ODX008 : Chaos of the Haunted Spire / Retail Jedi (Live at Trix - Live at Het Bos - Book, Vol.1)

Drawing by Bert Lezy, lay out by Dera Pigs

ODX008 : Chaos of the Haunted Spire / Retail Jedi (Live at Trix - Live at Het Bos - Book, Vol.1)

Finally available as one digital box, the three amazing albums fro Chaos of the Haunted Spire (see ORT010, ORT012 and ORT014)! 

Fronted by Teun Verbruggen (FES and so many others) and Andrew Claes (STUFF / Brzzvll, Internal Sun ODG048)  and invited guest musicians (Pierre Vervloesem, Sickboy Milkplus...) in their search of the ultimate improvisation frontier !

original covers:

Live at Trix

Live at Het Bos

 Book, Vol.1

A video Live at Het Bos with Bert Lezy doing the cover:




Digital release on the 26th of February 2016

Track listing:

CD1: Live at Trix (1 to 5)/ Live at Het Bos (the rest):

1: Djez (feat. Sickboy Milkplus, Pierre Vervloesem)

2: Schpluf (feat. Sickboy Milkplus, Pierre Vervloesem)

3: Crjyz (feat. Sickboy Milkplus, Pierre Vervloesem)

4:  123 Piano (feat. Sickboy Milkplus, Pierre Vervloesem)

5: TSCHHH (feat. Sickboy Milkplus, Pierre Vervloesem)

6: Raarrr (feat. Teun Verbruggen, Andrew Claes, Pierre Vervloesem, Jurgen Desmet, Mirco Banovic)

7: Telefoon! (feat. Teun Verbruggen, Andrew Claes, Pierre Vervloesem, Jurgen Desmet, Mirco Banovic)

8: For S.P. (feat. Teun Verbruggen, Andrew Claes, Pierre Vervloesem, Jurgen Desmet, Mirco Banovic)

9: For A.T. (feat. Teun Verbruggen, Andrew Claes, Pierre Vervloesem, Jurgen Desmet, Mirco Banovic)

10: Pinball (feat. Teun Verbruggen, Andrew Claes, Pierre Vervloesem, Jurgen Desmet, Mirco Banovic)

11: Black Bossa (feat. Teun Verbruggen, Andrew Claes, Pierre Vervloesem, Jurgen Desmet, Mirco Banovic)

12: Ruhig (feat. Teun Verbruggen, Andrew Claes, Pierre Vervloesem, Jurgen Desmet, Mirco Banovic)

13: Begrenst (feat. Teun Verbruggen, Andrew Claes, Pierre Vervloesem, Jurgen Desmet, Mirco Banovic)

CD2: Book, Vol.1 (feat.Teun Verbruggen and Andrew Claes):

1: Duke Bound by the Ever-Changing Marsh 

2: Forgotten Inquisitor That Rules in the Manse and Is Immersed in Enchantment

3: The Grandfather of Perfection and Snares

4: The Fourth Vermillion King Who Steals Dissolution

5: Screaming Duke 

6: The Courageous Dark Bodyguard Who Steals the Traitor

7: Eighth Infernal Sultanna of Enchantments and Magnificence

8: Third Blasphemous Grandfather That Gambles in the Titanic Pit

9: The Infamous Wicked Sleeper Who Betrays Fortune

10: Voulge of Bronze

11: Clock of Thunder

12: Perfection of the Purple Temple

13: The Angry Tsar with Eyes of Turquoise Who Abandoned the Ensorceled Citadel

14: The Seventh Wicked Hero of Atrocity and Magnificence 

15: Javelin of the Tunnels

16: OK Dan

ODX006 : The Camping Group / So wie wir heute dastehn - Vertrauen & Wohlstand

Cover art by A.L.

ODX006 : The Camping Group / So wie wir heute dastehn - Vertrauen & Wohlstand 

Finally available as a digital box, the two released album by The Camping Group (see ODG015 and ODG016).

The Camping Group (tCG) is Daniel Vujanic, the man behind so many different projects such as Baja (see ODX005), Nervous Lovers ( ODG001: Corpes for the Discodawn ), Ixtar, Gaop, Höhlenmusik or Mutterberg and his long time good friend Johannes Finke.

The band was founded in Stuttgart and is now based between Stuttgart (Vujanic) and Berlin (Finke).

