Off - Record label
OVD053 : Pierre Vervloesem / Minimal Tropical
Pierre going Brazilian in his personal and typical way to offer the world his visions of what should be the best Brazilian songs and rhythms.
Track number 6 'Uma Canção Irritante' is a deconstruction of Corcovado by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
The great Morgan Agren is on drums on number 10.
A perfect way to finish 2021 and dance on this new-year eve! Enjoy!
OJP062 : Toshinori Kondo feat.Ruben Van Rompaey / Ethereal Resonance
A perfect combination between the electrified trumpet from the late Toshinori Kondo and an ambient drone and effects concocted by Dutch percussionist Ruben Van Rompaey.
40 minutes of pure ethereal resonance as the title rightly suggest!
Close your eyes, empty your mind and let you transport in a parallel world without all the problems of ours! Merry X-Mas to all!
Digital release on the 24th of December 2021
Track listing:
1: Ethereal resonance
ODG151 : Xtof Calis / Unifié
Xtof Calis (see also ODG122 and ODG127) in something completely different from his usual introspective album! What he says about it:
'This album shows my love for rhythm and electronic dance music. I started every piece with laying out a groove at 120 bpm. Then I started to lay out the ambient textures that fit in how I prefer to territorialize the body.'
ODG152 : Out Of Tune Wolf / Down from the Abbey
Out of Tune Wolf (see also the superb ODG094) is a solo project by Josh Rodenberg, an American sound artist based out of Doha, Qatar.
Rodenberg is a father, educator, skater just trying to navigate his small universe in the most positively impactful way he knows how to.
His future projects include sound design for an experimental documentary and VR game about Springtails and a podcast that is a sonic narrative.
OVD052 : Pierre Vervloesem - Teun Verbruggen / Young Talents
After their perfect P.V.T.V. album released back in 2011(see OCD002) and a lot of other collaborations via Pierre's bands ( Caca, Flambant Neuf...) or other ones (Flat Earth Society), 2021 sees the perfect reunion of Teun Verbruggen (one of the most prolific Belgian jazz drummer) and Pierre Vervloesem for a powerful album named rightly 'Young Talents'!
It's not like a rediscovery but surely like a discovery! Amazing tunes that will transport you in another dimension and a future favorite for many!
Young Talents??? You bet!
Digital release on the 27th of November 2021
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OJP063 : Tetsuroh Konishi / Scenes
New beautiful album from Tetsuroh San ( in solo: OJP001, OJP002, OJP027, OJP052 and OJP059, in duo with Ai Kisaragi : OJP021 and OJP034, as a guest on Morgen Wurde albums: OCD027, OCD040 and OCD045, and on the various artists on the OJP050) inspired by Mika Kaurismäki and Finland. Enjoy!
What Tetsuroh says about his album:
"COVID19 pandemic started in 2019. Live performance was my main job but it was all gone. I had a lot of time and thought a lot. I originally became a composer because I wanted to do music for theater and video but I forgot about it until the pandemic took away my performance opportunities. I've made music for radio and television before but I've never tried my hand at film music. So I sent my work to many filmmakers. The first person who replied to me was the Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki, a master of the film world. From there I began to create music inspired by the film. Many of the songs on this album have Finnish titles because they are inspired by Mika Kaurismäki's films and the landscapes of Finland and Lapland. These songs have not yet been used in a film but "Kevään ääniä" was chosen for Mika Kaurismäki's 2020 film "Gracious Night. The last song "Street Horizon" was composed with the image of a modern big city."
OUC035 : Kostas Boukouvalas / Lives
“Lives” are seven large scale compositions for piano, inspired by seven different philosophical aspects of Life.
Kostas Boukouvalas is a Greek composer and pianist based in Athens.
Amateur theatre performances, short films, commercials, as well as school plays have been accompanied by his music. He has also been a member of art and electronic music groups from time to time.
In December 2011 he released his first personal recording “Few notes are enough to change the world”.
In 2016 he founded the ensemble “The Last of the Romantics”, with which he presents his music in various art venues in Athens.
In 2018 he composed the music for the “YOYO” Erasmus+ European Project (Educational Yoga for the YOLO Generation).
In March 2020 his second recording "Memories from a Sea View" was released (see OUC025)
Website: https://kboukouvalas.wixsite.com/official
Digital release on the 5th of November 2021.
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ODG153 : Baby Fire / Eternal
Baby Fire is a female trio defined by a rock style which is full of rage, haunted, powerful and refined. Close to the aesthetic defended by artists such as P. J. Harvey or Shannon Wright, Baby Fire are in the process of putting the finishing touches to their fifth album. Mike Moya (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and G.W. Sok (ex-The Ex, Oiseaux-Tempête...) are among the guests featured on Grace.
