ODG067 : Blaine L. Reininger / Glossolalia + 10th Anniversary Release Bonus Tracks

ODG067 : Blaine L. Reininger / Glossolalia + 10th Anniversary Release Bonus Tracks


The 25th of May 2007 saw the first release on Off, the magnificent solo album from Blaine L; Reininger 'Glossolalia' (see OCD001)!
There is no better time than re releasing it digitally 10 years later with 5 extra bonus tracks not originally on the album.

Glossolalia was the first solo album of Blaine since 1999, and probably his best ever at the time!

You just had to close your eyes and starts travelling through old black and white Italian and Greek movies from the 60ties, or cross the ocean and feel again the colors and the heat from Mexico !

Glossololia is a mixture of all the places and people that Blaine encountered in the last 10 years before recording it. 
An album full of poetry, faith in the world and a musical journey!

Blaine L. Reininger is an American composer and performer born in 1953 in Pueblo, Colorado. In 1977 he started the legendary American cult band Tuxedomoon together with Steven Brown in San Francisco.

Over the course of the next 26 years, many artistic collaborations took place and many cd’s were recorded. These collaborations, while mostly musical in nature, often moved into other fields such as dance, theatre, and film.

Since  1998, he lives in Athens Greece.

glos·so·la·li·a   from Gk. glossa "tongue, language" + lalia "a speaking," from lalein "to speak, prattle," of echoic origin

1.  Fabricated and nonmeaningful speech, especially such speech associated with a trance state or certain schizophrenic syndromes.

2.  the gift of tongues

Blaine L. Reininger website: mundoblaineo.org

'Throatsinging' video by Blaine himself:

and one for 'Ici Salvador Dali':



Digital only release on the 26th of May 2017.

Track listing:

1: Throatsinging

2: Glossolalia

3: No Need to Move the Camera

4: Lemonaki

5: Ici Salvador Dali

6: Hank and Audrey

7: Lunar Rose Oubliette

8: Cowboy Elektra

9: Drippy

10: Dance in Your Blood

11: Ich will Musik

12: Look like a Rube

13: Feel Like I'm on Drugs - 10th Anniversary Release Bonus Track

14: Moozeek Poo Einai      - 10th Anniversary Release Bonus Track

15: Drip Drip Drip               - 10th Anniversary Release Bonus Track

16: Arpy Arpy                     - 10th Anniversary Release Bonus Track

17: Corngrind                     - 10th Anniversary Release Bonus Track

You can still buy the original cd here: 
there is a special anniversary price of 15€ when buying 2 cds from the Off catalogue. 
See the shop page HERE!

Prices

World shipping €12,00 EUR

Off 10th anniversary starts this week!!!

Hello to all!

May 25th 2007 saw the first ever release on Off!
In order to celebrate this anniversary, Off starts this week with 1 DJ mix on Bandcamp:

Off-10 years in a nutshell is a mix by German musician and DJ Morgen Wurde which celebrate the 10th anniversary of the label. It's a 4 parts mixes based on ambient, downtempo and rock with a total of no less than 50 tracks representing around 65% of the label's music! 

So enjoy, listen, discover and don't hesitate to look for more once you like one of the artist of this gigantic mix!

And for those who prefers just to stream, Off have a playlist with a huge choice of music covering 85% of the label releases that you can download or follow here:

And for all of you who wants still the real thing, you can order 2 cds for the price of 15€!!!
You can choose any cds from OCD001 to OCD030 (except OCD024) or OPV001 to OPV011including worldwide shipping.
The box The C.K. Theory OBX001 is 15€ including worldwide shipping.
20€ for OBX001 + 1 cds from OCD or OPV series including worldwide shipping.
The rest of the catalogue comes at the normal price.
For 3 cds order, you will receive a free dvd of Lomahongva.

For 4 cds order, you will receive a free box The C.K. Theory OBX001 and a dvd of Lomahongva.

You can just paypal at:
order@stilll.org
and write which cds you wish!
Enjoy!

ORT019 : Northern Escorts / Impeccable Class

Artwork & Cover concept by Ian Dykmans

ORT019 : Northern Escorts / Impeccable Class

Northern Escorts is a Belgian experimental rock band formed in 2016 by Sigfried Burroughs, Teun Verbruggen, Thijs Troch, Jan Daelman.

