This Friday the opening of the exhibition The Object Lag in De Nieuwe Vide in Haarlem will be the stage for a Narrominded improv event with Puin + Hoop, Herman Wilken and Coen Oscar Polack doing an extended improvisation. Come listen, free entrance! As a teaser for this event and as a gift to you in general we share with you a half hour long improvisation piece by Coen Oscar Polack entilted Test Drive, recorded live earlier this week. Download the mp3 here or listen in the player below (note: the track starts quietly).
‘We go cloud-sailing, gazing into the far miles of the sky ahead with a delicate, heavenly spray on our faces, which soon overwhelms and overtakes the earspace. A downpour!’ Now that’s a beautiful to describe the track Under Trees It Rains Twice by Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken. Read more in the review of their album The Language of Mountains Is Rain on theΒ British website Sonomu. ‘Things are buzzing again around the Narrominded label’, writes the magazine Gonzo (circus) in their review of the new records by Living Ornaments and Psychon. They say that Living Ornaments make music with a clearer goal than Psychon, which is more fragmented, but nonetheless of high quality.
In this week’s issue, Vital Weekly reviews five releases by Narrominded: the three new Coen Oscar Polack releases, I Got Issues the Shape of Italy by Spoelstra en National Anthems by Boutros Bubba. The track Under Trees It Rains Twice by Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken was also included in their podcast. Vital Weekly calls The Skipping Monk by Coen Oscar Polack ‘an excellent sound diary of what was surely an interesting trip’.
Narrominded presents three new releases by Coen Oscar Polack. This exciting triptych takes you on a journey from a sultry nature reserve in the Dutch province of Utrecht to the rain soaked mountain slopes of Northeast India. These three cdβs have in common that they are all based on field recordings. On The Language of Mountains Is Rain Polack and Herman Wilken (half of electronica duo Hydrus) work these recordings into a musical context. Geluiden uit De Blauwe Kamer is a recording of a performance/installation in a nature reserve and The Skipping Monk is a collage of recordings of nature and culture that Polack made in India. All three albums are available for free download, but are also available as limited edition cd-r in cool digipaks sleeves.
Check out this beautiful video for the song Under Trees It Rains Twice by Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken. The song is takenΒ from their albumΒ The Language of Mountains is Rain, to be released shortly on Narrominded.
Digipak sleeves for three new Narrominded releases are being printed at the factory at the moment. All three releases will be available as limited edition cd’s and free mp3 downloads: NM031 – Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken – The Language of Mountains is Rain; NM036 – Coen Oscar Polack – Geluiden uit De Blauwe Kamer; NM037 – Coen Oscar Polack – The Skipping Monk (recordings of nature and culture in India). Expect them ready and available in two weeks…
Watch the video report of the Boutros Bubba cd presentation in Zaal 100, Amsterdam, March 27 2009. With Boutros Bubba, Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken (Hydrus), Donné et Desirée, Garçon Taupe, Katadreuffe, Makazoruki, Puin + Hoop, Roy Santiago.