The release of 'Grace', announced for Spring 2022, will be accompanied by an exhibition at BRASS (Brussels) devised and put together by the band. It will shine the spotlight on women's work in culture, through media as diverse as photography, painting, drawing, textile art and collage.
'Eternal', ‘Grace’’s first single, features French art rocker Laetitia Shériff, whom Baby Fire befriended when sharing the stage at Magasin 4 in Brussels in 2015.
Digital release on the 29th of October 2021.
Track listing:
1: Eternal
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OVD051 : Pierre Vervloesem : Basses of May The return of Pierre to his first love: The Bass! So this is album composed and played only with his favourite bass. 11 tracks with nothing other than his vibrant, powerful, intimate, organic, inventive, destructive, gravitational bass! Not a word to add, just listen and enjoy! |
ODG150 : Mac Dunlop Quartet / Live at the Aberfal Blauhaus
OJP061 : Ruben Van Rompaey feat. Toshinori Kondo / The Sakura Mixes
5 tracks that were recorded between 2014 and 2020 and a remix from the 'Tokyo Fusion' album (see the beautiful OJP057).
Very introspective this time, more ambient and experimental, more relax and looking to another possible world, like the beautiful ending track of this mini album.
Stop thinking, close your eyes and take your time to listen...
Digital release on the 15th of October 2021.
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OVX021 : Céline Lory - Gil Mortio / Vexations Vol.21
What Céline says about her proposal:
"Vexations - the musical piece and its succulent title - have been with me for many years. Short, simple and original piece - I incorporated it in several of my shows, I also participated in its collective performance “marathon” in Bozar a few years ago. So I liked the idea that the musical piece would be on my path again in 2021 since its evocative title reflects our current experience. Calling on producer Gil Mortio was a way of breaking away from the routine of solo rehearsal and radically turning to a reinterpretation. Starting from a "classic" version revolving around the piano and its playing modes, he turned, kneaded and rearranged the piece. By playing, among other things, with the indomitable length prescribed by the composer, he creates a play of colors and shapes with acid tones aligned in spectral layers."
Hybrid, mutant, impure, transgender on the artistic scene, Céline Lory, classical pianist, explorer of songs, photographs, texts, music, piano and voice and body: she blurs the tracks and makes fun of hunters. The actual period abuses of a kind of house arrest: « from where are you talking? ", like an old police summon that is still current in the cultural field, to which she is loath to play while playing - check out her self-portraits which look at you, acid and tender! - her compositions are raw, beautiful nude and uncompromising. Her sound object “en Corps y-bride” - dilapidated as it should be, labyrinthine, well written and well played - is the first delirium on an album of a classical pianist who came to write songs where interludes and instrumental improvisations played by happy hands deliver powerful texts.
https://celinelory.bandcamp.com
Gil Mortio is a well known multi instrumentalist who played with, recorded or produced a lot of bands. He's an aficionado who can adapt his creativity to a various genres of music.
Bandcamp only release on the 6th of November 2021.
OUC034 John Americus Witt / Litost
The new album from the fascinating American contemporary composer John Americus Witt (see also ODG115, OUC026 and OUC033) or another strange and emotional proposal turning around specific sensations going through your body.
It will live with you forever.
Discover the beautiful works from Silas Plum HERE!
Digital release on the 8th of October 2021.
Track listing:
OVX020 : Jozef Dumoulin / Vexations Vol.20
What Jozef says about his proposal:
“Since long I have been fascinated by the idea of very long static performances based on very limited musical material mixed with improvisation. Some years ago I became aware of Erik Satie’s Vexations and in 2017 I convinced the people at Le Petit Faucheux in Tours (France), where I was artist in residence at the time, to set up a musical happening around the piece. For 9 hours straight (more wasn’t possible due to logistics) we would play Vexations, and whoever felt like could come up and join us, to either play the ‘text’ or to improvise around it. This allowed for people with very different backgrounds of level and experience to play together, which relates to another zone of interest of mine.
The performance in Tours was an extremely enriching adventure, albeit a little stiff, that made me aware of a lot of things I had never payed attention to before.
One year later I got the chance to set up a similar happening around Satie’s Vexations at Werkplaats Walter in Brussels (Belgium), this time for a full 24 hours. Things were sufficiently loose there, and the place is connected to a big local network of artists, so a lot of different people of all ages, levels, and art-forms attended and participated, which made for an exhilarating and colourful event.
