Artist: Raz Ohara and The Odd Orchestra
Album: Raz Ohara and The Odd Orchestra
Label: Get Physical music
year: 2008
Reviewed by: Woodstock Slim
Well, once in while an album comes out and it reminds you of a time long ago, if you're old enough to have this "time long ago" that is. I love all things bleepy as you well know and this fits
right in there. If you're a fan of Stars Like Fleas, Jane Rademeyer, Monta, Jesse Koolhaas, Skeletons of the kings of all cities, etc. you will absolutely love this. Even full grown Kid Koala fans would like this. Postal Service fans take the blue pill, this is not for you, really...
The music is tender and amorous, I'm tempted to say sweet but its too dry and dark underneath for that. Ok, maybe sweet-melancholy, hows that. It makes a kind of Bossa turn here and there. I'd love to help you but I know very little about the band at all, 'cept they had an album called Kisses round December 2007 and before that Debug in 2001 me thinks... which I obviously have not heard but will keep an eye out for. Raz from Berlin and Oliver Doerell from Denmark writes like a combination between Jim Morrison and Zack Condon (Beirut) which gives him that LSD-widow-Agoraphobic sound. Completely unique if you ask me. Been listening to this and Lightning Dust all week, I feel alive in their midst I tell you!
Oliver Doerell: "I regard you as a loner. You have this huge desire in you. "
Raz Ohara: "I must have made me afraid to lose. I have in my chamber and write a song. To make life experiences outside to collect. But I need because my reference to me around. Just like here in the bar, I love life. I love the people. “ I love the dance. "
All the way through there is a tiny organ talking "organic" in the background and it gives birth to an era of plastic, rubber and shellac new life. Told you it reminds you of things you don't really know or places you have not been. I've tried to play it load but it just can't get there. The music wants to creep and stalk you, wants to be your friend. By track 6 Raz made the music roll over onto it's back and his making you lean down out of your chair and scratch gently on it belly.
If more people listened to this album there would be no need for bombs and guns.
