[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

A3 – Walking

“João Alegria is an essential figure in the Portuguese underground music scene. With a prolific career spanning over a decade, the guitarist – as he prefers to be called – embodies artistic commitment, resilience, and a deep devotion to crafting dark, experimental soundscapes. The numerous albums the Lisbon-based musician has released testify to a sonic vision akin to its object of study: unhurried and unperturbable, yet continuous and tempestuous."

— João Morado (Beats for Peeps, Cosmofonia, Jazz.pt)

“You paint for fame & status, I paint for freedom & awareness”, reads one of the vertical graffiti that Mr.Paradox Paradise painted on some Berlin building. Likewise, there is nothing in João Alegria’s art that is done with the intention of fame or likes. He spent more than a decade editing with recognition limited to the “community” of sound nomads. “I’ve been doing this for some time and I don’t have a very wide audience”, he admits. However, who knows, knows. And who knows, like it. João Alegria’s music is for connoisseurs. Perhaps that will always be the case.
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However, the unique contours of his art, combined with a stubborn aesthetic consistency and prolificacy, are the characteristics that simultaneously nest and vitalize it. The unconditional and obstinate way in which this “guitarist” – as he likes to be called – has created his work is a rare case of perseverance. His motivation? It’s not entirely explicit, but somewhere between the love of music and the physiological need to create lives the truth of João Alegria. If he lives because he breathes, he seems to make music because he has to live. One senses in his speech an inevitability of cathartic genesis that surreptitiously emerges between the lines like a figure wandering through the night.
João Alegria can also move through the shadows, but his music definitely points to the heavens, full of verticality” 

– João Morado (Beats for Peeps, Cosmofonia, Jazz.pt)

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.

'Then the fog came. The fog came from the river in thin spirals like spirits in a churchyard and thickened with the force of a genie from a bottle. The bulrushes were buried first, then the trunks of the trees, then the forks and the junctions. The top of the trees floated in the fog, making suspended islands for the birds.'
Sexing the Cherry, Jeannette Winterson

....free electrons and molecules of sound.....

.......started experimenting with sounds and voices, field recordings and cheap electronic equipment in the late eighties. 
At that time known as Majorana and Inutil, I was also involved in the Mail-Art network with worldwide project exhibitions.
As Loalue, I've started to work with software in 2005, producing music "for your headphones only" while painting pointillism soundscapes.
My artistic approach is mainly influenced by African and Asian music and traditional art as well as contemporary art and photography.

 https://thatfaintlight.bandcamp.com/releases 

Spent some years mostly working for https://soundcloud.com/thatfaintlight the project I share with Adrian Lane https://soundcloud.com/calicoade





...a beautiful video, made by Sanmi, for:

Sanmi -Tête ( Loalue's intromissions version )

http://vimeo.com/22059652

free download:

http://www.archive.org/details/49a040_Odaibe_-_Honsiu_Midnight_Remixes


futuresequence

http://www.futuresequence.com/article/best-of-the-week-03-09-11/


...some tracks are downloadable for free for everyone...it would be nice to know who you are, dear downloader.....


...recently opened a new page, hosting soundscapes:

https://soundcloud.com/loaluesoundscapes

http://shanyio.bandcamp.com/album/pribegie


http://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com

merci beaucoup à tous chez ABZ for hosting me:

http://www.maisonbleuecollectifartistes.com/loalue-musique.php

on https://loalue.bandcamp.com/ you can find some music I've moved from this page

thanks to https://soundcloud.com/millejano for http://www.stepcamera.de/thoughts/night-tracks-132-loalue-seas-shells-dreaming-in-central-park:::2013-06-10.html


http://soundcloud.com/2spirits1soul-jiibay/gimu-jii-musiccant-remember  featuring Loalue now released here:

http://solanic.org/releases/gimu-and-jii-music-has-never-been/

"Dreaming in Central Park" broadcasted here: 

http://soundcloud.com/misstica/misstica-berni-delicatessen  


an old project:

https://soundcloud.com/monbijoux

A3 – Walking

bohemian drips.