We are the shepherds fascinated by the first encounter with electrical light, electronic sound and space rocket. From the consideration of this attribute we should learn to fear and reverence God, Psalms 89:7. We are not the urban snobs rejecting music of the village. As he is a spirit, he is so omnipresent as not to be mixed with the creature, or divided, part in one place, and part in another nor is he multiplied or extended, but is essentially present every where. We do regard all this variety of them as a part of the one musicale culture of the space race, witch exists for million of years on our planet. This is how simple drum, flute, mouth harp turned into theremin, synthesizer and sampling sequencer. His album Omnipresence, released this summer, is a mixture of experimental electroacoustic sound and instruments with a cosmic oriental touch, kind of. Like Baghdub from O.M.F.O (Our Man From Odessa). Man have always tried to innovate their sound tools, turning them into more and more "sophisticated" musical instruments with mesmerizing sound qualities. Kicking off with a typical show not so structured or planned but with some fantastic new tunes. But in this journey we took bits and pieces of the sounds, songs and smells that we grew up with, projecting them on the screen of the new reality. And this is not just a mind trip this is a body journey - a journey from here to eternity. We are the crew of a spaceship that left our mother planet to search for the new worlds. This music is supposed to make us realize that our culture is a space culture, that we, earthlings are the children of Cosmos. By definition, space music cannot be limited just by the pulsating clicks and the bubbling electronic sounds. From the first sight an unimaginable fusion is going to be played life by five brave representatives of the human race. This is the cutting edge of pastoral music future sound of villages, including folk tunes of aliens and the favourite songs of the space mafia. Senor Coconut) and his most complete album "Omnipresence". Two more albums followed "We Are the Shepherds" co-produced by the legendary Atom(tm) (a.k.a. Productbeschrijving Omnipresence is een CD (ALBUM) van Omfo. His first album on the Essay Recordings label, Trans Balkan Express, put him in the international spotlight and none other than Borat has chosen two tracks from the album "Money Boney" and "Magic Mamaliga" for the soundtrack of his film. Whatever you call it, you're unlikely to hear anything quite like this anywhere else. In his music folk meets Kraftwerk, futurism meets folklore imaginaire or maybe call it "village disco" or "space folklore". With his bristling brain and cross-cultural crew of multifaceted musicians he boldly goes where none have thought to go before, travelling from the West to the East, from Amsterdam via Berlin to the hinterlands of the EU, the Carpathians, the Black Sea and into the front garden of Asia. The self-styled bandit in time and space, transforming ancient melodies into music for cosmonauts and spaceships, inventor of the sonic horoscope and tireless researcher into the question of the role of traditional cultures in the age of technologies. Our Man from Odessa is the master of crossover par excellence. A new dimension in Village Disco or Space Folklore
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |