patrícia machás, andré maranha, francisco tropa, manuel mota e david maranha
LP+DVD, 2010 ed. Serralves (Portugal) MACS-DVD01 and MACS-LP01
LP+DVD, 2010 ed. Serralves (Portugal) MACS-DVD01 and MACS-LP01
http://www.myspace.com/ossoexotico
Osso exótico - sablier by davidmaranha
Oustanding new release!! Although with irregular appearances in recent years, Osso Exotico is by far one of the most consistent music projects in Portuguese experimental music. "Sablier" is their ninth album,, and the band includes André e David as well, Francisco Tropa, Patrícia Machás e Manuel Mota. Truly deluxe LP edition, gatefold cover, with and additional DVD.
Fabio Carboni
Soundohm
In a plain virgin, nice cardboard sleeve with a small die cut, we find a LP and a DVD by my all time favorite Portuguese band Osso Exotico. Perhaps Osso Exotico shifted to the back of my memory, seeing David Maranha, at least in the last decade, more and more active as a solo performer and improviser. But 'his' band still exists and consists of his brother Andre Maranha, Francisco Tropa, Patricia Machas and Manuel Moto. The website of the label (which seems more like a prestigious art institute) doesn't seem have any information regarding this release, or the performance connected to it. It seems to be some kind of performance, which the band performed a few times, the DVD was shot on March 15th 2009 and the LP recorded a week later. I started with the DVD, in which I see two hands with paint or chalk performing some kind of action painting, but almost in slow motion. It also seems if the sounds of the underground on which this action is performed, is amplified. Slowly it is revealed
what the underground is and what the objects are, which are in the hands. I won't spoil that. There is also music in the background, organ perhaps, guitar maybe, but it stays in the background, and seems to be filling in the gaps. On the one sided LP the music is more in balance with the action, which involves, it seems, the same action but here the music is more upfront, which is quite nice. A similar, minimal approach which regards to organs and guitar, as well as the scrapping of the surface. The music is very gentle, unlike some of the more demanding solo music of David Maranha (which is more like Velvet Underground), and also, it seems, more loosely improvised than some of the more tighter composed pieces of the older Osso Exotico. Throughout however, in all its briefness (two pieces of twenty minutes), a more than excellent product. Osso Exotico never lets me down.
Frans de Waard
Vital Weekly
Forget "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" and "Savoy Truffle" – this is the white album that's been getting the airplay round these parts recently. Not just a single-sided LP either, but also a DVD, which explains the curious instrumentation: André Maranha and Francisco Tropa "play" bottles and sand, Patrícia Machás is on copper pot, Manuel Mota is on electric guitar and OE founding father (has it really been 21 years?) David Maranha is organ. The strange haphazard creaks and cracks come from the bottles being rolled sideways across grains of sand on a hard (amplified?) surface – though unless you pop the DVD in and see how it's done you'd probably never guess – its austere friction recalls Raymond Dijkstra's work, but unlike his stuff this is eminently listenable. Asssuming, that is, you feel at home in the murky twilight of, say, Miles Davis's "He Loved Him Madly", or the numerous Loren Connors outings that particular piece inspired. Delicate, haunting, mysterious stuff.
Dan Warburton
The Paris Transatlantic Magazine
500 copie per il nuovo álbum degli Osso Exótico di David (organo) e André Maranha (sabbia e bottiglia) con Francisco Tropa (sabbia e bottiglia), Patrícia Machás (bicchiere di rame) e Manuel Mota (chitarra elettrica). Un’uscita originale com un folder bianco immacolato in ogni sua parte - a eccezione di una minuscola indicazione di responsabilità – che contiene un DVD e un LP inciso in un solo lato, il primo registrato il 15 marzo 2009, il secondo una settimana più tardi. Anche la strumentazione dei cinque esula dall’usuale, come già indicato; la lunga improvvisazione dell’LP è realizzata su una distesa di suoni minimali e ovattati forniti dai due strumenti ‘classici’ (la chitarra di Mota è come sempre una meraviglia assoluta) sopra i quali si muovono i rumorismi accidentali, i colpi, i movimenti di bottiglia, sabbia, bicchiere. Gli stessi strumenti ‘organici’ sono gli attori principali del DVD, che svela quindi la natura dei rumori presenti nell’LP: il semplice rotolare dei vetri sui granelli, l’accarezzamento con le mani, ogni piccolo movimento crea suoni che si accostano al resto. Operazione squisitamente concettuale (il DVD è a camera fissa e con unici protagonisti gli oggetti e le mani), “Sablier” ha comunque valore anche dal punto di vista strettamente sonoro.
Stefano I. Bianchi
Blow Up Magazine
Formados em 1989, na altura com André e David Maranha, Bernardo Devlin e António Forte, os Osso Exótico editaram até ao momento oito álbuns. Embora com aparições irregulares nos últimos anos (principalmente em actuações ao vivo), mantêm-se como um dos projectos mais duradouros e consequentes na música experimental portuguesa. “Sablier” é o nono álbum e é uma peça ensaiada ao longo do ano passado com o propósito desta edição para Serralves, com formação constituída por André e David, Francisco Tropa, Patrícia Machás e Manuel Mota. Ganha maior relevância ouvida ao vivo, pelo trabalho percurssivo de André Maranha e Francisco Tropa, conseguido apenas pelo deslizar de uma garrafa de vidro sobre grãos (o som do vinil está óptimo e dá uma dimensão incrível a este trabalho). Sendo impossível de o fazer em casa, o DVD capta bem a experiência e é essencial para compreender e usufruir a peça.
