#68 - Reclamation

by The Owl

supported by

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price
Subscription

Subscribe now to receive all the new music The Owl creates, including this release and 126 back-catalog releases, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. Learn more.

Subscribe Now £10 GBP/year or more
Full Digital Discography

127

releases

Get all 127 The Owl releases available on Bandcamp.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of #126 - Work:ER, #125 - Split with Hoodrat Messiah, #124 - Re:Work, #123 - Live In The Lab, #122 - Vertebrae Sands, #121 - What Is Life?, #120 - Earth Drone, #119 - Cats In Big Hats EP, and 119 more. , and , .
Excludes subscriber-only releases.

Purchasable with gift card

£5 GBP or more

1.	Woeful Stories And Gleeful Outcomes 06:34	lyrics
Picture taken in a hotel in Trutnov, Czech Republic, whilst there for Obscene Extreme Festival in 2008.
2.	Regrade The Contours 07:45	lyrics
Picture taken in Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark 2018. I was there to play a festival with Gets Worse and ended up meeting my future wife ('The Littlemouse'! You never know how things will turn out!
3.	To Solve The Conundrum Or To Apply The Cheat Mode 04:39	lyrics
Picture is of street art at the side of Eternia / Eaternia in Prague, Czech 2019
4.	Crossed Out Roads 02:49	lyrics
Signs found in Leeds, England, around 2 miles from where I lived for 20 years in a few different places without seeing them.
5.	How My Mind Played Its Tricks On Me Today 01:11	lyrics
Photo of one of 'The Broken Men' sculpture by Olbram Zoubek, which is in Prague, Czech. This is also a close up version of the original Cerebral Constriction album cover that I repurposed quite a few of the basic skeletons of this album from; an album I put out around 2012 (which is now the title of this track).
6.	The Constant, Relentlessly Sickening Bureaucracy of the Work Place 05:59	lyrics
Street art found in Reykjavík on my third Icelandic trip in 2018, whilst there for Oration Festival.
7.	Trapped In The Fiery Pits 05:43	lyrics
Picture is of street art found in Oslo, Norway in 2012
8.	Colourful Atomic Demise 02:24	lyrics
Picture is of street art found in Shoreditch, London, England in 2018 (what an absolutely crazy place it is for street art! I need to go back)
9.	A Majestic Empty Spiral 09:34	lyrics
Photo taken of friends' old stairwell in their flat in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2017
10.	The End Of Negativity 03:01	lyrics
Picture is of street art found in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2019. There is loads around the Kommersen Loppmarknad (market).

about

Sounds that have existed for 14 years;
Images I've taken over the last 15 years;
Brought together and re-imagined to make 51 minutes of overwhelming, surprising, twisty noise / harsh / experimental / electronic / cut-up / collage / drone / dark flickering, brooding, immersive headphones recommended listening for those who like it intense.

'Reclamation' brings together sounds I've had from as far back as 2008, being worked on between December 2021 and March 1st 2022. Some were finished (at the time), nearly finished, promising good things but not quite making it to where they needed to be, but these pieces are now in their final form, individually and collectively on the album after extensive surgery to alter all of their sonic shapes.

///

credits

released March 16, 2022

Photos (cover, tracks, titles in the download) taken by me in Prague, Berlin, Copenhagen, Trutnov, Leeds, Reykjavík, Gothenburg, Shoreditch and Edinburgh, dating between 2006 and 2021.

I decided to use photos from my travels spread over a lot of years, and mostly of random art spotted on the street, as another way to prove that its worth being patient, but constantly thinking about how to utilise things you know, found, learned in the past. Some of them I had wanted to use for covers for years, but I thought I would tag on some strong imagery for each track.

I hope you will enjoy the audio, visual and story-time combination.

///

The original versions of:

- 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 were on an album called 'How My Mind Played Its Tricks On Me Today' under the guise Cerebral Constriction, released sometime in 2012 after a couple of years work and deliberation over releasing it. I have kept the titles the same or similar.

- 7 was called 'Surrounded by the Flames', from a project called Thesixhundred, and an album called 'This Infinite Loop' in 2016.

- 3 & 10 were originally from 2008, from the project Incandescence. I had a few dozen work in progress tracks that never got homes or names, but in the last year or so, I have started finding them good families to hang out with.

All tracks have had various levels of restoration work, mostly being taken apart and put back together again in different directions; with many more floors built on top of the good foundations of the originals.

Plenty more weird and wonderful noises to come!

license

about

The Owl Orlová, Czechia

A/V experiments since first DIY tape in 1994

Many bands and projects until The Owl was born in 2018

The Owls were formed in December 2021.

Welcome to the rest of the journey.

Codes: dlcm.app/the-owl

Caffeine support: ko-fi.com/theowlripper

Ⓥ 161 🏳️‍🌈 Ⓐ ... more

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact The Owl

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

The Owl recommends:

MB60 - Rescind Mankind
by Morbid Beauty

Morbid Beauty 60 (out 20.3.23) - My darker harsher / industrial / noise / drone / wall side. A good introduction and then work backwards to Day 0 at the end. The Owl
go to album
ORR004 - Noise Collection Volume 1
by The Owl

Owlripper is the netlabel I run, 75+ releases and compilations on there. This one has 4 of my noise / experimental releases in one go with bonus sounds only here. The Owl
go to album

If you like The Owl, you may also like:

Comp6 - Shadowlands 1
by V/A

supported by 56 fans who also own “#68 - Reclamation”

Heavy noise. Some of the tracks are exhausting but damn I love it The_Bunnyman
go to album
Comp17 - Shadowlands 2
by V/A

supported by 56 fans who also own “#68 - Reclamation”

Suspenseful and Eerie. Each track tells a story. Spirits haunting a boneyard and aliens scanning the wreckage of a battlefield are just some.of the images brought to mind. Michael
go to album
Topographic Relief Vol 6
by Various Artists

Warped, woozy vaporwave that builds suspense and unease with long, gauzy sheets of sound. Psychedelic and hypnotic. Bandcamp New & Notable May 2, 2016
go to album
ON021 - Death Shapes
by Mordant Arrow

Self-described as “black acid industrial dread,” Mordant Arrow deliver occult EBM that provokes shivers. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 15, 2022
go to album