One indie record I'm looking forward this year comes from Würzburg heavy instrumental band Omega Massif. I found them last year on mp3-blog Lupatarkastaja. Their demo Kalt is downloadable from their webpage and Myspace.
Listening to Omega Massif after Nordic post-rock acts like Sigur Rós, Magyar Posse and The White Birch - felt like having Bulgarian yoghurt with lingonberries after having eaten forest berries flavour all the time.
Their songnames and graphics point towards icy, desolate, barren and deserted places. In my imagination also to Antarctic exploration of early 1900s. Ruthless and victorius Amundsen, romantic but tragic failure of Scott, the survival battle of Shackleton and his crew...
Four years ago sound duo Kalvo and I studied that theme in an audiovisual performance. I had sampled lots of black and white photography from those times and some filmmaterial. We wore snowsuits and everything. Maximum intensity with the minimum effectry was our aim. Like Omega Massif say, "we would not play faster if we could".
Photo by Frank Hurley on Elephant Island, 1919.
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Tuomo on 19 Jan 2007 | PermalinkNow this might not make any sense, but the photograph above and the wristwatch below made me think of seafaring, and especially the novel "A Descent into the Maelstrom" by Edgar Allan Poe.
I think it does make sense. I've peripherally been thinking about this for a while. I wasn't until today I found something new – but it's only for those, who understand Finnish. YLE Radio 1 recently interviewed Poe expert Jaana Kapari. She is best known as the translator of Harry Potter, but recently also published a new collection of short stories from Poe. Very interesting, regarding Poe's work, his person and notions of translation. The programme is available for download (.mp3 24,2 MB).
hey, we have a new mp3 from our upcoming album on our myspace page www.myspace.com/omegamassif
maybe you like it
andi/om
