1st of november 2008
adozen.org is very proud to release 24 tracks of beautiful electronic intensity by the legendary chris douglas.
he already produced two tracks in 2004 and 2005 for the netlabel, but this time he offers 54 minutes sharp of his trademark haunting music -like auditory savourings of the multimedia atmospheres developed in synken.
after starting anew last year with the synken project, including the dvd production and touring through europe, chris douglas makes a shift in his production in 2008. two brand new albums are already available: waetka (as o.s.t.) on ideal recordings from sweden and ideom (as dalglish, his more "protorhythmic" guise) on record labels records. and there is more to come -chris douglas is back!
"this is a small selection of the over 600 songs/pieces composed for the dvd project synken.
most of the tracks here are played on instruments (piano, organ, melodian, melodica, harmonica, vibraphone, guitars, zitars) then processed with either analog or digital effects.
during the composition of synken 2005-2007, many short phases were written with instruments to branch together the flow of the film score. these are a few of the ones written that were intended to do such on their own in all their rawness."
chris douglas
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from the synken website:
synken is a collective creative experience by transforma (video) and o.s.t. (music) that pushes the limitations and restrictions of genres and steps across new ground in digital art.
american electronic music maverick o.s.t. has been releasing and performing since 1992 as o.s.t., rook vallade, dalglish, and other aliases. after more than 10 albums and numerous singles under his various monikers, douglas remains well outside the established parameters of electronic music. his work is a malevolent mutation of techno into arrhythmic patterns, interwoven digital textures, and amorphous melodies. he is known, somewhat notoriously, as an artist who is unrelentingly true to what creativity, emotion, and passion are to music. (...)
berlin video artist collective transforma (baris hasselbach, luke bennett and simon krahl) combine the momentum of vj improvisation with the power of highly composed imagery and narrative. (...)
"the music is stupendously complex. it playfully melds stubborn bulk and sonar fascination in a compellingly dense ambience, skips from fantastical spookiness to ethereal beauty, glides from ingenious visual effects into musical sovereignty and back again." jan rohlf / www.clubtransmediale.de
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the album waetka is out on ideal recordings:
o.s.t. - waetka / cd / ideal042
"an important album by one of the hidden masters of the contemporary electronic music scene! o.s.t. is berlin-based christopher douglas and waetka is his long awaited return after a five years hiatus, a time he spent hidden in the darkest shadows. step into a world of advanced electronic composition, static ambient soundworlds and a document of a hurt soul. this is how it sounds to survive. (...) chris douglas is back!"
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a conversation with chris douglas/o.s.t.
a fresh interview about the waetka album with hints on releases to come is available on hair entertainment.
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the album ideom is out on record label records:
dalglish aka o.s.t. - ideom / cd / rlr-10
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chris douglas - official links
> www.amhain.net
> www.myspace.com/rougishscald
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synken - still 18 ©transforma
synken - still 20 ©transforma