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GRAVITY
the empty shining light
is floating back on me
I breath when you sleep
and I have no gravity
all my wishes gone away
I always dream of you with a smiling face
and we have no gravity
Oslo Tapes returns with the highly anticipated fourth album, ’Staring at the Sun Before Goin' Blind’ marking another step in Marco Campitelli's personal initiatory journey through the realms of post/art/kraut/noise and introspection. The album will be released on vinyl by Echodelick Records (USA) and Sound Effect Records (Greece), while Grazil Records (Austria) will oversee the CD, cassette, and digital versions.
'Staring at the Sun Before Goin' Blind' is the follow-up to the successful third album, ‘ØR’, released in 2021 by theprestigious Pelagic Records, and it is imbued with emotional radiations that fuel disorientation and restlessness. Voices in contrast with metronomic rhythmic patterns, geometries distorted by fluid basslines, and mellifluous synths that compensate for the voids left by liquid and acidic guitars all contribute to creating a distinctly personal auditory mirage.
The album is produced by Amaury Cambuzat, a historic member of faUSt, and Ulan Bator, who co-authored the songs and arrangements with Campitelli. Using an unspecified number of magnetic tapes and analog machines, he forged the album's sound through his thirty-year experience in the kraut/avant/rock domain.
Oslo Tapes says: ‹‹ ’Staring at the Sun Before Goin' Blind’ is hypothetically a brief period traversed in eight tracks, from
the ethereal opening of 'Gravity' to the hypnotic 'Ethereal Song', the avant-syncretism of 'Deja Neu', and the psychedelic and modern deep house vibes of 'Reject Yr Regret'. It follows the harmonic framework of 'Like a Metamorphosis’ in a fusion of psychedelic jazz, the post minimalist fuzz-kraut of 'Middle Ground', the distorted and celestial 'Somnambulist's Daydream', and the tribal-kaleidoscopic title track finale. ››
While the Oslo Tapes capsule is in orbit, on board are Mauro Spada on bass and Davide Di Virgilio on drums, Stefano Micolucci on bass and upright bass, Federico Sergente on percussion, Nicola Amici, also known as Kaouenn, on guitars, synths, and percussion. There are also exceptional guests such as Berlin's Sicker Man from Trialogos on cello and Dahm Majuri Cipolla, the drummer of the Japanese post-rock band MONO. After both being part of the same label with Marco Campitelli, they cultivated a collaboration driven by their shared passion for kraut rock.
Recommended for fans of God Is An Astronaut, Neu!, Can, Porno For Pyros, Nine Inch Nails and Angel Of Light.
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released December 1, 2023
The new record-journey of the Avantgarde Art-Kraut collective Oslo Tapes produced by Amaury Cambuzat (faUSt, Ulan Bator) with a special gust: Dahm Majuri Cipolla of the post-rock band MONO, Jegong.
A mix of heavy tunes with dreaming sonic landscapes.
There is a sense of solitude in OSLO TAPES’ compositions which makes it easy to imagine them as interstellar jam sessions between cosmonauts, each in their own isolated space capsule.
supported by 6 fans who also own “Staring at the Sun before goin' blind”
BRUIT fait partie de ces groupes qui se découvrent surtout en live.
Une claque de tous les instants, à chaque mesure.
Du son des cordes magnifiques à la guitare qui nous enrobe, le voyage est exceptionnel et en vaut la chandelle.
Merci encore 🙏 kevinoudard
The Brooklyn band deliver a blissful psychedelic rock album steeped in sci-fi and spirituality, awash with organs, strings, and reverb. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 23, 2021
supported by 6 fans who also own “Staring at the Sun before goin' blind”
This is actually kind of an incredible album, for a bunch of reasons. First off, it has a really ear-friendly approach, which is surprising, given Hjelm's pedigree. Second, it's a beautiful mix of influences, from the Depeche Mode cover, to System Calibration, which sounds like a long-lost Vangelis collaboration.
This album explores space and the outer realms of psych rock, but it holds your hand and whispers nice things in your ear while doing so. Smekermann