Now, when Alain Lefebvre proposed me to be part of the 21 artists performing 40 repetitions of Vexations for his Off label, I said yes without having a particular idea in mind about how I was going to proceed. But at some point it became an evidence for me that I was going to do it with my family. I have 9 sisters and 2 brothers, and by now there’s more than 30 grandchildren. I always wanted to record something with them, and this was a perfect opportunity. I knew that if I told “Ok, I’m just going to sit in our mother’s garden and play 40 repetitions of that piece, you can come and play with me”, they would most probably do it. And if they didn’t, it would still make for a cool field-recording at a meaningful place.
When the set date became closer, a new, very determining and loaded element showed up: it happened to coincide with quite destructive works on our childhood house, right next-doors of my mother’s house, where one of my brothers lives now. The works caused a lot of emotion for most of us, and plain distress for some. With my brother we decided that we’d play there, right on the remains of what used to be our living room. This, combined with the fact that it was the first time we all reunited since my mom’s 80th birthday party right before the pandemic, gave the whole thing a very special flavour. Almost everybody showed up, and a whole lot participated by playing or by just hanging around. I’m super grateful for that, and happy to have captured the moment.
As for the final sound file, I’ve let the entire field-recording as such but choose to add two elements: synths playing the exact written material, and 2 kind of randomly dispatched and unrelated piano-loops. Those piano-loops are there to honour Satie’s spirit, to get the whole object in a kind of up-in-te-air zone that is always dear to me, and as an expression of the love and affection I feel for the whole of my family.”
Highly-demanded as a sideman, Jozef Dumoulin has recorded and toured with the finest of musicians in the domain of jazz, improvised music, rock, classical and traditional music. He currently lives in Paris.
The family:
Katrien Dumoulin: tuba
Siska Dumoulin: bassoon
Eva Claeys: cello
Pieter Dumoulin: cello, solo voice
Ayaan Dumoulin: toy saxophone, keyboards, drums
Ivo Dumoulin: bass, trombone
Tuur Dumoulin: saxophone, bass
Kasper Dumoulin: trumpet
Hilde Vanmaele: melodica
Barbe Dumoulin: saxophone
Mieke Dumoulin: violin
Anne Claeys: violin
Tom Meeuws: drums
Pieter Claeys: drums
Emine Meyrem Karamemet: drums
Daniele Martini: toy saxophone
Hilde Dumoulin: flute
Jozef Dumoulin: piano, keyboards
+ quite some others on various percussion instruments and voice
Jan Claeys: display of repetition count
Recorded by Daniele Martini in Ingelmunster, Belgium, on September 5th 2021.
Mixed by Jozef Dumoulin and Daniele Martini
Mastered by Daniele Martini
Cover art by Janet McBurney
ODG149: Mademoiselle Plume Rouge / Junkie Movie Music
The duo Mademoiselle Plume Rouge was created in 2018 by Stéphane Povitch Augsburger (electric guitar, sampled voices, effect pedals, loopers) and Frédéric Minner (electric bass, soprano saxophone, effect pedals, loopers).
The two musicians have known each other and collaborated in various musical projects for the last 20 years. In 2018, they decided to launch a new project focused on the development of new instrumental sonorities. After several months of searching and experimenting, the duo decided to move away from the pure free improvisation they were playing in order to develop more constructed musical forms. During this time they performed several selected shows across Switzerland, with the highlight of a recent performance at Geneva’s La Cave 12 venue.
In the winter of 2021, they were offered a residency by the City of Geneva at La Cave 12 to record their debut album “Junkie Movie Music”. The 4 pieces of the album are dark, evocative and cinematic, using repetition to create a hypnotic atmosphere. They employ different compositional techniques like themes, quartal harmonies, atonalism, drones, riffs, works on textures and timbers, and clusters. These techniques draw their inspiration from composers such as Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, or Helmut Lachenmann but also from traditional Japanese music, contemporary jazz (Craig Taborn, Dave Liebman, Bobo Stenson), New-York avant-garde music from the 80s-90s (John Lurie, no-wave, John Zorn), and experimental doom (Sunn O))), Boris).
Frédéric Minner (born in 1978) is a bassist and saxophonist based in Zürich (Switzerland). He played in various rock, jazz, metal and experimental bands (like Poppins) and is a member of the Insub Meta Orchestra since 2010 with whom he recorded 3 albums and toured in Europe.
Scene 1:
Digital release on the 1st of October 2021.
Track listing:
1: Scene 1: What Do You Wanna Hear Kid?
2: Scene 2: He Just Kept on Playing That over and over and over Again.
3: Scene 3: I Can't Seem to Sleep at Night. Not in This City.
4: Scene 4: I Should Go In a 3-Piece White Suit Like Charlie Parker.
