ODG146 : Von Stroheim / The Beautiful, Not the Damned

 

Cover art by David Crunelle

ODG146 : Von Stroheim / The Beautiful, Not the Damned

New Ep from Von Stroheim after their powerful single 'Bucketful of Bile (see ODG144 and also their previous album ODG101 and their intriguing reprise of the Buzzcocks hit 'Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) ODG116). 

Self recorded in their basement during covid and, as ever, strongly telling the rest of the world about their feelings! 

It's rock, it's hard, it's doom, it's good!

Marry Me:

The 4 covers by David Crunelle that compose the complete one for the Ep:

Bucketful of Bile

Marry Me

Men

Poison

Digital release on the 24th of September 2021.

Track listing:

1: Bucketful of Bile

2: Marry Me

3: Men

4: Poison

OVX018 : Wataru Iwata / Vexations Vol.18

 

Cover art by A.L.

OVX018 : Wataru Iwata / Vexations Vol.18

What Wataru says about his proposal:

"Furniture is not moving as it is moving though what if I am moving.

家具はそのままでは動きませんが、私が動いていたらどうでしょう。

Furniture is not moving as it is moving though what if I or we are moving.

家具はそのままでは動きませんが、もし私や私たちが動いていたらどうでしょう。

Furniture doesn't move as it is, but what if I or we were moving it?

家具はそのままでは動きませんが、もし私や私たちが動かしていたらどうでしょう？

Furniture doesn't move as it is, but what if I or we will be moving it?

家具はそのままでは動きませんが、もし私や私たちが動かすとしたらどうでしょう？

It is as if the empty space of a pottery made of kneaded clay has a use for storing things, or a door or window is hollowed out to create a room behind it, and the empty space has a use as a room.

それは粘土をこねて作った陶器の空っぽの部分に物を入れる使いみちがあり、戸や窓をくりぬいてその奥に居室をつくり、その何もない空間に部屋としての用途があるようなものである."

                                                             

Wataru San

岩田渉　Iwata Wataru

コンポーザー/アーティスト  Composer/Artist

Composes and produces music in a variety of styles (see also OJP038 and OJP042 (quartet), OJP039 (solo), OJP041 and OJP044 (duo)), from acoustic to electro music. In addition, he is also involved in the creation and direction of installations and stage works, and is engaged in other activities that are trans-disciplinary.

アコースティックなものから電子音楽まで、様々なスタイルの音楽を作曲・制作している。また、インスタレーションや舞台作品の制作・演出など、領域を超えた活動を行っている。

https://objet-a.art/wataru_portfolio/

https://www.instagram.com/wtr000/　

Bandcamp only release on the 22nd of September 2021.

Track listing:

40x Vexations - Electroacoustic reconstruction

OPV016 : Pierre Vervloesem / Pierre Vervloesem's Flambant Neuf

 

Cover art by Thierry Mondelaers

OPV016 : Pierre Vervloesem / Pierre Vervloesem's Flambant Neuf

Pierre Vervloesem's Flambant Neuf is the return of Pierre in a quintet format. Surrounded by some of the best Belgian musicians with whom he shared music already in various bands ( Bruno Vansina band, Flat Earth Society, Pierre Vervloesem Group...), Pierre allowed everyone to add what they wanted on his tracks then mixed the music to a grand spectacle which reminds various styles but with a definitive modern and vigorous joy behind them! Enjoy!

Teun Verbruggen : DrumsFalk Schrauwen : Percussions  

Thomas Mayade : Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Baryton Bb, Keyboard

Bruno Vansina : Saxes, Keyboard, Xun

Pierre Vervloesem : Bass, Guitar, General view

Drums and bass recorded at La Grange by Jean-Pierre Jonckheere

Bruno Vansina recorded by Bruno Vansina

Thomas Mayade recorded by Thomas Mayade

Composed by everyone

Mixed and mastered by Pierre Vervloesem

Thanks to Bernard Moucheron

Cover art Thierry Mondelaers

Physical and digital release on the 17th of September 2021.

Track listing:

1: Route 65

2: Muchongoyo

3: Grand Outlandish Hotel

4: Exmoor Horn

5: Rigor Mortis

6: Dacron Dream

7: You're in My Way

8: Chinese Facelift

And on Bandcamp:

 

Physical CD here:

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OVX017 : Keitaro Yamaguchi / Vexations Vol.17

 

Cover art by A.L.

OVX017 : Keitaro Yamaguchi / Vexations Vol.17

What Keitaro says about his proposal:

"I have only had experience in recording with a large ensemble, but I am grateful to have been invited to this project and to have been able to take on a new challenge.

Unlike the piano, wind instruments can only produce a single note at a time, so it was fun to make multiple recordings and play as an ensemble."

Keitaro Yamaguchi is one of the horns players of The Tokyo universal Philharmonie orchestra.

Keitaro San

録音は大人数での収録しか経験の無かった私が、このようなプロジェクトに誘ってもらい、新たな挑戦ができた事に感謝します。

ピアノと違い管楽器は単音しか1度に出せないので、多重録音をして1人アンサンブルをしたのも楽しかったです。

Bandcamp only release on the 8th of September 2021.