Influenced by modern times and a passion for contemporary avant garde, their music searches through some sort of bizarre confusion between jazz and violence combined with their love for electronics.

They establish a brute but balanced musical form, assaulting the body and scraping the skull.

Teun (1975) first picked up the drums by age of 8. After getting fed up with having to play always the same fills in rock bands he was getting interested in jazz-and improvised music. He went to the concervatory of Brussels were he took lessons with Hans Van Oosterhout. Since graduating from this school in 1999 he started working as a sideman in lots of different bands and musical Styles. His searching for a personal touch and wanting to explore all possibilities of playing music and drums, his lack of boundaries and styles and trying to find fresh sounds and freedom in collectif improvisation made him work (and still touring) with (among others):

Alexi Tuomarila 4tet and Trio, Jef Neve Trio, FES, VVG trio, Karanova (featuring Kitchen Motors from Iceland and Mauro Pawlowski), Molo Trio, Jambangle, Rackham, Pascal Schumacher 4tet, “4”, JojoBa, Streams,Silent Song, Jozef Dumoulin Trio,...

Thijs Troch is a Belgian piano player, mainly active in improvised music.

He plays in bands such as : Keenroh, Jukwaa, Kabas, Glin Fraktion, Hypochristmutreefuzz, Northern Escorts, Residuum Free Unit, Bulliphant,...

Jan Daelman is a Belgian flute-player.

He plays in bands such as: Keenroh, Kabas, Glin Fraktion, Northern Escorts, Residuum Free Unit, DST Trio, The Milk Factory, ...

Sigfried Burroughs (1987) is a musical centipede and multi-instrumentalist graduated from The Royal Conservatory of Brussels in June 2016.

Especially known as drummer in popular rock formations such as Kapitan Korsakov & The K.  Frontman and co-founder of ONMENS, where he lends his voice to the unique mix of beats and electronics.

He's recognized as a musician who's hunger for experiment is insatiable.

Active in various jazz projects: JUKWAA (drums); Northern Escorts w. Teun Verbruggen (vocal/bass); Residuum Free Unit w. Dirk Serries (drums:noise/electronics); Burroughs & Crane w. Mattias De Craene (drums), Kleedje w. Elias Devoldere (drum-duo). He recently became a fixed member in FÄR and started working for the Ghent based booking/management bureau Live Fast Die Young, besides Joppe Behaeghe. They'll put up their own LFDY record label in September 2017. Burroughs also runs TAPIR Promotion, an independent music promotion agency.

As a part of his final project at Brussels Conservatory, he set up his formation Glin Fraktion. An avant-garde ensemble which explores different aspects of contemporary music.

Besides band formations he's also deeply interested in noise, electronics, recording and producing.

Thijs Troch : Synth
Jan Daelman : Sax & Violin
Teun Verbruggen : Drums & Electronics
Sigfried Burroughs : Vocals & Bass

Recorded by Nicolas Lefèvre at Sunny Side Inc. Brussels, Belgium
Performed live, February 2016
Mixing, Editing & Mastering by Joe Talia, Melbourne, Australia
Cover photo by Ian Dykmans with Myriam Clericuzi, "la femme arbre"

The vinyl is on sale at Rat records here.

The band in action

The band relaxing

Digital release on the 19th of May 2017.

Track listing:

Side A: "Je choisis la facon dont je m'habille"

Side B: "Le laquais doit couper les etoiles"

OUC003 : Baishui / Sound In Motion: Prologue - Puzzle Suite

Cover art by A.L.

OUC003 : Baishui / Sound In Motion: Prologue - Puzzle suite

After releasing his post-rock-prog-folk single " No Intrinsic, No Independent" (see OAS003), Baishui returns with two completely different albums: Prologue and Puzzle Suite.

Born in a small Sichuanese city, Baishui is a composer and self-taught guitarist, pianist and master of many traditional Chinese instruments, whose compositions and performance have ranged across his career from neo-folk and dark-ambient-influenced music to experimental and post-rock sounds—and beyond.

"Throughout Baishui’s work, a near-religious serenity and atmosphere transports one to a faraway place; foreign yet familiar; where Baishui, and his listeners, seem to be the only residents."  Jonathan Campbell

1: Prologue

About Prologue, better read what Luo Keju & Jonathan Campbell have written about it:

"Sound, which we experience in fascinating and abstract ways, is difficult to describe. 