They know each other since they were young teens playing Tennis and listening to Terence Trent D'Arbys "Wishing Well". Three Years later they ended up watching Babes In Toyland and began to talk seriously. They started producing Art in many ways, exhibitions, books, records, having

a publishing company, working on plays and installations throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Johannes says about the band: " tCG is just bringing it together, for a small unique piece of unity and friendship. We are both collecting artefacts of life so working in tCG is sharing it all and earning this moments of pure awareness and revolutionary thoughts."

The CD1 is a compilation of their first released album and remixes/bonus tracks that were never released before. CD2 is their second album.
Original covers, artwork by Kiekebiche:

German pop at his best! Never before you had such a final mix of pop, hip-hop, post-rock, electro and future funk in one band. Daniel Vujanic one more time strikes with his originality and creativity! It's a hit!

More about tCG: www.dieneuengesetze.tumblr.com

More about Daniel Vujanic: Discogs bio

More about Johannes Finke: www.dasbiestberlin.blogspot.com

Digital release on the 19th of February.

Track listing:

CD1:
1) 1000 Jahre (remix)
2) Vertrauen & Wohlstand (Humanismus remix)
3) Null Null Europa
4) Regenbrauen
5) Wellengang
6) Seemanslied (remix)
7) Azoth
8) Feuerball
9) Alles Bleibt Nichts Geht (schädlings remix)
10) Dreckwasser Dub
11) Humanistenhorde / Jakobsmusghelweg
12) Wir Sind (geld funktionert)

CD2:
1) König
2) Die Neuen Gesetze
3) Schwerer Elefant
4) Wo Ist Heaven?
5) Woodstock
6) Immer Noch
7) Der Vollständigkeit Halber
8) Seemannslied
9) Fantasy Filmfest Girls
10) Party In den Dünen
11) Von Drei Mal Rot Zur Methode
12) Triumph Ist Trumpt
13) Was Macht
14) Du Bist Nur Ein Instrument
15) Trabanten Dub
16) Das Beben ( Treptow Zeitloch)

OJP004 : Léo Dupleix / Signs

Photography by Margot Becka

OJP004 : Léo Dupleix / Signs

Léo Dupleix is an electronic musician, piano player, mainly working in the improvised and experimental fields.

Born in Paris (1988), graduated from Brussels Royal Conservatory (master degree in piano Jazz) and currently living in Tokyo, Japan. 

He uses electronic devices, computer, mixing board, pianet (electric piano from the 70’s), synthesizers, field recordings to create his music, and in parallel continue to devellop his own sound on the acoustic piano.

He is interested in both fields of improvisation with other musicians/artists or in solo, and composition. 

He is also playing the Pianet in the rock improv unit « Tandaapushi ».

He played/ collaborated with: Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Naoto Yamagishi, Pak Yan Lau, Lauri Hyvarinen, Ura Hiroyuki, Seijiro Murayama, , Laurens Smet, Yuji Ishihara, Kayu Nakada, Tomoyoshi Date , Louis Evrard, Kou Katsuyoshi, Rabito Arimoto, Daisuke Takaoka, Seppe Gebruers,, Akemi Nagao… among others.

Léo Dupleix

Digital release on the 12th of February 2016.

Track listing:

1: Champs

2: Eglise mouillée

3: Sine

4: Bulbe

5: Fi

6: 47

7: Semi

And on Bandcamp:

ODX005 : Baja / Maps - Systemalheur - V

Cover art by A.L.

ODX005 : Baja / Maps - Systemalheur - V

Second (originally released on Stilll) and fifth (see ODG018) album from German master Daniel Vujanic under the name of Baja (discography). A mixture of pot-rock, avant-jazz, pop and German beats... a final way to discover this great talent!