Track listing:

40x Vexations - English Horns

OJP060 : Agito Maruyama / Epilogue

 

Cover art by Kohoshi Shihoko

OJP060: Agito Maruyama / Epilogue

Agito Maruyama aka Itachi Mode (see OJP037 and OJP040) comes back with an introspective mini album which tells all about his corona confinement period in Tokyo which was as complex as anybody else in the rest of the world. Spending time at home with few walks in his favorite streets was quite a boring time and a lot of self asked questions. But here he is again with an album that starts wondering and finishes with hopes and new lights for the future. The album has touches of his signature electronic music but this time less up tempo and even introducing contemporary sort of classical music. A new departure, enjoy!

Agito San

Mochi San

Trailer:

Digital release on the 10th of September 2021.

Track listing:

1: Repentance (feat. Itachi Mode, Marumoko)

2: Gloomy Sky (feat. Itachi Mode)

3: Dance (feat. Itachi Mode, Mochi)

4: Light in the Depression (feat. Itachi Mode, Marumoko)

And on Bandcamp:

OVX016 : Christophe Petchanatz / Vexations Vol.16

 

Cover art by A.L.

OVX016 : Christophe  Petchanatz / Vexations Vol.16

What Christophe says about his proposal:

"Erik Satie was probably one of the most founding composers for my approach to music, between classical and modern, humor but dignity, and an incredible sense of melody. It was also listening to Satie that allowed me to go from rock'n'roll to classical as a listener.
Moreover we had a fairly close project with Denis Tagu from the In-Poly-Sons label, which we had discussed this summer.

As for the method, as I often work in small parts, trying and errors, adding, removing, a bit like cooking (except that it is difficult to remove when cooking!)"

Christophe

Christophe Petchanatz (Lyon, france) aka Klimperei:
Toy-music, naive, minimal, experimental, neo-classical, bizarre, avant-garde, lunar, overturned toy box, noise-pop... 
Founded in 1985, Klimperei at this time focuses on the composition of minimal and childish short instrumental pieces, in the mood of Erik Satie or Nino Rota. 
More than sixty records were released on various French, German, Japanese, US labels... 
Klimperei works also for theater, dance, tv, advertissements and multimedia events... 
In recent years, the duo Madame Patate-Klimperei became a stable and complementary configuration for live performances... 
Live and studio collaborations are numerous : Daevid Allen, Ammakasie Noka - Mayu Nanba, Pascal Ayerbe, Pierre Bastien, Jac Berrocal, CE François Couture, Éric Chabert, Chapi Chapo, Centre Aéré, Sacha Czerwone, Don Simon y Telefunken, David Fenech, GNG, Eli Gras, Dominique Grimaud, Itoken, Judith Juillerat, Felix Kubin, Frank Pahl, The Pancakes, Palo Alto, Bernard Szajner, Shugo Tokumaru, Voxfazer... and of course Madame Patate ! 
He has toured the world playing live numerous festivals.
http://klimperei.free.fr/index.html

instrumentarium:

various vst & sf2

classical, folk & electric guitars (sometimes prepared)

synthétiseur ks-32 ensoniq

percussions

xylophone

chimes

elastic bands

music box

looper

toy-piano

objects

flutes

various effects

some midi devices

Bandcamp only release on the 8th of September 2021.

Track listing:

40x Vexations - Various instruments and various effects

OUW016 : Sarah Kokot / Se Souvenir

 

Art cover: detail of a work by André Prues (c) coll. Art et marges musée

OUW016 : Sarah Kokot / Se Souvenir

Sarah Kokot is born in Belgium in 1984. As a child, she wanted to become a painter, or writer, or florist. With its sound capsules, it is a bit of all three at the same time ... Offering our senses, through sound and word, mental landscapes to dream and to feel.

Sarah - pic by Jeanne Bidlot

She produced her first sound capsules in 2016 during a radio creation workshop hosted by Marie Michiels and Miguel Allo. She then began to distribute them on a Soundcloud page which she called "Les petits ordres". The expression comes from entomology and designates the orders of insects less known to the general public.

In her sound poems, Sarah Kokot strives to magnify the insignificant, to stretch a furtive sensation, an absurd reflection into a space of astonishment that is both naive and disillusioned.

After "Minutes domestiques" (2019, see OUW001), "Se Souvenir" is her second album to be released on the "Off" label. For this project, she is inspired by six works from the collection of the Brussels museum of brut and outsider art, the Art et marges museum and slips, through sound, into what the fragile, the delicate, the enigma of these works leave him space to echo them.

From works by: Paul Duhem, Mohammed Targa, Antoine Mvumbi, Sylvain Cosijns, André Prues and Michel Dave.

Directed by Sarah Kokot, with the exception of "Le blanc de ton parfum": arrangements Sarah Kokot-Alinovsky and "We are advancing in time": text by Michel Dave.
Mastering: Pierre Vervloesem.
Cover: detail of a work by André Prues (c) coll. Art et marges musée
With the support of Art et marges musée and La Semaine du son.

Digital release on the 4th of September 2021.

Track listing:

1: Passé Empiétant

Paul Duhem (c) coll. Art et marges musée

2: Le blanc de ton parfum

Mohammed Targa (c) coll. Art et marges musée

3: Note de passage

Antoine Mvumbi (c) coll. Art et marges musée

4: Assieds-toi correctement

Sylvain Cosijns (c) coll. Art et marges musée

5: Lames

André Prues (c) coll. Art et marges musée

6: Nous avançons dans le temps

Michel Dave (c) coll. Art et marges musée

And on Bandcamp: