#66 - Chemistry And Composition Part 1
by The Owl & Gareth Hodgson
laundrefan
laundrefan
Lost in the sound... The doom resonates and builds up within layered jams
Favorite track: Slumber Under The Celestial Waters.
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mike burgess
amazing hypnotic stuff.
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Another Gem of a release. In the days of non-existent liner notes, the thoughts shared about the production definitely put the listener in the correct frame of mind to appreciate what is happening here.
Favorite track: The All-Encompassing Owlfossian Adventure.
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This sounds like a Wolves In The Throne Room song title!
Hopefully by the power of suggestion means that you will close your eyes and drift away into the music...
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Another Euphoric Mammoth
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If you want to know / a reminder where the other euphoric mammoth is, see OWL60...
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Classic slam riff in this one, but in a lo-fi bass and drums style!
I am pretty sure nobody has mixed slam, sludge and glitch noise together in a song before. Let me know if they have!
...because life doesn't have to be serious!
'Have a dance every day, it's good for you'.
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A Tribute To Disco Rum
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Diascorium talked on numerous occasions about setting up a 'functions / weddings band' and calling it Disco Rum. It's a shame that never happened, at least just because the name is funny!
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...because Diascorium once supported Keelhaul, we are both big fans of Keelhaul and this one reminds me of Keelhaul.
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OWL66
Track 6
666 seconds
Me and Gaz are both fans of Iceland, and general adventuring, so, to combine Owl and AFOS (A Forest Of Stars, his main band) into one new word 'Owlfossian' seemed rather logical, especially given how much goes on in this one throughout its course.
I hope you will give it a listen... it goes from techno to noise rock to doom to black metal to noise and dark ambient over the 666 seconds!
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1000 bonus points to anyone who can decipher what this song title is referring to.
Clue: One section of this reminds me of a song by a band that both me and Gaz love, and the title is based on that song.... You've only got about 100 billion songs to choose from, so it should be pretty easy now.
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Animated video for the whole album here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVJiB6mB8X4
or just dip in on one of the tracks (Heel Call) separated here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSUonvFDmYs
Last few Bandcamp codes here:
dlcm.app/the-owl/owl066-chemistry-and-composition-part-1
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Thank you to all who trust me once again with looking after their ears, eyes and brain during this riff fill journey that has the usual Owlish sidetracks and tangents!
2 hours original bass and drums improvised session.
6 months of demolition and reconstruction work
The Owl - Bass, noise, post-jam-restructuring
Gareth Hodgson - Drums
1-6 - Entirely improvised live:
July 20th, 2021, at Eiger Studios, Leeds
Recorded with just a Zoom H1 Recorder on the floor.
7 - Gaz sent me some a little drum jam from his practice room on December 10th 2020. I originally intended to record some bass for it, but decided to go a completely different direction, as usual!
Called complete on January 19th 2022.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVJiB6mB8X4
or just dip in on one of the tracks (Heel Call) separated here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSUonvFDmYs
Last few Bandcamp codes here:
dlcm.app/the-owl/owl066-chemistry-and-composition-part-1
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Thank you to all who trust me once again with looking after their ears, eyes and brain during this riff fill journey that has the usual Owlish sidetracks and tangents!
2 hours original bass and drums improvised session.
6 months of demolition and reconstruction work
The Owl - Bass, noise, post-jam-restructuring
Gareth Hodgson - Drums
1-6 - Entirely improvised live:
July 20th, 2021, at Eiger Studios, Leeds
Recorded with just a Zoom H1 Recorder on the floor.
7 - Gaz sent me some a little drum jam from his practice room on December 10th 2020. I originally intended to record some bass for it, but decided to go a completely different direction, as usual!
Called complete on January 19th 2022.
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credits
released March 2, 2022
As said on the jam with Dan Clarke... 'This release is a mix of deliberately obvious practice room jamming sound, recorded on one mic to put you right there in the room with us, just hanging out and seeing where the sounds take us, and a multi layered, processed and restructured sonic adventure to bend the reality you were previously placed within.'
Me and Gaz have played together since around 2009 when Diascorium began, playing extremely technical metal, followed by Narayana playing grindy black metal. Between the two bands, we played around 100 gigs, plus of course hundreds of rehearsals as well (breaking off from fast technical stuff to jam stupid slam riffs and Primus inspired nonsense, which should explain track 3!).
There are a couple of EPs of each band here, (and if anyone wants Bandcamp codes to add these to their collections, please message)...
diascorium.bandcamp.com
narayana.bandcamp.com
We hadn't played together since the last Narayana gig around November 2019, so it was cool (on a mega hot day!) getting back in a room and seeing where the riffs and rhythms went, as we've always been pretty locked solid as a drum and bass unit. Then, of course, it's always fun seeing what I can create and build on with those sounds afterwards. These two factors gave me the album title.
Hopefully one day we'll be able to improvise live in a studio, with an engineer and get much better original source material, but once you put aside the 'practice room / demo' style sound that this has at times, and can just go with its flow, I think there will be some surprises for you. Really pleased with what came from the day, and there is a second part to this recording being worked on as well.
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Artwork is all taken from an animation called 'Man And Safety', which is a seemingly disparate visual to apply to the sounds. It was made for the United States Air Force Department of Defense in 1984, and 'explains how communications, physical limitations, physiological limitations and supervision relate to the role of human limitations in accidents'. It may be a stretch, but I can definitely apply that to playing in extreme metal bands in a potentially abstract but 'oh yeah that makes sense' kind of fashion.
It is a pretty surreal trip to be honest, and, don't ask me how exactly, but, I discovered that it sync'd up really well with the sounds in a huge amount of places, so, I have made a full video for this album using 'Man And Safety', and all the imagery for the tracks, titles and credits (all in the download) have come from this animation.
As said on the jam with Dan Clarke... 'This release is a mix of deliberately obvious practice room jamming sound, recorded on one mic to put you right there in the room with us, just hanging out and seeing where the sounds take us, and a multi layered, processed and restructured sonic adventure to bend the reality you were previously placed within.'
Me and Gaz have played together since around 2009 when Diascorium began, playing extremely technical metal, followed by Narayana playing grindy black metal. Between the two bands, we played around 100 gigs, plus of course hundreds of rehearsals as well (breaking off from fast technical stuff to jam stupid slam riffs and Primus inspired nonsense, which should explain track 3!).
There are a couple of EPs of each band here, (and if anyone wants Bandcamp codes to add these to their collections, please message)...
diascorium.bandcamp.com
narayana.bandcamp.com
We hadn't played together since the last Narayana gig around November 2019, so it was cool (on a mega hot day!) getting back in a room and seeing where the riffs and rhythms went, as we've always been pretty locked solid as a drum and bass unit. Then, of course, it's always fun seeing what I can create and build on with those sounds afterwards. These two factors gave me the album title.
Hopefully one day we'll be able to improvise live in a studio, with an engineer and get much better original source material, but once you put aside the 'practice room / demo' style sound that this has at times, and can just go with its flow, I think there will be some surprises for you. Really pleased with what came from the day, and there is a second part to this recording being worked on as well.
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Artwork is all taken from an animation called 'Man And Safety', which is a seemingly disparate visual to apply to the sounds. It was made for the United States Air Force Department of Defense in 1984, and 'explains how communications, physical limitations, physiological limitations and supervision relate to the role of human limitations in accidents'. It may be a stretch, but I can definitely apply that to playing in extreme metal bands in a potentially abstract but 'oh yeah that makes sense' kind of fashion.
It is a pretty surreal trip to be honest, and, don't ask me how exactly, but, I discovered that it sync'd up really well with the sounds in a huge amount of places, so, I have made a full video for this album using 'Man And Safety', and all the imagery for the tracks, titles and credits (all in the download) have come from this animation.
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