A review of Maps / Systemalheur at the time:

Do not try to classify this release. It is impossible. So many boundaries are crossed through this album, so many genres and emotions... Glitch, electronica, jazz ? You may think of The Books in its approach of freedom.   
"It's not that Maps/Systemalheur resists being brainy. It's just that the intellectualism at work in Baja's music is located in the listening, detected in the way it emotes intelligently rather than intelligently references emotion. By making process and reward one in the same, mirroring the obstinacy and arbitrary nature of human emotions, Vujanic is using electronic music in a way that makes it less a statement about media or a contemporary discussion about subverting conventional songwriting than a tool of matter-of-factness; Vujanic is a Apollonian fully aware of the necessity of his Dionesian counterpart, returning us to a more fundamental discussion about how words may never encapsulate what it is we want to say, or how music makes us feel."  From Coke machine glow.com

as for V:

V is focusing on melody, musicianship, dynamics and atmosphere rather than on the display of postproduction wizardry or editing abilities. The 10 new compositions feature a warm and quite intimate pop-feel as well as the notorious jazz/ambient/folk/electronica  infested prog-post-rock, teaming up in order to create a kaleidoscopic, playful and at times even anthemic album full of surprises which surely acts as an epitaph as well as a shining pinnacle in vujanic´s work as Baja.

Featuring Daniel Kartmann (drums, vibes), Heiner Stilz (woodwinds), Berna Walter (strings) and Niels Roskamp (drums), some of the songs could even give you the feeling of listening to a jam between XTC and The Sea and Cake.

It's a must!

The original cover of Maps / Systemalheur:

Cover art by Jérôme Deuson

and V:

Cover art by Kiekebiche

Digital box release on the 5 of February 2016 at a bargain price.

CD1: Maps / Systemalheur

1: Maps (Fake Starts and False Alarms) / [Maps]

2: Meet Me at the Bridge (Don't Forget the Money aka Jugo Tropico) / [Maps]

3: Anatomy and Variation / [Maps]

4: Balkan Express, Pt. 3 / [Maps]

5: Insularidade / [Maps]

6: Small Scales /[Maps]

7: C'mon Roxy / [Maps]

8: Breakfast with Hostages (Anatomy and Variation Revisited) [Maps]

9: Noises in Between

10: Droma Waves (For History's Aroma) / [Systemalheur]

11; Realphabetizations / [Systemalheur]

12: Nona's Theme / [Systemalheur]

13: Systemalheur / [Systemalheur]

14: The Final Night of the Glimmercities / [Systemalheur]

15: Kamengrad (Mile & Deva) / [Systemalheur]

CD2: V

1: Arataxia

2: Tourist Damages

3: Double Betrayal Triple Fantasy

4: Echelon 

5: With Animal Eyes 

6: Motten Dub

7: The Future Ruins

8: Phosphoraneum

9: All We Need Is a Fire

10: XL Avis

ODG047 : Daniele Morelli / Mision Azul

ODG047 : Daniele Morelli / Mision Azul

Mision Azul is a jazz album inspired by and dedicated to Mexico.

The mood, the arrangements and the color of the tunes are based on the emotions and reflexions coming from a big town like Mexico city to the lost jungle in the south and the indigenous communities in Chiapas.

Blue is the connecting color of the tracks as it was the sacred color of the Mayas. 

Composed and arranged by Italian guitarist Daniele Morelli who is spending most of his time living and playing all over Mexico, Mision Azul was recorded with a band of musicians from Mexico, El Salvador, Panama and Chile. 

An interesting mix of European and South-American Jazz cultures giving birth to a very emotional album of traditionally and contemporary jazz music.

Enjoy!

Daniele Morelli-Pic by Pablo Barreiro

Daniele Morelli was born in Tuscany and began to study piano at the age of 7 and guitar at the age of 11.

He used to listen and play a lot of blues from a very early age although improvisation was always a way to approach any style of music when playing with different projects.

One of his first band was Milvus, a progressive rock band which was touring in Italy and Hollande.

Subsequently, he moved to France to study in the Conservatoire de Lyon, then to Brussel where jazz was an everyday appointment. 

He played with his own quartet and others projects between France, Belgium, Hollande and Italy for a while before moving in Mexico City where he is based now.

A nice review in UK Vibe here:

"Italian guitarist Daniele Morelli provides a breath of fresh air on “Misión Azul”; a gentle mix of Western European and South American jazz flavours. Composed and arranged by Morelli, the guitarist recorded this album along with a band of musicians from Mexico, El Salvador, Panama and Chile. The combination of these cultures gives rise to a lovely sounding album, where subtlety and grace win the day. Born in Tuscany, Morelli is a well-travelled musician who clearly brings out some fine moments, musically speaking, from the places he has visited. Initially Morelli focussed on the blues, his jazz chops following later. He participated in the Atmaniam orchestra, playing world music, especially that of Africa, India and Turkey, before later joining several projects playing blues and gypsy music. Moving to France, he entered the Conservatory National de Lyon, studying jazz guitar. He currently lives between Amsterdam, Brussels and Mexico, performing with various jazz groups. There’s a cool, laid-back feel to his playing that suggests a willingness to take on board the many influences from his journeying and learning.

