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:

OUI009 : SPACE808 / Multidimensional Memory - Dimensional Stairs

 

Original cover art by Hiroto Uezi

OUI009 : SPACE808 / Multidimensional Memory - Dimensional Stairs 

A special Ugoki! Bandcamp with their 2 albums - OJP047 and OJP067! 

SPACE 808 is a jazz combo of 5 musicians all involved in different avant garde/ contemporary / electronic jazz or even experimental bands. The purpose of their music is first to find back the concept of human origins and the universe in a space like soundtrack that they built from scratch through very long live 15 to 25 minutes improvisations. The music is then edited in various tracks. It can take time to enter in their universe but once you're drown in their music you may recall the common consciousness of all human beings and all living things that have been in us since we were born. Space jazz to float in your mind! The final track is a very introspective close encounter with the famous George Gershwin song 'Summertime'. 

Dimentional Stairs new album was recorded on January 19, 2022 at Nakano Pignose in Tokyo. 5 long tracks that navigate through ambient experimental space jazz. The sax, the guitar and the piano weave a spiritual fabric that make you float in your mind while the rhythm section bring a smooth but solid texture. The whole performance is again a total improvisation but a steady and thrilling one! An album that you can listen over again and again and always discover something new, being sounds or spirit! Enjoy!

credits

Sax : Hiroshi Nakamura 
Guitar : Taku Tajima 
Piano : Eisuke Kato 
Contrabass : Noboru Ando 
Drums : Hiroto Uezi

Bandcamp: 

OUI006 : Paul Dunmall - Faith Brackenbury - Tony Bianco - John Pope / Sentient Beings

 

Cover art by Kathryn Preston

OUI006 : Paul Dunmall - Faith Brackenbury - Tony Bianco - John Pope / Sentient Beings 

When four friends reunited after a few cover years to celebrate John Coltrane and come out after a heavy improvising session with a powerful album!

Faith about the album:

"On 23rd September 2022, anniversary of John Coltrane’s birthday, we got together in a hilltop studio in rural Shropshire to record. It was our first meeting as this quartet. Tony came up with the title ‘Sentient Beings’ because of the camaraderie around our meeting and he and Paul haven’t been able to meet up for a few years. The unreserved outpouring of spontaneous music was full of fire, sensitivity and passion."

Paul Dunmall: Sax (bio)
Faith Brackenbury: Violin and viola (bio)
Tony Bianco: Drums (see also OCD049, bio)

John Poe: Double bass (bio)

Paul Dunmall

Tony Bianco and Faith Brackenbury

John Pope

Good review for the Sentient Beings album in The New-York City Jazz Records:

Digital release on the 14th of April 2023.

The band made a cd as well.

Track listing:

1: As it was - 19:50 minutes

2: Is now - 23:28 minutes

3: Ever shall be - 17:32 minutes

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/sentient-beings

And on Bandcamp: 

You can also order the cd here: faith.brackenbury@gmail.com 

OUI008 : Daniele Morelli / Ars Musica

 

Cover art by Daniele Morelli

OUI00 8: Daniele Morelli / Ars Musica

Third album from Mexico based Italian jazz guitarist Daniele Morelli.

What he says about his album:

"In the beginning was Rhythm and rhythm was in my mind when I started the album.
I wanted to record just myself exploring a lot of potential sounds of my electric guitar and 
let the ideas flow by themselves.
The songs were driven by my emotions, not by chords progressions or story telling but only
by rhythms and melodies.
This led me to explore an infinite variety of sounds and noises on my guitar that were the base and soundscape for each song.
Each song is dedicated to a different god or goddess of creativity, art and music who have inspired humans all over the world. Enjoy! "

Marimba:

Daniele Morelli: all guitars

Digital release on the 7th of April 2023.

Track listing:

It

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/ars-musica

And on Bandcamp:

ODG172 : Nühn / Computer Band

 

Cover art by Julio Gutiérrez aka Nühn

ODG172 : Nühn / Computer Band

-Computer Band- 

Recreation of drums synthesys figured like real band members, three tracks expressing the vertiginous fact that drums could sound in a computer sequential works. 

Electroacoustic music computered by several machines; (software plus hardware). The Mathematician process of construction beats, from zero to elevated value. 

Titled ironically to show how's nowadays electronic could have audio imagination 

This is a split label release with NühnRecords: https://nuhn.bandcamp.com/music

Written, produced, composed, performed & recorded by Julio Gutiérrez aka Nühn.
Mastered, mixed & processed at Scala Studio. Nühn's laboratory (Gerona) Spain.

Nühn

Digital release on the 05th of April 2023.

Track Listing:

1: Dead Singers

2: Riff Too Much

3: Drummers Around

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/computer-band

And on Bandcamp: