[BD016] 12“ LP, CD & digital
Nabelóse – OMOKENTRO

Elena Kakaliagou – voice, french horn
Ingrid Schmoliner – voice, prepared piano

Label: bohemian drips
Release date – CD & DIGITAL: September 30th 2022
Release date – VINYL: January 2023 (due to long delivery times)
Cat-#: BD016 | Labelcode: 96928

Genre: Minimal Music, Neue Musik, Experimental, Improvisation, Avantgarde

Video teaser: https://youtu.be/J4rv53KVuNc
Interview at Speicher IV festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ7-uac01yM

Buy here: https://bohemiandrips.de/shop/bd016-nabelose-omokentro/

“OMOKENTRO” is the second release of Ingrid Schmoliner and Elena Kakaliagou’s “Nabelóse“ that sees them blend their voices with the sounds of the former’s prepared piano and the latter’s French horn. Recorded in the big water reservoir in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg as part of the fourth edition of bohemian drips’ “Speicher – festival for site-specific music“ in 2020, this LP captures a one-of-a-kind performance, influenced both by the surroundings’ idiosyncratic acoustics as well as by two very different social environments—with and without an audience. Spanning over 45 minutes, “OMOKENTRO” takes the attentive listener on a journey through time and space—not only reminiscent of the duo’s music reverberating through the reservoir but also through the memories of its enchanted visitors.

The duo draws on a variety of musical influences ranging from New Music to Minimal, as well as, occasionally, Greek folk music, or their own English-language compositions for voice in order to integrate them into their artistic approach. When playing together, they blur the lines between composition and improvisation while being mindful of the resonant qualities of the space and the people around them. The duo interacts with sensitivity and freedom to each other as to the environment and the audience, that become both a source of inspiration and resonant bodies in this process. Ingrid Schmoliner works with a piano, prepared with wooden sticks and even porcupine needles as well as e-bows to approximate the aesthetics of electronic music through the use of mostly acoustic means. Elena Kakaliagou invents unconventional new techniques for her horn, that make the instrument sound like the wind, the sea, or like a roaring animal; a few minutes later the well-known lyrical sound of the french horn accompanies the voice of Ingrid Schmoliner in a more classical duo. 

Nabelóse Linktree: https://linktr.ee/nabelose

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 45:41

1 | A1 – Tauchen (5:34)
2 | A2 – Kern (7:15)
3 | A3 – Walking* (10:44)
4 | B1 – Wolf’s Path* (9:59)
5 | B2 – Amygdalaki* (12:09)

*concert recording

[Liner notes on physical copies]

Composed for the acoustics of the big water reservoir of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Recorded live and in binaural audio during the fourth edition of ‘Speicher – festival for site-specific music’ in August 2020

Dedicated to our friend and colleague Thomas Stempkowski who left us too early; “Pfiat Di, mei Freind!”

[Credits]

Recorded by Alexander Meurer; mixed by Ian Medina & Alexander Meurer
Mastered and cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle in Berlin, 2022
Cover photo by Hans Peter Widmer & Christiaan Stuten from Hans Jenny’s publication ‘Kymatik’
Cover design by Alexander Meurer

Supported by SKE / austro mechana

©℗ by bohemian drips & Nabelóse | all rights reserved | LC: 96928 | www.bohemiandrips.de | www.nabelose.net

A2 – Kern

The Berlin based label “bohemian drips” was founded in 2011 by Alexander Meurer and Fillipp Vingerhoets and is specialized in developing, publishing and staging site-specific compositions in settings with distinctive acoustics. The inclusion of the spatial sound in as a compositional dimension forms the basis of this production process: To capture a three dimensional image, those productions are recorded in binaural audio ("Kunstkopf-Stereophonie"). Following this approach, the label organizes a yearly festival for site-specific music in two old water reservoirs in Berlin, Pankow. Since 2016, "bohemian drips" also releases studio LPs.

A2 – Kern

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