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| | Artist : oval | |
| | Album : Oh | |
| | Label : Thrill Jockey Source : WEB MP3 | |
| | Cat. No. : THRILL12.44 Size : 66.30 MB | |
| | Genre : Electronic StrDate: 2010-06-00 | |
| | Quality : 320kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2010-06-15 | |
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| | It's been nine years since Markus Popp released his last album as | |
| | Oval (2001's Ovalcommers), a length of time that's seen the | |
| | electronic music world change dramatically. Famed for pioneering | |
| | all things "glitch", the Oval project began as a trio (originally | |
| | comprising Frank Metzger and Sebastian Oschatz) specialising in | |
| | the defacement and sabotage of CDs as a means for creating | |
| | ruptured digital narratives, full of intentional faults and | |
| | fissures. The outcome of these early experiments led to key | |
| | releases in the mid-nineties, in particular 'Systemisch' and '94 | |
| | Diskont', both of which transpired to be hugely influential | |
| | throughout the electronic music world, setting a template for all | |
| | the dissected, stammering aesthetics that flooded the rosters of | |
| | labels like Mille Plateaux, Raster Noton and Mego. Of course, the | |
| | musical climate has undergone massive changes since those days, | |
| | and correspondingly, Markus Popp has reinvented Oval as a | |
| | radically organic project that seems to be going out of its way | |
| | to take the opposite approach to that of prior works. As Popp | |
| | himself says: "after years of dissection and denial I wanted to | |
| | try making 'real' music for a change". While that might set alarm | |
| | bells ringing in certain corners of his fanbase, it should be | |
| | noted that Oval still sounds like Oval, it's just that on Oh it | |
| | all seems to be happening in real-time, and on conventional | |
| | instruments. 'Hey' makes for a fitting introduction to the new | |
| | sound, cycling through guitar-generated flurries of notes and | |
| | harmonics while clusters of percussive pops fire out a rhythmic | |
| | agenda. Before long organ chords and acoustic drums join in and a | |
| | very naturalistic, seemingly live instrumental piece reveals | |
| | itself. It's the clever use of stringed instrumentation that's at | |
| | the heart of the 'Oval-ness' of this record - there's surely | |
| | still some sort of signal-manipulating skullduggery afoot, but | |
| | who knows what it is and how it's done; the involvement of | |
| | computers remains a likelihood, but you'd be hard-pressed to work | |
| | out precisely what processes you're listening to. Perhaps the | |
| | clue is in the CΘleste Boursier-Mougenot sleeve art: for much of | |
| | the time (particularly during the shorter tracks on the B-side) | |
| | it does actually sound like you might be listening to a number of | |
| | small birds pecking at a Les Paul. Oh is a fittingly beautiful | |
| | and enigmatic comeback record for Oval, and happily, it won't be | |
| | too long before we get to hear more from the newly revamped | |
| | project. Next month sees the release of a double-CD volume, also | |
| | on Thrill Jockey - let's hope it maintains the standard set here. | |
| | Recommended. | |
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| | Tracklisting: | |
| | | |
| | 01. hey 4:13 | |
| | 02. hmmm 1:37 | |
| | 03. grrr 2:31 | |
| | 04. oh! 2:53 | |
| | 05. kastell 1:28 | |
| | 06. sediment 1:10 | |
| | 07. featurette 1:39 | |
| | 08. saas fairy 1:25 | |
| | 09. kastell 4 1:04 | |
| | 10. kasko 1:09 | |
| | 11. homesick 1:06 | |
| | 12. tricot 0:52 | |
| | 13. locria 1:14 | |
| | 14. nonfiction 1:27 | |
| | 15. happyend II 1:15 | |
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