OSSO BUCCO / LJUDBILDEN & PILOTEN

Title: Split
Ref: NSRD001
Format: CD (Hand-made card cover) SOLD OUT
Tracks:
Smelling Limes in Winter (OB)
Intertia Under Done (OB)
Carrying Pebbles in our Pockets (OB)
Sucking Limes Summertime: An Epiphany (OB)
Balcony for Beating Carpets (L&P)
Dictionary of One-Letter Words (L&P)
Audio pronunciation (L&P)
Domesticated Animals (L&P)
Saturday (L&P)
The organic feeling of the sounds is one of the connections between these two artists. While Osso Bucco offers textural, ambient layers, Ljudbilden & Piloten gives us compositions with a warm, acoustic feeling. Ljudbilden & Piloten's work spans from an escaping thread of processed field recordings to almost catchy beats and looped guitars.
The four tracks by Osso Bucco are made up of processed organic instruments: guitar, piano and melodica along with field recordings. The five tracks by Ljudbilden & Piloten were composed using rhodes, melodica, guitar, bass, zither, trumpet, strings, drums and field recordings. Vocals on Dictionary of One-Letter Words by Julia Persson (Adria). Recordings took place in Barcelona, Manhattan, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Oakland, CA and Malmö, Sweden.
www.greggkowalsky.net
www.ljudbilden.com
www.kranky.net
REVIEWS & MEDIA
"This is a nice release of two contrasting musicians, but which work wonderfully well."
- FdW, Vital Weekly (Belgium) www.vitalweekly.net
"El artefacto que sostengo entre mis manos es una creación en toda regla, minuciosamente concebida en su totalidad, desde el contenido musical hasta el digipack. Un total de nueve cortes, donde abundan las atmósferas brumosas y el detallismo abisal. Delicioso en su conjunto."
- Toni Rubies (Spain)
"Osso Bucco (Gregg Kowalsky) meanders in the rich caverns of textured sound, and more tingly and electric sensed pop ambient. Ljudbilden (Kristofer Strom) plays with our folk sensibility but thankfully leaves much of the music sparse and unprocessed.
- J. David Marston, XLR8R (USA) http://xlr8r.com
"Whether using field recordings or more conventional instrumentation, such as keyboards, zither and melodica, both composers share an interest of suspension between events. "This is the beard we are always growing", runs the Nosordo mission statement, and it shows."
- The Wire (UK) www.thewire.co.uk
"Los cuatro primeros cortes son piezas de ambient llenas de brillantes y frágiles capas de sonidos procesados vía laptop que se superponen hasta construir mullidas y agradables nubes sónicas. Para cerrar, con sencillas líneas de guitarra, melódica y electrónica, cinco composiciones de folk instrumental y minimalista emparentadas con el post-rock más pastoral y emotivo".
- Arnau Horta, La Vanguardia (Spain) www.lavanguardia.es
"Whoever decided to collect the artists' tracks onto a single release made a wise decision as the listener's overall impression is strengthened by their co-presence."
- Textura (USA) www.textura.org
"Quattro tracce per Gregg Kowalsky, aka Osso Bucco, cinque per Ljudbilden & Piloten, alias di Kristofer Ström, entrambi di casa alla Nosordo, con stile assai complementare a districarsi abilmente fra suoni elettronici ed influenze melodiche, atmosfere intrise da una rara calma, conseguenza di toni vellutati ed eleganti iterate evoluzioni timbriche. Assai rarefatti i trattamenti di Kowalsky, musicista nativo della Florida ma adesso di base a Barcellona, evocativo, rigoroso nelle scelte operate, sul suo computer a modulare registrazioni ambientali, suoni di piano e chitarra, dispensando emozioni e controllate dissonanze. Altrettanto minimali e melanconiche le produzioni di Ljudbilden & Piloten, che pure alle micro-emergenze digitali aggiunge strumenti tradizionali, riunendo l'operatività del contemporaneo con tessiture che alludono a fluttuazioni elegiache di sapore quasi classico. Qualità ineccepibile, accuratezza ed attitudine che rendono questo album un piccolo ma prezioso dono da conservare con cura.
- Aurelio Cianciotta, Neural (Italy) www.neural.it
"Osso Bucco / Ljudbilden & Piloten say everything I've ever wanted to say about how magnificent life is, in much better ways than my measly words could ever express. Music should be the sound of emotions, the epitome of things you can't say because there are no words. It should be so beautiful, it makes you want to cry. If anyone knows how to do that, it is Kowalsky and Ström.
- Eden Hemming Rose, Foxy Digitals (USA) www.foxydigitalis.com
"The musicality of these recordings makes the experience of listening a very enjoyable one. Of course the use of electronics in more widely accepted compositional song-like structures is not something new, think of the popularity of the label Morr music for example. Yet these two artists are able to stand out in the midst of the pact since they seem to have a voice of their own."
- MVK, Phosphor Magazine (NL) www.xs4all.nl/~phosphor