OM Gossip #10
OM FEST 2021 next weekend!
Yes, it really will happen. Otomatik Muziek Labelfest will take place on the 24th & 25th of September in Nuremburg, Germany - day 1 at Desi Nürnberg, day 2 at Z-Bau Nürnberg. Shows start at 19.00, as curfew is 23.00, entry will be 6 - 8 Euros. 3G is the law and we’re pretty happy about that. No pre-sale tickets, but drop us a line if you want to be sure to get a ticket.
It’s been a ride - the festival should have already happened in June, but you know, the times are a-changing and we had to postpone. Sabrina Zeltner of graphic design studio Complex Pleasures did an amazing poster, and now, here we are:
So, here is the full line-up with hundreds of thousands of links for your pleasure:
Susanne Dundler aka Kirsche von Bubach is an interdisciplinary artist who moves back and forth somewhere between well-designed installations and naive sound experiments with childlike ease. Her first album "Change The Parameters A Little Bit", released on OM, is a minimalist gem that explores the possibilities of the Korg Microkorg and shows an astonishing sensitivity while doing so.
Nils Quak is a staunch dilettante and amateur. His sounds move between noise, improvisation and a bad acid trip in the New Age Ashram Gröbenzell. Sometimes rugged and angular, sometimes floating and light, Nils Quak works primarily with modular synthesizers. Nils Quak “lives” in Cologne. Nils has released more than 30 albums on labels around the globe, from Sacred Phrases to Ana Ott. On OM, he was one of the first artists to release a tape, 2018’s “Form Phallus Function”.
S.L.R. is yet another alias of Sisto Lee Rossi, aka The Wallkeeper aka Foxhole aka Vampire Squid… - a passionate producer of harsh noise. Being around since the early 00s, Sisto is as much into sound research as he is into sound as a full body experience as he is into 80s horror c-movies as he is one of the most humorous and unique humans you will ever meet. What Sisto himself says about S.L.R.: „Harsh Noise, Junk, Rust, Spit!“ - I guess it will be fun.
Fließgewässer from Spain is an autodidactic and fearless multi-instrumentalist who does not shy away from any instrument, but has an incredibly good feeling for organizing sounds and weaving a richly illustrated carpet of sound from them. His first album on OM, “Firat | Dîjla“, is a dark, elegiac amalgam of goth folk splinters, fourth world jazz and the dark, transcendent ambient that has been shaped by bands like Coil. On Insta you can see Fließgewässer now and then standing in the forest and playing Saz, recording field recordings and experimenting with tape loops.
For over a decade, Günter Schlienz has been creating meditative works of epic scope with an intimate, reflective response. His individual style stems from a love of experimentation, which is not only manifested in his compositions, but is also evident in the development of his own modular synthesizers and other electronic instruments. The "cosmic touch" is always present, despite that earthy and pastoral scenes are never far away. Ultimately, his music is equally characterized by joy, melancholy, nature and space. Günter has released music on Muzan Editions, Constellation Tatsu, Hangover Central Station and many others. Here’s a video of Günter’s collab album with Teresa Smolnik, executed by the notorious Keine Zeit Medien.
DRNTTCKS have the best website ever. They are in / active since 2010 and endeavor to evade the economy use of music in the best possible way. A wall of sound grows out of a hushed harmony miniature piece by piece - guitar layers, rattling, whirring, humming increase to a noise collage. Proto-acid sequences, arrhythmic dub loops, new age synth references, no-input noise, then electro-acoustic deep listening again. They sing seldom, but the titles, yes, absolutely: “Infinite Cop”, “Rudolf Steinar”, “Nazi Shamans Fuck Off” - attitude instead of sound autism. It is not about stringent melodies, not about pop, but about creating and exploring possibilities, opening up spaces and weaving them together. A process that does not end in closed units, but instead meanders through tonal structures. Btw: two new albums will surface in autumn. I’ve heard they call their music “techno” at the moment.
Within less than a year the Stuttgart improv / postjazz collective ZEBULARIN, centered around the two multi-instrumentalists Daniel Vujanic & Daniel Kartmann, released a handful of limited tapes (e.g. on Steep Gloss). The latest of them - Poisoned Healing (Panurus Productions) - beginning of June 2021. Stylistically, they move intuitively between cathartic freakout and meditative, electroacoustic minimalism, always on the meaningful search for unusual textures, spaces and singularities. The results remain complex and range from repetitive krautrock skeletons, electronic picture puzzles to plenty of toxic, doomy New Age blossoms.
Behind Buck Moon are Julian Flemming (Jeans Beast & operator of the Econore label) and Julius Ménard (who has also released numerous solo releases and is one half of Grisaille Records). The project is dedicated to researching the mood of the moon and the effects of this on the human psyche. For fans of Natural Snow Buildings, Charlambides, TwinSistermoon. As this will be one of the inaugural concerts of Buck Moon, no recorded output is available, but check out their works as Julius Menard on Grisaille and as Jeans Beast on Econore.
Oh and here’s a Spotify playlist of loads of stuff released on OM - check it out and then, see you in the weirdness next weekend!
End transmission #10.
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