Parisian avant-garde electronic artist Aho Ssan releasing debut album - with an imaginary jazz band

Debut album 'Simulacrum' by the Paris-based avant-garde electronic artist Aho Ssan references French cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 text 'Simulacra and Simulacrum' - the album plays with notions of simulation and synthesis. The Fader says Aho Ssan was unable to find a jazz musician to collaborate with, so he began building patches in Max/MSP to create simulations of a fictional jazz ensemble, called The Mensah Imaginary Band. The ensemble is named after his grandfather Mensah Anthony, who Aho Ssan never met, but who played trumpet in a Ghanaian band the 1950s. 'Simulacrum' arrives on February 7; watch the video for 'Simulacrum IV' below, listen to a longer, better version of the sam song at Bandcamp.