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Oh No Noh is the project of Leipzig-based guitarist, robot programmer, magnetic tape crumpler and composer Markus Rom. As Late As Possible is the third Oh No Noh album. The focus of this album, as the title suggests, was patience. A creative lingering, the self-imposed principle of letting ideas mature, consciously leaving them lying and looking at them again in order to discover and refine new things. Always looking for new ways of producing musical sounds, Markus Rom has been blurring the boundaries between LoFi, indietronica, postrock, Kraut, and pop with his solo project for several years. His main instruments for this are electric guitar, MIDI robots, tapes and samples. For As Late As Possible, Rom expands his setup with a new sound sources (acoustic guitar, banjo, organ) and musical guests: Damian Dalla Torre (Squama) on bass clarinet and Andi Haberl (the Notwist, Sun) on drums. As Late As Possible continues the signature of past releases and adds new facets. With "Loot," a straightforward and folk-pop piece finds its way onto the album and coexists with math-trained tracks like "Dog Years" or "Dot," which conjure up associations with Weilheim bands like COUCH. The tracks "Bliss of Disconnect" and "Fawn" were created in collaboration with the featured guests Liz Kosack and KMRU. The confidently unplanned is one of the principles around which Oh No Noh itself is also continuously evolving. Part of this development: the radio series "Oh No Noh Radioh", which has so far consisted of over 40 parts, for which Rom invites a guest in each episode to research music together along roughly defined concepts, ideas and inspirations. Together with technology composer Hainbach, free jazz artist Limpe Fuchs and sound artist Elsa M'Bala, for example, encounters were created whose patient search and find and whose controlled coincidences also characterize As Late As Possible. With this will to create a song-like narrative, to move, to develop, As Late As Possible remains suspended and searching. Its concentration seems light-footed, its happy accidents well-placed, the melancholic beauty of outdated technologies, forgotten musical toys and broken noise sources always forward-looking. Music like the one that comes about when someone programs an entire robot band, which then becomes just a friendly part of the whole. The artwork for As Late As Possible was created by Leipzig comic artist Anna Haifisch. The album was mixed by Adam Lenox and mastered by Frida Claeson Johannsson.
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Christoph Dahlberg draws fine lines in the music with organic sounds and crackling beats. After his highly acclaimed debut album TIME (2020, Sonderling Records), his second work Blackforms follows at the end of 2022, merging cinematic, experimental electronica, and ambient textures with astonishing compositional consistency. He knows how to peel out details through intelligent sampling, encountering the idea, capturing it and thus freeing himself -- subtlety. Blackforms holds an engaging gloominess that will fascinate you, too. Gatefold cover; includes download.
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Finding beauty, where one wouldn't suspect it in the first place. Discovering music, where there used to be only sound a moment before. Forming an orchestra out of everyday surroundings, the main thing out of the incidental, the fulfilling momentary situation out of the profane togetherness. All of this is part of the goal, meaning and sense of Oh No Noh, the project of Leipzig based guitarist, robot programmer, magnetic tape crumpler, and composer Markus Rom. All of this floats and shines through Kanzi, the second Oh No Noh album.
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