OVD070 : Pierre Vervloesem / Let Fans Pay More If They Want

 

Cover art by A.L.

OVD070: Pierre Vervloesem / Let Fans Pay More If They Want

A simple sentence is the title of the new Pierre album which says everything about the modern time of music, the industry around, the world of djs and computerised compositions by anyone... So you know what to do! Enjoy!

Pierre says:
"Very old drumboxes, dub basses and beautiful weird melodies is what I need this month."

Digital Release on the 26th of May 2023.

Track listing:

1: And Then The Technicians Became Artists

2: Download This

3: Golden Retirement

4: I Like Money

5: Donnez

6: Spotifible

7: Wonders Of The Modern World

8: Huge Hit Somewhere

9: Do You Still Make Music ?

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/let-fans-pay-more-if-they-want

And on Bandcamp:

ODG171 : Horselover FAT / Four Carefully Crafted Courses of Action

 

ODG171 : Horselover FAT / Four Carefully Crafted Courses of Action

Introducing Horselover FAT's debut EP, Four Carefully Crafted Courses of Action. This collection brings together the first four singles from the duo, which operates between Brussels, Belgium, and Bari, Italy. 

Four tracks that transcend the boundaries of jazz, electronica, drone music, improvised music, delving into diverse techniques and directions, with the idea of pushing each time a different process or musical choice to its extreme consequences. 

In the words of the authors: 

“FANS” floats in the whirls of the air moved by huge blades. In this exercise of displacement influenced by spectralism, we find an architecture of ambiguities that questions the listener’s identities in the perception of rhythm and harmony.

Inspired by a museum letdown, “nopipa” [IPA: nɔˈpipä] is a continuous process of slow and constant change, where one can only breathe rapidly two times before plunging for good in pursuit of concealed melodies and shifting hues.

“ya” is the paroxysmal, reiterated manipulation of a solo guitar recording, featuring accurately tuned resonances that lead the listener to a never-happening climax.

Finally, “valhalla” is a picturesque forest tableau featuring small fauna with aspirations of divinity."

Horselover FAT is Giancarlo and Piergiorgio Pirro.
Composed and produced by Horselover FAT.
Mixed and mastered by Horselover FAT, except “FANS” mixed and mastered by Luca Piovesan.

Digital release on the 19th of May 2023.

Track listing:

1: FANS

2: nopipa

3: ya

4: valhalla

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/four-carefully-crafted-courses-of-action

And on Bandcamp:

ODG169 : John Americus Witt / Hils

 

Cover art by Silas Plum

ODG169 : John Americus Witt / Hils

A new album by John Americus (see also  ODG115, OUC026, OUC033, OUC034 and OUC036) is always a thrill and an adventure.  
So here we go with his new concept:

Hils is Danish.  A quick message to send regards to a friend.  So is this, in its way.  The structural conceit is the gradual increase of dosage of some unspecified thing.  The songs are the results of this regiment.  Hold tight.

5 ml is the start.  There is no control song.  We begin at the beginning.

Run is the initial urge to flee.  Fight this.  You gotta go through, not back or around.

10 ml is the first real threshold.  You made it.  Congrats.  It gets rougher

Cortisol is the pure fear.  In your gut.  Your body rebels

15 ml is the pocket.  This is where you want to be.

An Unexpected Arrival is the natural endpoint.  But we are willful creatures, born to chase.

20 ml is the first true misstep.  Should have quit while you were ahead, bud.

Articulated Language becomes strained.  Racing.  Best stay quiet.

25 ml is the internal world.  It is huge and unfamiliar.  Explore.  You will not return.

Viridian/Crimson/Gold is all you see.  Colors and shapes.  Self begins to recede.

30 ml is the true killswitch.  Stop now, and you have a chance.

Georgia is the most remarkable thing about you.  She is patient, and kind.  She beckons.

50 ml (End) is a choice, impetuous and swift.  A mistake.  This is the end.  Goodbye.

Digital release on the 12th of May 2023.

Track listing: 

1: 5 ml
2: Run
3: 10 ml
4: Cortisol
5: 15 ml
6: An Unexpected Arrival
7: 20 ml
8: Articulated Language
9: 25 ml
10: Viridian/Crimson/Gold
11: 30 ml
12: Georgia
13: 50 ml (End)

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/hils

And on Bandcamp:

ODG170 : Leonhard Huhn / The well electrified saxophone

 

Cover photo by Joanna Broda  

ODG170: Leonhard Huhn / The well electrified saxophone

Leonhard (see also ODG145) about his album:

"Ten years of experimentation and research lie behind me: bending sound spectra, adding harmonics or mixing oscillators and pitchshifting, varying spaces by an electronified „saxophone cyborg“. Based on the natural sound of the saxophone and its handling without loops or overdubs. My solo album "The well electrified saxophone" presents the first results of my new „cyborg“. I play it the way I create my music on the wind instrument by breath. Control voltages serve as additional synapses, a second brain so to speak. They extend the modulation of the electronics while I am limited to two hands.

