — aligning Kemp’s approach with artists such as Rudolf Eb.Er, Puce Mary, Sewer Election and Luc Ferrari.

Originally appearing as part of the On Corrosion anthology, the work also marked a milestone release for The Helen Scarsdale Agency, standing as one of the most uncompromising statements in Kemp’s catalogue.


https://alicekemp.bandcamp.com/album/9-dreams-in-erotic-mourning