#92 - An Owl In The Noisy Sky #4

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1.	The Battle Of The Shadows And The Noise 09:48	lyrics
This is from a bonus collection made from the submitted tracks to Shadowlands and Noisembryowl over on Owlripper, that were either not quite right in style for the compilations they were intended for, or sent in too late, but I still found them interesting and wanted to put them out there somehow. Once the Shadowlands #2 and Noisembryowl #3 compilations were complete, I noticed a few of the extra tracks seemed to fit together really well, and so I set about arranging all of them and was pleased with this 71 minute collection that came to be. 'Battle' is my track on this compilation is one that was started for the Shadowlands compilation, and returned to a few times, but I couldn't make it work. I decided then to make it go from very quiet to loud, but it didn't fit the noise style on Noisembryowl, so in those senses, it now fits here, and felt like it worked as a closing piece for this album. The tune kinda ended up a mix of Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis meets Merzbow and Morbid Beauty! The video is made from the scene I got the sample from, in a film called Battle of Warsaw 1920.
2.	Crystallized Fireball 07:43
3.	Crushing The Scepter 08:58	lyrics
Remix of an incredible song from my still-favourite black metal album of all time 'Pentagram' (entitled the 'Crushed Into New Pieces' remix) I did this for the Owlripper 'Howls Into The Void #2' black metal compilation. As mentioned on the Captain Beefheart track about remixing, I like to dive right inside the sounds and see what I can pull out of there, and what else I can add, layer up, distort, bash into different pieces. This one is deliberately much noisier than the original, so, imagine you're listening to this on a bootleg tape back in the early 90s that's done the rounds in different countries to get to you! I've expanded on the structure of the song some more... plus done some of the usual Owl oddness to it as well, of course. A few explosions and dissonant harmonies added, with a dark ambient ending after the intensity. I hope you will give this chance to do what it does, because I am actually really pleased with the expansion of this magnificent song. The video I made uses footage from their London gig back in 1995, which I was at; and I am sure this version will upset a lot of the black metal purists or elite, but, isn't that the whole point anyway? I know this is Pest doing vocals on the video, and Hat did it on the record, but, it seemed most relevant to use this particular video. Their set was utterly crushing, and the gig was along with Cradle Of Filth (who were still good then) and Primordial (who replaced Enslaved who were originally on this bill, and this was at the time of the Imrama album, for me by far their best still).
4.	Echelon Data Information 06:05	info
5.	Disemboweled by Werewolves 04:00	info
6.	A Reminder Of When The Robot Bees Were Rendered Extinct By Robot Humans 07:01	lyrics
When I was a child, I had a fever fuelled dream about futuristic bees, in a world of robots and oddly shaped and colourful buildings and transport. I was already a bit of a misanthropist and loner kid, and had a bad outlook about humans, which must have aided this dream, because the robotic humans were intent on getting rid of the robot bees, not realising their importance in the world. So now in 2022, robot bees are a reality, after the human(un)kind has depleted bee colonies around the world over the last few decades. This is the soundtrack to the Humans Vs Bees battle and a reminder from the future, from inside my fever drenched child mind.
7.	The Hour Of Peeling 05:00	info
8.	The Morbid Wizard 04:15	info
9.	Bludička 03:57	lyrics
https://obscuremelody.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-of-obscurity-vol-i-omr011 'bludička' is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travellers at night.
10.	The Gauntlet Is Thrown 05:55	info
11.	Fighting To Usurp Totalitarian Regimes Archaic And Devoid Of Any Civility 05:41	info
12.	Using Claws And Effects For Dramatic Irony 06:50	info
13.	Completely Mired In Madness 04:33	info
14.	What Comes After Madness And Horror... 06:30	info
15.	If You Want A Picture Of The Future 05:40	info
16.	Pachuco Cadaver 07:23	info

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As the title of the first track suggests, this is something of a 'Battle Of The Shadows And The Noise', where there is an (almost) equal helping of dark ambient, calmer, spacier, disorienting sounds mixed with noise, glitch, intensity, black metal, prog rock and other wild directions being taken during the course of this 99 minute album.

There are remixes of Captain Beefheart, Gorgoroth, Stalk Market, Humanfobia, Sebtic Smile and Mike Benoit along the way, and all the tracks were made and released for compilations on Owlripper, Umbra Vulgaris, Camembert Electrique, Paracelsian Productions, Obscure Melody, arrhythNia records, Institute For Alien Research, Tuza Records and <1 (Less Than One).

Big thank you to those who are here having a look, and especially to those who give each track a try; finishing with the Captain Beefheart remix at the end, which was an absolute eyeopener and reminder of just how crazy the structures and tunes of CB are. I hope that fans will appreciate the stretching of the structural madness that I have done.

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released November 9, 2022

Made between May 2nd and October 20th 2022

Album download also has all 16 track images, 2 promo videos for 'Bludička' and 'Fighting' and a short informative preview video for 'Robot Bees'. The 'INFO' tab has processes and backgrounds about most of the tracks.

I am as proud of the sounds I make for compilations as the tracks on my own releases, and so this is why I want to continue these collections as they are an important document of my learning, and hopefully keep you up to date with some tracks (and also other compilations) that may have got missed.

VIDEOS:
Gorgoroth remix: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iraMMHhNHHg
'Crystallized': www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjtMhmviQeo
'Battle': www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMbKz4phzEE
'Bludicka': www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKZp11VObek
Sebtic Smile remix: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioh-xzDCA8M
'Disemboweled' (original): www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ynuq-kS_B0

Album on YouTube:
Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLzwui_t_v4
Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yLamr7Yh3g

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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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