The story
Joseph Kamaru, better known as KMRU, is an ambient musician. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and later relocated to Berlin, Germany.
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Records
Albums 19
- crop
crop4 Sep 2026Vinyl
- Kin
Kin13 Feb 2026Vinyl - forge
forge22 Oct 2024Vinyl - Temporary Stored II
Temporary Stored II11 Oct 2024Vinyl - Natur
Natur26 Jul 2024Vinyl - Disconnect
Disconnect14 Jun 2024Vinyl - glim
glim3 Mar 2023Vinyl
- epoch
epoch25 Oct 2022Vinyl - Temporary Stored
Temporary Stored15 Jul 2022Vinyl
- Limen
Limen28 Apr 2022Vinyl - Rapture to Rupt
Rapture to Rupt1 Dec 2021Vinyl
- Peripheral
Peripheral1 Oct 2021Vinyl
- Place: Nairobi
Place: Nairobi23 Sep 2021Vinyl - DIALOGUE
DIALOGUE25 Jun 2021Vinyl
- Logue
Logue14 May 2021Vinyl - Jar
Jar15 Sep 2020Vinyl - Peel
Peel23 Jul 2020Vinyl - Opaquer
Opaquer17 Jul 2020Vinyl - Saal
Saal2020Vinyl
EPs 10
- ENEO
ENEO2 Oct 2026 · EPVinyl - Collaborations III
Collaborations III5 Jun 2026 · EPVinyl - Otherness
Otherness4 Dec 2024 · EPVinyl - Dissolution Grip
Dissolution Grip29 Sep 2023 · EPVinyl - Windbags/Lune
Windbags/Lune2 Jun 2023 · EPVinyl - as it still is
as it still is6 Aug 2021 · EPVinyl
- Drawing Water
Drawing Water6 Nov 2020 · EPVinyl - Odra
Odra3 Jul 2020 · EPVinyl
- Erased
Erased19 Mar 2019 · EPVinyl - EAST
EAST12 May 2017 · EPVinyl
Singles 26
- Junipers by the Glacier Lake (KMRU Version)
Junipers by the Glacier Lake (KMRU Version)13 Jan 2026 · SingleVinyl - Displacement (KMRU rework)
Displacement (KMRU rework)12 Sep 2025 · SingleVinyl - Fading Form
Fading Form21 Feb 2025 · SingleVinyl - Dinotique
Dinotique22 Nov 2024 · SingleVinyl - Vacuum
Vacuum21 Nov 2024 · SingleVinyl - Clear Vision
Clear Vision27 Sep 2024 · SingleVinyl - moving sleep
moving sleep16 Jul 2024 · SingleVinyl - cine
cine15 Jul 2024 · SingleVinyl - lattice
lattice15 Jul 2024 · SingleVinyl - ArkArk21 May 2024 · SingleVinyl
- DifferDiffer11 Apr 2024 · SingleVinyl
- six
six19 Dec 2023 · SingleVinyl
All 26 singles
- Stupor
Stupor20 Oct 2023 · SingleVinyl - dont linger they might see you
dont linger they might see you2 Sep 2022 · SingleVinyl
- Blind Emperor (KMRU Rework)
Blind Emperor (KMRU Rework)26 Aug 2022 · SingleVinyl - Argon
Argon22 Apr 2021 · SingleVinyl - OTOT16 Mar 2021 · SingleVinyl
- Peel (Continuous Mix)
Peel (Continuous Mix)7 Aug 2020 · SingleVinyl
- Variations [Radiophonic]
Variations [Radiophonic]19 Jun 2020 · SingleVinyl
- Continual
Continual5 Jun 2020 · SingleVinyl - morph
morph1 May 2020 · SingleVinyl
- 2 percent
2 percent30 Aug 2019 · SingleVinyl - 2%
2%8 Aug 2019 · SingleVinyl
- Walking Dreams
Walking Dreams13 Jan 2019 · SingleVinyl - Byculla
Byculla25 Mar 2018 · SingleVinyl - dadar
dadar10 Feb 2017 · SingleVinyl
- Afrosonica - Soundscapes · 2025 · compilation
Records from MusicBrainz, completed with the release lists of Deezer and Apple. Sleeves from the Cover Art Archive and the same lists.
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Bands and projects
The bands KMRU played in, each with its own records. From MusicBrainz.
Also plays on
Records by other artists with KMRU in the credits, from the song and record credits of MusicBrainz and Discogs. Their own bands are above.
In playlists
Playlists with KMRU in them: Sonic Architects selections and Pause & Record tapes from linr listeners, Deezer’s editors and curators, radio shows on Mixcloud and ListenBrainz playlists. Every tile opens on linr first, with the original one link away.
If you like KMRU
- Sarah Davachi3 sources agree
- Tim Hecker3 sources agree
- Huerco S.3 sources agree
- Abul Mogard2 sources agree
- Perila2 sources agree
- Oren Ambarchi2 sources agree
- Emily A. Sprague2 sources agree
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma2 sources agree
- Rachika Nayar2 sources agree
- Space Afrika2 sources agree
- Alessandro Cortini2 sources agree
- Kara-Lis Coverdale2 sources agree
Where the listeners of ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Deezer agree, with the circle of KMRU’s own bands. A source that names other people with the same name is left out.
Also called KMRU
- ArtistKmru house
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