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The fourth full length album of Orchestra of Constants Distress, Concerns marks the end of a quadruple suite of intense, dissonant, reluctant improvisation. Looking back on five years of musical summits, which also has resulted in a couple of cassette releases and a live LP from Roadburn Festival, one might wonder if these musicians have come to some form of insight. Riffs seems to have deepened into complete compulsiveness as the rhythm from drummer Anders Bryngelsson (Brainbombs, No Balls) deliver both frustration and caution at the same time. Between the dissonant sounds of Henrik Rylander (Union Carbide Productions, Skull Defekts) and the choleric play style by guitarist Joachim Nordwall (Idealist, Skull Defekts) a way of emotional vacuity is spreading. With the phlegmatic and elemental bass of Henrik Andersson (visual artist) the music of OOCD is a montage of soundscapes rather than the uniform of compositions. Rather than seeking a musical presence through improvisation they seem to perform absence and void. Orchestra of Constant Distress are: Joachim Nordwall (The Skull Defekts, iDEAL Recordings), Anders Bryngelsson (Brainbombs, No Balls), Henrik Rylander (The Skull Defekts, Union Carbide Productions), Henrik Andersson. Edition of 300; includes download code.
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Orchestra Of Constant Distress (OOCD) add two live recordings to their oeuvre of audio documents. A limited black vinyl LP from Roadburn Festival, Tilburg 2019 and a cassette from Fylkingen, Stockholm the same year. A listener might wonder what the concept of "live" means in relationship to this work since there is little evidence of any interest towards the living in this musical operation. The ridged riffs and non-conform sounds seem rather to have its origin in phase of audio regression. Perhaps this is a result from earlier unconscious trauma as the band members have experiences from Skull Defekts, Union Carbide Productions, and Brainbombs. Gloss finished sleeve includes download code; edition of 300.
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Orchestra Of Constant Distress is: Joachim Nordwall (The Skull Defekts, iDEAL Recordings), Anders Bryngelsson (Brainbombs, No Balls) Henrik Rylander (The Skull Defekts, Union Carbide Productions), and Henrik Andersson. One core dynamism within the field of music is the relationship between performer and spectator. The audience listen and watch the musicians enjoying themselves and through that they get an experience of joy. This requires a system of believing where organized sound can be recognized, and is therefore music as such. Upon listening to Orchestra Of Constant Distress's third album, you might want to question this meaning of tonality. Through catatonic riffs and uncanny sounds, listeners are left with a situation where they do not know how to distinguish bad and good, pleasure from displeasure. Orchestra Of Constant Distress seems to be moving beyond their decent from such bands as Brainbombs, The Skull Defekts and Union Carbide Productions towards a tension of disbelief. Includes download code; Edition of 300.
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In the field of music or any contemporary cultural terrain, concepts like development dynamics and progression are used as aesthetic judgement. To any musician or composer, the idea of musical build up comes with a crisis, any attempt towards formal pleasure calls for suspicion that this desire is never one's own. In the case of Orchestra Of Constant Distress, this deadlock manifests itself in an impulse of refusal directed against any evolution and the result is the extreme generic and the absolute distress of normative noise and improvisation. Members with such experiences from The Skull Defekts, Union Carbide Productions, Brainbombs, and No Balls are joined in assemblage of catatonic sounds, obstinate riffs, and rigid rhythms. Orchestra Of Constant Distress is: Joachim Nordwall (The Skull Defekts, iDEAL Recordings), Anders Bryngelsson (Brainbombs, No Balls), Henrik Rylander (The Skull Defekts, Union Carbide Productions), and Henrik Andersson. Housed in a 350gsm printed sleeve; Includes download code; Edition of 300.
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