“Misión Azul” is inspired by, and dedicated to Mexico. The title track sums up the mood well, where a subtle and clean guitar is soon met with South American percussion, before the tune develops nicely with the melody provided by a light and airy tenor saxophone. Throughout the album the guitar and sax take turns to create melody with a lyrical puissance, often interchanging, yet happily never vying for attention. “Chiapas e Nuvole (1)” enjoys a joyous sense of hospitality; imagine taking a seat in a street cafe on a warm sunny day, with a cool drink and the subtle colours and textures of a jazz quartet drifting in on a gentle breeze… Morelli has a knack of letting the music gradually gain your attention in a sweet way, never abrasive of asking for attention, just…there. Technically and emotionally at home with the music he writes and performs, “Regreso Lacando” beggins with a short guitar intro, with the tune developing into the kind of sound one would imagine hearing as the distant sun goes down, disappearing behind the mountains. If I had to pick a favourite track from this album, it would be “Popocatepetl”. There’s such a cool vibe to this tune, partly created by the groove of the bass and drums, with the percussion swimming nicely in and out of the river of musicality. But it is the sax, and especially Morelli’s wonderful guitar that sing out on this tune. Think late night jazz club in a Mexican setting, where most of the crowd have dispersed, and the indigenous people sit around drinking and chatting, enjoying the luscious sounds drifting in the air.

There are a few changes of pace along the way, with some welcome piano on the odd tune mixing things up a bit, but overall it’s a fairly easy listening album, not that there’s anything wrong in that at all. The only challenge here is finding a sunny spot to sit and listen, undisturbed, where I can enjoy the music whilst watching the world go by."

Mike Gates

Digital release on the 29th of January 2016.

Track listing:

1 - Pez de madera  5.46

2 - Mision azul 8.17

3 - Ya!! 6.27

4 - Chiapas e nuvole 7.35     

5 - Regreso Lacandon 9.42

6 - El vuelo del quetzal 3.48

7 - Popocatepetl 8.20

8 - Chiapas e nuvole (alternative take) 7.57

9 - Falta de agua 7.48

total: 63.40

musicians: track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 recorded in Mexico City in La Casa del Arbol by Juan Pablo Aispuro

Arturo Baez - double bass  (Mexico)

Fernando Barrios - drums  (El Salvador)

Jahaziel Arrocha - tenor sax (Panama)

Daniele Morelli - guitar (Italia)

Luis Miguel Costero - tablas on track 2 and 7 (Mexico)

musicians on track 8 ad 9 recorded in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico in 

CultivarteStudio by Javier Velasco Gaona

Romeo Ramos - bass (Mexico)

Abraham Calderon - drums (Mexico)

Roberto Blanco - piano (Mexico)

Cristian Mendoza - soprano sax (Chile)

Daniele Morelli - guitar 

Mastering at Magnetic Bull Studio by Lino Sestini

And in Bandcamp:

OJP003 : Wananabani-en ワナナバニ園 / Wani No Niwa

 Cover art: Tadashi Kumada

OJP003 : Wananabani-en ワナナバニ園 / Wani No Niwa

Wananabani Garden (Wananabani En in Japanese) is a Japanese experimental rock/pop instrumental combo who includes two bass guitars, drums and unique eletric handmade musical instruments Kaisatsuko and Ribbon Controller.

The band was formed in 2010 by musicians who are active in a variety of musical projects in Tokyo. 

At first, they were playing completely improvised music but quickly started to compose music of their own. Their background includes rock, pop, jazz, funk, progressive, alternative, math rock, ethnic, dance, contemporary music, free improvisation and so on. 

The compositions consist of poly-rhythm, irregular bars and unique melodic/chord progressions. The band doesn’t play so much chords because of their instrument characteristics. 

It is, if anything, gathered monophonic lines. Nevertheless, this constraint brings their own emptyness. Their goal is to compose odd/bizarre tunes yet pop/danceable music. 

In late of 2013, they completed their 1st album called "Wani no Niwa (Garden of Alligators)". 

They often have gigs mainly in Tokyo. 

