Painful Enlightenment Jana Rush SKU: ZIQ428 Barcode: 5055869565752 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Planet Mu Released Date: 13th August 2021 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Chicago’s Jana Rush returns with “Painful Enlightenment”, an intense emotional rollercoaster of disfigured samples, quivering electronics and vagrant percussion. As implied by the title, the album is a document of her own personal growth through struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts, a glimpse into a dark period of her life amid learning the art of letting go. Her debut for Planet Mu is the follow-up to her twisted “Pariah” LP on Objects Limited. It’s euphonic and uplifting, even blissful, yet equally chilling, and at times a difficult listening experience. Jana says “This album is not a footwork album. It’s more like dark experimental listening music, an opportunity to be myself without judgement!” The album opens up with the pessimistic “Moanin’”, its gorgeous, blazing sax solo pulled back and forth like it was being played through a possessed tape recorder. Baneful bass pulsates over dozens of maniacal vocal samples on “Suicidal Ideation”, an absolutely mesmerizing collage of beauty and terror with a runtime of nine minutes. Moody guitar plucks cry over an intricate bed of micropercussion and erratic low-end blasts on the title track, one of the more sombre moments of the album. At the halfway mark, the record takes a dark, twisted turn, as “Disorientation” well, disorients, with its thick layers of untraceable alien sounds unfolding and contracting back into themselves. Thick layers of time-stretched textures and bewildering rhythms meet masterfully placed snares on “Intergalactic Battle”, featuring Teklife’s DJ Paypal. On “Drivin’ Me Insane”, Jana and collaborator Nancy Fortune stretch three words back and forth and inside-out over the course of three minutes, using every last gasp and sibilance possible. The album closes with Paypal making his second appearance. “Just a Taste” is an encore featuring many of the fundamental sonics that make up the LP, haunting horns and paranoid voices struggle to speak over fluctuating low-end harmonics. An established veteran from the world of ghetto house and juke who cut her teeth on Dance Mania records in the late nineties, Jana has the stripes, so to call her an outsider would be fictitious, yet she is a true unicorn within the history of that realm and becomes more and more alienated from formulas and trends on each new record she creates. “Painful Enlightenment” is full of dense, intricate abstractions, paired with rapidly moving structures and is unlikely to sound the same twice, as every listen exposes new layers of its vibrant, transcendental details. Artist Jana Rush Genre Electronica Label Planet Mu Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings A 01/ Moanin' 02/ Suicidal Ideation B 01/ Painful Enlightenment 02/ G-Spot 03/ Disturbed C 01/ Disorientation 02/ Mynd Fuc 03/ Intergalactic Battle (ft. DJ Paypal) D 01/ Drivin' Me Insane (ft. Nancy Fortune) 02/ 3 03/ Just A Taste (ft. 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