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“Two Duos” is pressed from cellist Okkyung Lee’s most recent OTO Residency; the first side a duo with Jérôme Noetinger on Revox B77 and the second with Nadia Ratsimandresy on Ondes Martenot. Cut together, the two meetings seem to raise three cellos in the search for expressive voice: the cello, it’s magnetic reproduction, and the dual controls of the machine invented to expand on its musical qualities.

On the A side Noetinger’s opening tape hiss establishes a current; an electrical partner who gives Lee room to slide across and stretch out. Progressively the cello is returned, duplicated and manipulated with increased velocity and distortion. Noetinger draws out the full extent of Lee’s extended technique; rewinding strands of Lee's horse hair and transmuting her percussive attacks into shuddering echos, before letting his own concrete interjections spin the duo's sonic tussle into an almost romantic daydream.

On side B the ondes (invented by French cellist and wartime radio operator Maurice Eugene Louis Martenot and so loved by Bernard Parmegiani, Varese and Messiaen) seems shaken from classical tradition and those long, drawn out horrorscapes it has come to be associated with. In a duel with Lee, Ratsimandresy grasps the ondes’ extraordinary capacity for dexterity, nuance and speed, hounding Lee’s cello in a bid to drive her instrument out of the past and into the future.

Two fantastic pairings and a testament to the freshness with which Lee and her collaborators continue to work with their instruments.

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Okkyung Lee / cello

Jérôme Noetinger / revox b77

Nadia Ratsimandresy / ondes martenot

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Thursday 28th March & Friday 29th March by Paul Skinner and Shaun Crook. Mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug. Designed by Maja Larrson. ROKU027.

ROKU027 - Okkyung Lee / Jérôme Noetinger / Nadia Ratsimandresy - “Two Duos” [sample]

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Tape Me Home

EXTANOC II: Festering Spawn
Out now on Lonktaar
Edition of 44 copies

listen here: https://bearboneslaylow.bandcamp.com/album/extanoc-ii-festering-spawn
order here: oppressivesound(at)gmail(dot)com

Starleap Larvae

Noir Age special session focusing on Wire—one of the most prolific, challenging, and inventive bands to arise from the post-punk era. The emphasis for this mix is Wire offshoots, side projects, friends, and family.

Noir Age Wire Special 05/02/22

A4. Shabason / Gunning - Measures of Fog

Mix recorded live during Crampi al cuore Festival - Locarno 
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Ellen Zweig, David Weinstein - Sensitives Bones 
Ayami Suzuki - Claro
Max de Wardener, Coby Sey - Bismuth Dream - Coby Sey Rework 
Bracelet - fr8558
Carmen Villain - So high you’re mine - rework 
èvia - slumber 
Florian T M Zeisig - 'Eternity by the Stars' Remixes - 08 Direl (Remix)
Dream Dolphin - L.E.A.
0comeups - open armz 
Ametsub - Repeatedly - helios remix
King Softy, Nita - e-mos 
upsammy - Melt in My Heated Hand
Nueen - Inwards 
Richard H.Kirk - The Number Of Magic
Swallow - Peekaboo (Dub)

Crampi al cuore festival - 02/07/23

14/06/2023 Recorded in Primorska, Slovenia. Substrate-borne vibrations in a hay-meadow habitat. Different signals of the vibrational community in the area.

Obalni Travnik / Coastal meadow

advance track from the forthcoming album "Lichtung" by zeitkratzer director Reinhold Friedl (piano) and Radian member Martin Siewert (guitar). CD / DL out on january 12th, 2024

Lichtung

REINHOLD FRIEDL / MARTIN SIEWERT - Gestade

From the album "NIMP Preset".
Available here: https://bearboneslaylow.bandcamp.com/album/nimp-preset

Snipbient

As you can imagine we are under huge pressure at the moment and are working flat out to ensure Cafe OTO survives this. The impact of this situation is extremely acute for small venues like ours and we need all the support we can get to pull through. Please donate what you can, if you can. Thank you. 

Cafe OTO opened in April 2008 with the aim of providing a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream. It comprises one large cafe/performance space open during the day serving food and drink with an evening programme of live music almost seven nights a week. 

OTOROKU is part of OTOProjects - a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) that has been set up to manage the programme at Café Oto. Any profits from OTOROKU are put back into supporting what we do and will help us to continue programming the best musicians and performers from all over the world.

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ROKU027 - Okkyung Lee / Jérôme Noetinger / Nadia Ratsimandresy - “Two Duos” [sample]

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