Web Site : Wananabani-en

Band members:

Tadashi Kumada - Drums:

Born in Kanagawa, 1964. Leader and song writer of the band. Started his musical career in early 1980's. He has played in many bands like Gal's Attachment, Copass Grinderz hi-speed, Shuttle Loop, Gnu among others. He constantly appears in the "Morgana experimental laboratory" -  an improvisation music party presided by legendary Japanese rock musician Hiroshi Higo. His compositions are often made full use of poly-rhythmic structure, but he also likes playing the drums freely in bands. 

ALI - Fender Bass:

Born in Osaka, 1969. He became conscious of rhythm in a  local festival called Danjiri. In 1992, he came in Tokyo and started his musical career playing in many bands like The Skullaberrys, Deep Count and Hamonigon. In this band, he mainly plays basic bass line with conventional bass sound. His playing has brought stability to the band.

Yukiya Taneishi - 5 Strings Bass:

Born in Shizuoka, 1970. He started a career of bass player since 1990, playing in many bands like Eric Jacobsen BAND, Gnu, Time Steppers, E-unit. In this band, he mainly plays distorted/modulated bass by using many effect pedals. But he also plays conventional bass with ALI. In spite of two bass lines , their sounds superpose each other beautifully and interestingly. 

Yuichi Onoue - Kaisatsuko and Ribbon Controller

Born in Tokyo, 1969. Started his musical activity since 1980 as a guitar and synthesizer player. Soon after that, he also started to develop effect units and electric handmade musical instruments. His main achievements of development are Kaisatsuko (Electric two strings original instrument) and Ribbon Controller( originally, it was made as an alternative interface of Moog synthesizer in late 60's) which are played in this band. He explores a variety of sounds and music of all ages and all world. He writes songs and plays both improvised and composed music, both solo or in different bands. 

-----

About Yuichi Onoue's electric handmade instruments.

Kaisatsuko:

Electric two strings upright fiddle made in 2003. It is not performed with a bow. The rotating wheel (which is rotated by his handling) rubs strings and makes sound like Hurdy-Gurdy. 

The translation of the word is as follows: 

Kai = Rotation    Satsu = Rub    Ko = Oriental fiddle

See here for detail: kaisatsuko

-----

Ribbon Controller

Electric musical instrument which can change an oscillator pitch smoothly, depending on the place which you press down. Ribbon Controller was originally made as a kind of MOOG SYNTHESIZER's controller in late 60's. Yuichi made this following MOOG’s example and self learned to play it.

See here for detail: Ribbon Controller

A video of 'Taru':



'Still Life':



'Dill':



Digital release on the 22d of January 2016.

Track listing:

1: Bum
2: Hafu
3: Dill
4: Ukigumo
5: Aita
6: Still Life
7: Taru Wo Miteita
8: Instant Beetle



And on Bandcamp:

OJP002 : Tetsuroh Konishi / Nanso ( feat.Okuni )

OJP002 : Tetsuroh Konishi / Nanso ( feat.Okuni )

Second release on the new Japanese series is Nanso.
Nanso (軟蘇の法) means 'formally / literally' in Japanese.

Japanese trumpet player Tetsuroh Konishi recorded this 38m track for OKUNI. 

Okuni's Haruka Kobayashi is a master of Nanso, a therapy based on renowned Zen master Hakuin who lived 200 years ago. 

Eastern medicine gives great importance to the idea of discharging all the bad things through the bottom of the foot.

In an actual exercise, one imagines that a luminous ball falls down to his head from the universe and that Nanso gradually melt down due to his body heat. 

All the bad things are embraced with the light of Nanso, purified, and discharged through the bottom of the foot at the end.

That's all for the way of doing it, but it is surprisingly effective.
Why would you ask? Simply because this is how the nature works.
It seems that the ancient Chinese people also used this method to rebalance the body energy.

As Haruka Kobayashi quotes:
"The sound of this album should resonate with your body along with the image of the light.
It is a monotonous repeat of the sound, but at the end of the song you will find yourself breathe deeply and easily.
The bad vibes in your body will be gone and you will feel re-energized.
I would recommend that you enjoy this more as resonance rather than music." 

 Tetsuroh Konishi

Haruka Kobayashi

A live video of their work:



Digital release on the 8th of January 2016.

Track listing:

1: Nanso (38min.)

Limited edition of cds available.

Prices

World shipping €15,00 EUR