Pedro Santos
Flur
Osso exótico - sablier by davidmaranha
Oustanding new release!! Although with irregular appearances in recent years, Osso Exotico is by far one of the most consistent music projects in Portuguese experimental music. "Sablier" is their ninth album,, and the band includes André e David as well, Francisco Tropa, Patrícia Machás e Manuel Mota. Truly deluxe LP edition, gatefold cover, with and additional DVD.
Fabio Carboni
Soundohm
In a plain virgin, nice cardboard sleeve with a small die cut, we find a LP and a DVD by my all time favorite Portuguese band Osso Exotico. Perhaps Osso Exotico shifted to the back of my memory, seeing David Maranha, at least in the last decade, more and more active as a solo performer and improviser. But 'his' band still exists and consists of his brother Andre Maranha, Francisco Tropa, Patricia Machas and Manuel Moto. The website of the label (which seems more like a prestigious art institute) doesn't seem have any information regarding this release, or the performance connected to it. It seems to be some kind of performance, which the band performed a few times, the DVD was shot on March 15th 2009 and the LP recorded a week later. I started with the DVD, in which I see two hands with paint or chalk performing some kind of action painting, but almost in slow motion. It also seems if the sounds of the underground on which this action is performed, is amplified. Slowly it is revealed
what the underground is and what the objects are, which are in the hands. I won't spoil that. There is also music in the background, organ perhaps, guitar maybe, but it stays in the background, and seems to be filling in the gaps. On the one sided LP the music is more in balance with the action, which involves, it seems, the same action but here the music is more upfront, which is quite nice. A similar, minimal approach which regards to organs and guitar, as well as the scrapping of the surface. The music is very gentle, unlike some of the more demanding solo music of David Maranha (which is more like Velvet Underground), and also, it seems, more loosely improvised than some of the more tighter composed pieces of the older Osso Exotico. Throughout however, in all its briefness (two pieces of twenty minutes), a more than excellent product. Osso Exotico never lets me down.
Frans de Waard
Vital Weekly
Forget "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" and "Savoy Truffle" – this is the white album that's been getting the airplay round these parts recently. Not just a single-sided LP either, but also a DVD, which explains the curious instrumentation: André Maranha and Francisco Tropa "play" bottles and sand, Patrícia Machás is on copper pot, Manuel Mota is on electric guitar and OE founding father (has it really been 21 years?) David Maranha is organ. The strange haphazard creaks and cracks come from the bottles being rolled sideways across grains of sand on a hard (amplified?) surface – though unless you pop the DVD in and see how it's done you'd probably never guess – its austere friction recalls Raymond Dijkstra's work, but unlike his stuff this is eminently listenable. Asssuming, that is, you feel at home in the murky twilight of, say, Miles Davis's "He Loved Him Madly", or the numerous Loren Connors outings that particular piece inspired. Delicate, haunting, mysterious stuff.
Dan Warburton
The Paris Transatlantic Magazine
500 copie per il nuovo álbum degli Osso Exótico di David (organo) e André Maranha (sabbia e bottiglia) con Francisco Tropa (sabbia e bottiglia), Patrícia Machás (bicchiere di rame) e Manuel Mota (chitarra elettrica). Un’uscita originale com un folder bianco immacolato in ogni sua parte - a eccezione di una minuscola indicazione di responsabilità – che contiene un DVD e un LP inciso in un solo lato, il primo registrato il 15 marzo 2009, il secondo una settimana più tardi. Anche la strumentazione dei cinque esula dall’usuale, come già indicato; la lunga improvvisazione dell’LP è realizzata su una distesa di suoni minimali e ovattati forniti dai due strumenti ‘classici’ (la chitarra di Mota è come sempre una meraviglia assoluta) sopra i quali si muovono i rumorismi accidentali, i colpi, i movimenti di bottiglia, sabbia, bicchiere. Gli stessi strumenti ‘organici’ sono gli attori principali del DVD, che svela quindi la natura dei rumori presenti nell’LP: il semplice rotolare dei vetri sui granelli, l’accarezzamento con le mani, ogni piccolo movimento crea suoni che si accostano al resto. Operazione squisitamente concettuale (il DVD è a camera fissa e con unici protagonisti gli oggetti e le mani), “Sablier” ha comunque valore anche dal punto di vista strettamente sonoro.
Stefano I. Bianchi
Blow Up Magazine
Formados em 1989, na altura com André e David Maranha, Bernardo Devlin e António Forte, os Osso Exótico editaram até ao momento oito álbuns. Embora com aparições irregulares nos últimos anos (principalmente em actuações ao vivo), mantêm-se como um dos projectos mais duradouros e consequentes na música experimental portuguesa. “Sablier” é o nono álbum e é uma peça ensaiada ao longo do ano passado com o propósito desta edição para Serralves, com formação constituída por André e David, Francisco Tropa, Patrícia Machás e Manuel Mota. Ganha maior relevância ouvida ao vivo, pelo trabalho percurssivo de André Maranha e Francisco Tropa, conseguido apenas pelo deslizar de uma garrafa de vidro sobre grãos (o som do vinil está óptimo e dá uma dimensão incrível a este trabalho). Sendo impossível de o fazer em casa, o DVD capta bem a experiência e é essencial para compreender e usufruir a peça.
Pedro Santos
Flur
