[microsound] New Oloolo/Derek Holzer release on Nexsound

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

New release on Nexsound: Oloolo / Derek Holzer - "Kosta"

Thanks to Andrey Kiritchenko and his Nexsound label, a series of 
improvisations I made with Kiryll Lomunov, Rodion Zolotarew and Maksim 
Borisov in Karosta, Latvia last year have finally seen an MP3 release.

Please have a listen!

http://www.nexsound.org/ns22.html

thx,
Derek

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Review from: Igloomag

http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=638&category=reviews

Oloolo / Derek Holzer :: Kosta EP (Nexsound, MP3)

"...The seven tracks of Kosta are small flirtations with noise and 
compressed field recordings. This is glitch theory being applied to the 
sound of history, the winds of old battlefields and abandoned cities 
being cut, spliced, and flung -- scattershot -- into the air..."

Mark Teppo, Contributor

An improvisational collaboration between Latvian duo Oloolo and sound 
designer Derek Holzer, Kosta is a micro album of micro sounds. Holzer 
sampled the passage of air through bones and other detritus from the 
decommissioned military base of Karosta and these samples were then 
treated and manipulated by Kiryll Lomunov and Rodion Zolotarew (Oloolo) 
to create tiny pieces which creak and rattle and whisper with the ghosts 
of history. Maksim Borisov provides the sound of a children's toy 
synthesizer for several of the tracks, further adding a spectral echo to 
the tiny chattering of sound as if the old bones of small children were 
being stirred by the ancient wind.

The tracks end with terminal abruptness as if windows were being closed, 
shutting out the bleak wind, which had been tumbling the dust and chaff 
of decayed cities. A constant arrhythmia fills these songs obscuring the 
tiny wisps of melody which flutter like crippled moths beside a fading 
light bulb. The melody in "BCE" sounds like nothing more than a single 
lonely breeze making voice through a metal tube berried beneath the 
rattling chaotic percussion, burying the vestigial humanity still 
transient in that tiny wind. The 1:42 long "Pop-post" is sliced off in 
mid-stream; the distressed voice trying to break through the wail of 
noise is suddenly gone. Mechanized bees swarm for two minutes in 
"Filtter Shumov," scouring the memory of the fading voice of "Pop-post" 
and -- equally transitory -- they vanish into the cyclic buzz of machine 
information which persists for the duration of "Without an Information 
Network of a Meander of the Transistor."

The seven tracks of Kosta are small flirtations with noise and 
compressed field recordings. This is glitch theory being applied to the 
sound of history, the winds of old battlefields and abandoned cities 
being cut, spliced, and flung -- scattershot -- into the air. You blink 
and a track is gone. You exhale and another passes. The jagged 
atmospheres of Kosta are too short-lived; I was left wanting more.


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derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
---Oblique Strategy # 73:
"From nothing to more than nothing"

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