From the three-piece prog- and post-rock sound of City of Lost to his first attempt at minimalist glitches Diary of Broken Sounds, prolific Sichuan musician Baishui has been searching for ways to describe and enable the experience of sound. In pieces or as a whole; violent or delicate; carefully-composed or improvised: The search for the balance of these, and other, opposites in the various moments of his work is what Baishui's music has been about. 

In a new series of projects -- Sound in Motion -- Baishui examines the relationship between sound and movement. Whether in terms of sound's motion or changing, the project is intentionally open-ended; Baishui lays the musical foundations upon which a range of artists from a variety of backgrounds are invited to build through collaboration. 

Sound in Motion: Prologue is the series' first release, with four musicians representing different genres participating in their own unique ways. It originates from a field recording or a photograph with which collaborators are encouraged to employ in their own ways; Baishui then combines the contributions into a final product. There is no certain end point to the project; rather, the very nature of sound emerges from the somewhat random creative process. 

More releases, as well as performances, are now being prepared for the series' future stages. A perpetually-evolving project, artists from across modern dance, visual and installation art as well as sound artists of all kinds are sought to maintain the motion essential to the series."

A marvelous video:

Originally released in December 2015.

all music by baishui 
produced by baishui, luo keju 
sounds & instruments by baishui 
analog synthesizer by luo keju 
mixed & mastered by luo keju 
original photo by baishui 
design and layout by sun yunfan, deng zhang, yuan tian 
guest artists: yuan tian (#00 vocal performing), lanre (#00 vocal samples), yao chunyang (#01 electronics), lin tianran (#03 vocal performing)

Original cover

2: Puzzle Suite

Puzzle Suite is the second full-length album of Sound in Motion Series, which is a suite composed of single sound material. Sichuan musician Baishui tried to use relatively simple improvisation instrumental recording, vocal samples as well as field recording to create a sound poem without words. 

Originally released on September 2016.

all music composed by baishui except vocal performance (#1, 3, 8) 

produced by baishui 

ruan, guitar, bamboo flute, bells by baishui 

cymbals by chen ran (#7) 

vocal by yao chunyang (#1), yuan tian (#3), anna (#8) 

recorded at blanksounds studio by baishui 

field recorded in fuxing, xiamen, yibin by baishui (#2, 5, 6) 

edited, mixed & mastered by baishui 

original photo by achiu 

design & layout by yuan tian 

cover artist is zhang dianling 

Original cover

Digital release on the 12th of May 2017.

Digitally distributed on KKBOX for all the Asian friends who want to listen and discover!

Track listing:

1: Prologue:

1) Prologue #00

2) Prologue #01

3) Prologue #02

4) Prologue #03

5) Prologue #04

2: Puzzle Suite:

1) Five Grains of Sand (feat. Yao Chunyang)

2) Four Strings

3) Dwarf (feat. Yuan Tian)

4) Migraine

5) Assassination

6) Stone Frog River

7) Strange Moth (feat. Chen Ran)

8) This Soul of Mine (feat. Anna)

And on Bandcamp:

OUC004 : Ben Bertrand / Era-Area Live @ Ateliers Claus

Cover art by A.L. from a Kurs Freitags image

OUC004 : Ben Bertrand / Era-Aera Live @Ateliers Claus

Recorded live at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, this is another side of the first Ep (see ODG065) released by Belgian clarinetist Ben Bertrand. 

Opposed to the studio recordings, the songs take now a more dynamic approach and interfere more with the loops created live on the moment. 

While the first four songs are re arranged and re imprecations of different or anonymous artists, the last song, 'Swiss Landscape' is a personal composition from Ben Bertrand. 

For just a few loops, electronics and a clarinet, the music sounds intricate and powerful!

A teaser of his live action:

Digital release on the 5th May 2017.

Track listing:

1) Intro + Parial Truth (Evan Ziporyn)

2) Planctus for Jerusalem (Anonymous)

3) Lauda for Bassclarinet and Drone (Gavin Bryars)

4) Pygmy Song (Traditional)

5) Swiss Landscape (Ben Bertrand)