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OXE 005LP
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Quandary is a work of electronic music that wants to balance between opposites -- nature and technology, human agency and artificial thinking, ritual and machinery. That's how quandaries emerge, as an impossible choice between two extremes. But music isn't binary thinking and allows the exploration of obscure connections. Underground, a growing mycelium intersects and communicates with a fiber optic backbone: on the surface, the curtains open, and the quandary may begin to dissolve. Produced in Berlin between 2019 and 2021, the album originates from open jams, which were then deconstructed through heavy editing -- and finally recomposed, sometimes challenging the original spirit. Bob Meanza's oblique approach to music production encompasses the creative textures of guitarist Alex Baboian, and is enriched by the vocal appearances of Bianca Guitton. A small orchestra of three that already implies roots in Germany, Italy, USA, Armenia, and France -- each musician carrying him/herself the "quandary" of having at least two homes. But again, this unexpected network can bring precious fruits to the surface. 180 gram vinyl.
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OXE 004LP
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A journey back in time, maybe thousands of years ago, somewhere in the isolated islands of Melanesia. Here, just like a sound alchemist, Roberto Musci transforms organic nature elements into a unique sound performance of self-estrangement. In the artists' laboratory, you will discover a melting pot of ancestral ceremonial sounds collided with contemporary chamber music and experimental-electronic methods based on music research. Among these, ethnical music of the populations of Kanaki, Itamul, Kaluli, Niugini, Abelam, Huli, Enga unconventionally search for an intrinsic connection between humankind and music, part of life since the dawn of times. Several studies have highlighted in the DNA of the people of Melanesia genetic traits that trace their origins back to the man of Neanderthal and Denisova (about 70,000 years ago). Their isolation has preserved primitive culture and, perhaps, music. Roberto Musci composed Melanesia based on the Plunderphonics technique mixing traditional ethnic music with contemporary chamber music and concrete music. Cover artwork created by Giuseppe Lo Schiavo. Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering. 180 gram vinyl.
Roberto Musci is an Italian music composer, performer, saxophonist and guitar player, born in 1956 in Milan, Italy. From 1974 to 1985 he traveled around the world to research African, Indian, Near East, and Far East music. During his travels, he recorded on-field music, studied and collected ethnic music instruments from across many countries and cultures. His LP Water Messages On Desert Sand composed and performed with Giovanni Venosta was Grammy-nominated in the UK in 1987. Roberto Musci released LPs and CDs with many European labels, including Raw Material, Island Records, Music from Memory, and Recommended Records. He collaborated with musicians and researchers from all over the world, composed and performed music for films, live soundtracks for silent movies, audio-video installations, poems, dance, and theatre. The artist puts together live recordings of tribal ethnic music of indigenous people from the Pacific islands of Melanesia, performed with the body and with archaic instruments. Along with these, contemporary chamber music collides with the sea, wind, rain, thunderstorms of the Melanesian islands, modified according to the techniques of concrete music, in homage to Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, two of the artists who shaped his way of experiencing sound.
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OXE 003LP
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My Life With M. -- an organic contact with sound where theatre and music could be perceived as a tool for the creation of a distant dream. Oliver Doerell's sonorities transpose a nostalgia for something never met or somewhere never been, an osmosis of absence and memory interrupted by scattered fragments of abstraction. The album reveals Oliver Doerell's artistic collaboration with German-Iranian dancer and choreographer Modjgan Hashemian. All pieces are reworked compositions for theater plays from 2008 to 2018. A wide acoustic spectrum is built throughout the merge of home-made instruments, electro-acoustic and digital means. The artist is subtly mastering sound textures, distortions, altered frequencies, voice insertions, and blends reality and mysticism into his unique soundscape. The founding member of Dictaphone and SWOD, Oliver Doerell (aka Cummi Flu) releases the first album under his artist name and invites the listener to contemplate and to discover another one of his artistic personas. Grab a comfortable chair and enjoy the audition. 180 gram vinyl; edition of 400.
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OXE 001EP
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Prelude EP is the inceptive release of Oxmose, a dialogue between two composers; a conversation that traces the line between abstract, electronic experimentalism, and glittering interpretive jazz. Parisian producer Shcaa takes control of Side A with "Core"; a near 20 minutes exploration into sound, which skirts the fringes of avant-garde minimalism and experimental rhythms. Side B sees Romanian artist Traian Chereches offer up an absorbing counterpoint to Shcaa's opener on "Cage". The energy of Chereches' rebuttal fuses organic and interpretive sounds into a deft jazz reinterpretation, revealing a wide and surprising cinematic ambience.
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OXE 002EP
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Coypu, a collaborative project by Alex Smoke and Maarten Vos marks the second release of Oxmose catalog. The EP is comprised of four electro-acoustic pieces of a subtly beautiful execution, governed by the contrast between the bright and the obscure. Coypu reveals a sound odyssey that is transposing from darkened electronic vibrancies to hypnotic neo classical patterns. The EP is discreetly touching hidden dissonant atmospheres, nostalgic tones of cello, while also unveiling vibrant electronic resonances and grotesque texture distractions.
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