dan krow wondered:
quoted 4 lines I have recently heard a few Oval songs and I'm very impressed.> I have recently heard a few Oval songs and I'm very impressed.
> I'm wondering
> which Oval album to buy. I would appreciate any feedback anyone
> has.
all personal opinions and i know someone is bound to disagree, but i'd have
to say don't start w/ _dok_ (w/ christophe charles). i did because it was
the latest release at the time and i didn't try getting any more for too
long afterwards. its made up of treated bell samples, but instead of deep
sonorous peals it concentrates more on gratingly high pitched scraping
sounds.
after a while i tried _szenariodisk_ (sp?, i got the cd on thrill jockey,
but there seems to be about a million versions on various formats), this was
much better. gritty chugging ambient, mostly short and even shorter tracks,
very nice. then went backwards. _diskont 94_ is the earliest oval (in
current form), and is mostly pretty dreamy skipping ambient. smoother than
later releases but still skipping and glitchy. the 20(+) minute _do while_
track is lovely. note the thrill jockey vinyl release has an extra ep of
remixes not on cd of _do while_ by mouse on mars, jim o'rourke, christian
vogel ... (i think, and another??), which is worth having. _systemisch_ is
pretty similar in sound and also good.
if you 'appreciate feedback' then the latest _ovalprocess_ is my my favorite
so far. much more abrasive in sound, while still maintaining gentle building
melodies through the noise. its like someone has made a glitchy ambient
record out of all the amp hum and guitar crackle that (mostly) used to be
all over the start and end of sonic youth tracks, say. where it sounds like
they've recorded plugging their guitars in. its a great noise. the us
version of the cd has a 20 minute silent gap towards the end which puts some
peple off. the japanese cd replaces that w/ extra tracks has more music but
is overall shorter. and much more expensive. i heard there's a 7" w/ the us
vinyl but don't kno any more.
there was a release before _diskont_ called _wahnton_ (sp?) which i haven't
heard but believe is more krautrock than laprock.
whew,
-martin
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