Album GERRY
Release date : June 4th, 2021
(Patchrock / Night-Night Records / L'Autre Distribution)

Composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Sylvain Texier aka Ô Lake

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Publishing : mgmt.olake@gmail.com

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Desert (Music inspired by the motion picture Gerry)

Gerry's Theme (Music inspired by the motion picture Gerry)

Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories

Alive and Dying (Waving, Smiling)

From the new Icelandic label that brought us Atli Örvarsson, Sin Fang, Christopher Royal King & Nico Rosenberg, comes a new composer, hailing from Naarm (Melbourne). As a professional concert pianist, Rose Riebl has captived the audience from around the world with her performances which include her own compositions. Her musical work "extends her intimate relationship with the piano into a realm of more fragile, soulful and transcendent works that guide the listener into vulnerable emotional spaces," and when you play through the previously released two singles, you'll know that these words ring true. Now that she's been signed to INNI, Riebl is preparing for her debut album of compositions, titled Do Not Move Stones, due out on June 18th. Meanwhile, I am here today to tease you with a beautiful piece borrowed from her album, titled "Even As The Light Fades". Here, the sparkling piano keys, weaving in the plush bed of organic reverb, carry and lift the soaring strings into a poignant dance, that is at once a little melancholic and triumphant in its song. Echoes of romantic classical composers, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Chopin, return in ghostly melodies that pluck at the emotions in your heart, recalling false memories of the past lives, when sitting in a concert hall was enough to be transformed with only music.

“I think sometimes people forget to feel, or it’s easier not to,” she told classical and new music magazine CutCommon. “So, I like my music to elicit some kind of emotional response. Sometimes, that’s just rest or calm; other times, it’s more intense – there’s fury, rage, longing. We all walk around carrying these things, and if music can act as a bridge back to feeling, allowing us to access those dormant parts of our own little universes, then it’s doing what it’s meant to. I think art wants to wake people up.”

Do Not Move Stones

Even As The Light Fades

TRACK PREMIERE : Rose Riebl - Even As The Light Fades

Another track produced for Naviar records' Haiku Challenge. Coincidentally, earlier in the day I had been reading about 'stretto fuga' techniques of the 16th Century (often used in religious music) which I thought fitted well with the theme of the haiku, so decided to experiment with elements of that approach. For me the 'serpent concealed' is represented by the chaotic violin that emerges near the end.

The Serpent's Concealed (naviarhaiku387) - Adrian Lane

A track for Naviar Records Haiku challenge. I wanted the music to have a gentle wave to it representing the sea; I didn't want to use actual drums where the haiku mentions a drum, so I tapped the body of my violin.

I'm Seeing The Blue Sea (naviarhaiku388) - Adrian Lane

God Only Knows

Thomas Méreur - Out Of The Dirt
Taken from "The Dystopian Thing", the forthcoming album by Thomas Méreur
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Limited to 50 copies, handmade cd packages, hand numbered, brown kraft eco friendly wallets.

Thomas Méreur - Out Of The Dirt

Bara

Voice, piano, mix & recording : Thomas Méreur

Music & lyrics : Philip Selway, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood & Ed O'Brien

Blow Out (Radiohead cover) - Piano Day 2019

French composer and multi-instrumentalist Christine Ott returns to Gizeh Records for her fourth album ‘Time to Die’, the sequel to the highly regarded ‘Only Silence Remains’ (2016).

‘Time To Die’ is a musical fresco in eight chapters, a sensory journey between the world of the living and the dead, for which the musician weaves a unique dramaturgy between contemporary classical and electro-acoustic music.

The title track picks up the story where ‘Only Silence Remains’ left off ... Like it’s centrepiece; ‘Disaster’, the beloved cinematic text here is read by Casey Brown. Ott seeks to offer strong sensations, without artifice, whether by the power of her compositions on the piano (‘Brumes’, ‘Horizons Fauves’), or by intuitive arrangements mixing her unique practice of Ondes Martenot with a maelstrom of Jupiter8, Monotrons, Timpani and Tubular Bells as on the first track. In addition, Ott captivates us with her harp playing on ‘Chasing Harp’, by her aerial singing on ‘Landscape’, or even on the airwaves on ‘Comma Opening’, which ends a triptych of songs after the versions published on ‘Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)’ (NAHAL 2020) and on ‘Volutes’ from her side-project Snowdrops (Injazero 2020). These two previous records have been praised by critics, especially in the best records of the year according to The Guardian.

This expressive and spontaneous impetus, leitmotif in her musical production, takes a new form within ‘Time to Die’. Through the notes disseminated in an endlessly reinvented minimalist heritage, the interpretation is the ultimate musical glue allowing the pieces to come to life, thereby making this repertoire and its composer-performer unique. A universe where music - despite the album's title - never dies.

We finally share these few words from the talented American musician and videographer Fredo Viola, with whom Christine has forged long-distance correspondence since the first lockdown. Listening to the record, he wrote her these few words, which he allows us to share here:

"Stunning, terrifying, magnetic, delicate, painful and uncanny... It’s like discovering a bizarre object hanging very low in the sky, something beautiful but unfathomable, just out of reach. The way I see the album is as a series of quite cinematic meditations on the theme of death and dying, changing prismatically, up to that incredibly delicate and beautiful conclusion.” Fredo Viola

PRESSING NOTES
50 — Blue Vinyl + CD - Deluxe edition. Gizeh Store Exclusive. Includes the sheet music for the track 'Miroirs' housed inside a hand-numbered, silkscreened card folder with additional texts from Christine Ott. Heavyweight card sleeve with poly-lined paper inner.

200 — Blue Vinyl - Heavyweight card sleeve with poly-lined paper inner.

CD — Housed in a six-panel digipak with additional artwork featured on the inner sleeve.

CREDITS
All music composed by Christine Ott
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Christine Ott — Harp, Vocals, Piano, Ondes Martenot, Jupiter8, Percussions, Timpani, Tubular bells, Monotron, Vibraphone / Mathieu Gabry — Mellotron, Keyboards, Vibraphone, Effects, Processing and Arrangements on 1,4,5,8 / Casey Brown — Spoken Voice on 1
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Recorded in Serpentine Studio Strasbourg, Conservatoire de Strasbourg & Musée Würth Erstein from 2012 to 2019 / Mixed by Benoit Burger in Spring 2020 / Mastered by Lawrence English / Artwork by Renaud Allirand / Layout by Richard Knox / Limited Numbered Vinyl Edition includes the piano score of "Miroirs", transcribed by Rémi Zeller

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Time to Die

Landscape

Christine Ott - Landscape

French musician, singer and songwriter.
My first album is available on vinyl, CD and all digital platforms.

Blow Out (Radiohead cover) - Piano Day 2019

Thomas Méreur

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