The nine songs were created during long improvisations and sound researches in 2020. My „cyborg“ and circle around a musical idea until we bring it to an essence and record a final version. The titel of the songs tell the stories of my visual journeys while playing."

Leonhard Huhn - alto saxophone, (semi) modular electronics, voice
Recorded in 2020, mixed and mastered by Leonhard Huhn

Digital release on the 5th of May 2023.

Track listing:

1: Welcome

2: Really

3: Gone into a red dimension

4: Can you see their tongue?

5: Schreitende Glocken

6: Living at a train station

7: Bug on a wire

8: Yesterday's always free

9: Lithium Branch

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/the-well-electrified-saxophone

And on Bandcamp:

OVD069 : Pierre Vervloesem - Teun Verbruggen / Chicxulub

 

Cover art by P.V. and A.L.

OVD069 : Pierre Vervloesem - Teun Verbruggen / Chicxulub

Pierre meets again the fantastic drummer Teun Verbruggen(see OCD002 and OVD052) for 2 long tracks of extreme and powerful end of the world music! Nothing to add, just listen and go amok!

Pierre Vervloesem: everything

Teun Verbruggen: the drums

Digital release on the 28th of April 2023.

Track listing:

1: Chicxulub 1

2: Chicxulub 2

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/chicxulub

And on Bandcamp:

OVD071 : The Claude Zac Ensemble / SHWSSSSZZZZ (Live Studio Pyramide)

 

Cover art by Manu Ribot

OVD071 : The Claude Zac Ensemble / SHWSSSSZZZZ (Live Studio Pyramide)

Incredible live in the studio performance by The Claude Zac Ensemble intended to be a demo to find gigs, but none were interested in those days...

See OBX001-OPV004 for the original and final studio album.

Didier Fontaine - Dums 

Gilles Mortio - Bass 

Eric Dory - Guitar 

Laurent Stelleman - Guitar 

Manu Ribot - Guitar 

Pierre Vervloesem - Mix And Production 

Renaud Houben - Recording Engineering

Recorded in 2011.

Digital release on the 26th of April 2023.

Track listing:

1: Fortiutous Hymn

2: Shoelace

3: Unauspicious Move

4: Dano The Dumb

5: Ironmongerie

6: Save Me From Aldi

7: Volkswagner

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/shwsssszzzz

And on Bandcamp: 

OUW018 : Mac Dunlop featuring Escritor Subzero / Un Soir à Tavira

 

Cover art by A.L. from a still of the film 'Un soir à Tavira'

OUW018 : Mac Dunlop featuring Escritor Subzero / Un Soir à Tavira

Un Soir à Tavira adapts its title from Fernando Pessoa’s poem and the musical composition, “Un Soir à Lima”. Inspired by Pessoa's heteronym Alvaro de Campos -who wrote the ‘sensacionista’ manifesto. 

Mac says:
"This inspired me to think of the very non-sensationist world we lived through – our COVID pandemic world of isolationism. Masks, gloves, disinfectant, cleaning, social distancing, etc. left me aksing us asking: what is left for the senses to appreciate? 
Perhaps we all find ourselves living remotely, and in the shadows of how we remember things should be."

“ I am virus to earth, a nothing, a mote, a crown…” 
excerpt from ‘para o vento’ – part of 'Un Soir à Tavira' 

Writer/ composer/ producer: Mac Dunlop

Portuguese translations and voice overs: Escritor SubZero

English voice over: Mac Dunlop

Recorded at: Casa Alvaro de Campos (CAC), Tavira, Portugal

and Blauhaus Falmouth, Cornwall, UK

Mac (see also ODG150 and OUC031) is a composer, producer, and performer based in Cornwall, UK. His poetry publications include Solarium -written while Poet in Residence with the National Trust in 2017, and The Enigma Deviations published by the Poetry Point Press in 2015. 

His recent albums include  Somewhere Nearby and MDQ – Live at the Aberfal, both available from Off Record. His latest projects, An Ambient Year, and Esboços can also be found on bandcamp and streaming services . 

His music ranges in style from experimental ambient to modern classical and jazz. He features on BBC Sounds, Resonance FM and other independent music and sound art broadcasters. Mac is a regular contributor to the Poemus series of music and poetry events at Casa Alvaro de Campos throughout the year.

link to film: HERE

Digital release on the 21st of April 2023.

Track listing: 

1: A Onda / The Wave

2: Canto da Alvorada / Dawn Chorus

3: O Vento Sopra / The Wind Blows

4: Tabacaria

5: Aliada Mentirosa / Lying Ally

6: Para O Vento / For the Wind

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/un-soir-a-tavira

And on Bandcamp: