#73 - Live in Ostrava 14.1.22

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	1.	Gather Round; It's Story Time 05:32
	2.	Whirling Towards The Moments Of Devastation And Delirium 07:05
	3.	170 Seconds Until They Launch Every Rocket And Demolish Our Past 10:50
	4.	Hardly Anything Is Left Of Civilisation And We Must Rebuild With The Machinery That Remains 04:01
	5.	Stronger Than Ever 05:56
	6.	Close Your Eyes, Concentrate And Don't Forget To Breathe 07:07

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This set was an improvised dark ambient doom noise piece, playing along to a visual backdrop shown on a projector, upstairs in the art gallery part of Fiducia, a bookshop in the centre of Ostrava, Cz.

This was just me, my bass, pedals and laptop which had the intro and outro 'extra' sounds. The two tracks are previous versions of tracks from a forthcoming split with Säkkikangas.

I made this recording just with my trusty H1N Zoom recorder, although I did place it on a wooden ledge in between the PA speakers, which is why you occasionally here some vibration noises on the heavier parts, but, my thinking, my hope is that they add some knowledge of the heaviness that was there.

So, granted, this is a very live sounding recording, once again, but I am so pleased that I managed to get a document of this evening. To play a solo set only 2 months after moving to Czech for Martin Rezny of Säkkikangas, who puts on gigs with audiences that really appreciate and attentively listen to every sound, every note of the people making them, was a very big step for me in my evolution as an improvising musician, and as someone trying more and more to combine the visual aspect into what I do as The Owl.

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released May 8, 2022

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The visual that I made specifically for this show can be seen in full with the music here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYLLSy37DVM

It incorporated two short films;
Emak-Bakia, a 1926 French film
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emak-Bakia
and 1944 American film The Witch's Cradle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch%27s_Cradle
along with some extra effects, colours and abstracts made from them.

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I hope you can listen with an open mind and put yourself in a room with me, especially with the aid of the visuals.

Thank you, as always, for joining me on this journey.

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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.

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