Live At The Chamber Of Commerce: OCF 03

Shearwater Records is pleased to announce the third in a series of weekly – more or less – releases in their virtual seven inch “OCF” series.

Live At The Chamber Of Commerce: OCF 03

An eccentric and mystifying chunk of electro-acoustic oddness from Scandinavia. Apparently these two tracks are excerpts from the same gallery performance in Oslo by a group who barely knew each other, sometime in the early 2000’s – although to be honest, it could be any city with a decent art school in the last forty years. But what do you expect from a band who apparently take their name from a little-known Nam June Paik piece? And in fact a Fluxus, Cagean air permeates the whole affair. A soprano mutters away in one corner, heavily treated wind instruments are abused, other random instruments are stroked or plucked, and then suddenly, half way through the second side, the most edifying outsider/Krautrock drumming I’ve heard kicks a groove in and draws it all together so that it slithers, Ouroboros like, up its own asshole, only to reappear suddenly from an entirely different orifice. Coleyisms abound as a result… It’s really very good. And strange. And good. 

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Dave Able: OCF 02

Shearwater Records is pleased to announce the second in a series of weekly – more or less – releases in their virtual seven inch “OCF” series.

Dave Able: OCF 02

Yes another missive from the reliably prolific Dave Able. Now an art school lecturer, in the late eighties Able was a member of the notorious ‘Artkore Kollektiv, whose antics involved such performance art pieces as “100xKuntz”, a day-long interpretation of the Butthole Surfers’ classic by a hundred-strong choir, and “Burning My Bridges”, the arson of an unpopular local dealer gallery. This release is typical of his current output: objets sonores of the most minimal of components, flickering into and out of life on a thickly fogged sonic plain, to strangely emotional effect.

These tracks will also appear on Able’s next album, to be released on Dissolving Sand Network in late 2012.

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The Pulgosers: OCF 01

Shearwater Records is pleased to announce the first in a series of weekly – more or less – releases in their virtual seven inch “OCF” series.

The Pulgosers: OCF 01

Aficionados of the Pulgosers’ intense live shows may be surprised by the quiet nature of much of this release, the last recording that they made before the departure of key member, Brian O’Connell, for Europe. O’Connell’s typically art brut bass part for ‘Notorio’ stirs up this menacing journey through otherwise small, carefully controlled events which occur just at the edge of perception. A dark, disquieting little record.

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