Dec 3, 2021
https://hellacomet.bandcamp.com/album/umpteeeeeee
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https://hellacomet.bandcamp.com/album/umpteeeeeee
Maja Osojnik - Let Them Grow
An anthroposophical striptease of the soul, between dystopian chansons, primordial mantras, and musique concrète—both timeless and masterful.
After fourteen band albums that range from old to new music, improvised to experimental, folklore to industrial, Maja Osojnik is releasing her first solo album LET THEM GROW, in which she searches for the simple song that combines all of these elements both in herself and in its sound.
Each sound on Osojnik’s album is carefully generated and uniquely de-familiarized, for example by using so-called “rejects,” which she compiles in a library of broken sound scraps. This collection consists of the results of digital gaffes and faulty processing, unintentionally distorted, overmodulated, or phase-delayed. “I am partial to what isn’t approved by society—that which has been broken.” In the ether of LET THEM GROW, these rejects are re-generated, they are given context, they expand to become the substance of Osojnik’s songs.
On her first solo album, Maja Osojnik locks horns in solitude, surrounded by electrical sliding roofs, seagulls, turbo jet engines, pelting rain, ping-pong balls, feedback loops, and forlorn, strangely out-of-tune pianos. Pulsating drones and cascading sound clusters oscillate until they are violently disrupted by angular, trashy beats or sound miniatures made of hyperactive, machinelike breathing. Situated somewhere between analog and digital art, between virtual and real spaces, Osojnik uses her voice, her Paetzold bass recorder, and numerous perplexing sound objects, radios, and field recordings to weave a dramatic work of art, at once dark and soft.
The Striggles/BulBul/Peter Ablinger/Option/Bernhard Lang/Kreisky Schizo Box (Rock Is Hell) Five 7" singles in cardboard box with printed fold out sleeve. Artwork by Edda Strobl and Helmut Kaplan. More details here.
My favorite song right now.
Nate Denver's Neck Swan Lake (Rock Is Hell) 10" release pressed on orange vinyl, printed in an edition of 300. All scuffs, tears and bits of Sellotape are fake, printed as part of the sleeve design (it's hard to tell in the photos). Art and concept credited to Costuros the Good, aka Paul Costuros.