Osees: Sorcs 80 (Vinyl LP)

From the artist -

This album was a self imposed ambitious project for us. Something to kick in the creative flow. The last few years, having been a challenging time in general, felt like a good time for a pivot. The last two albums were so guitar and keyboard centric, I wanted a weird and fun set of parameters for us to work with. I demo’d everything at home on cassette 4 track (harkening back to simpler times) using drum loops, and just had at it 'til I had a pile of “songs”.

Tom and I chose one sound each using synths and created a range of 3 octaves of that sample, then loaded them into Roland SPD-SX samplers and learned the transcribed songs using drum sticks. The idea was to change the way we wrote and to have 4 people along the front of the stage essentially playing percussion. So no guitar, no keys.

As we were recording I kept thinking how the sounds, when paired up, sounded a bit like brass. So, we added a saxophone horn section to round out the horniness of the sound with a bit of reedy bell tones. Thanks to Cansfis Foote & Brad Caulkins on tenor and Baritone saxophones.

Black vinyl version.

1. Look At The Sky
   
2. Pixelated Moon
   
3. Drug City
   
4. Also the Gorilla...
   
5. Termination Officer
   
6. Blimp
   
7. Cochon d’argent
   
8. Cassius, Brutus & Judas
   
9. Zipper
   
10. Lear’s Ears
    
11. Earthling
    
12. Plastics
    
13. Neo-Clone