1. My name is Bond... Jeeves Bond

What's with the Jeeves? :-)

The bass line is conventional, yet funny, the same cant be said about the
melody which, in spite glueing to the ears, seems somewhat exotic and
unconventional (in sonic interval terms).

There's not much complecity in the background, and even if it were, the
weirdness of the melody would get you off of it. The percussion hence, fits
in nicely, and the funny bass gets forgotten.

Then this "circus" like merry go round and a strange vibrating "guitar" like
pad breaths in, unexpectaly, and very peacefully takes into another
playround... pure elitist art here, blending acoustics and EM, "EM" more in
the sense of weirdness of unconventional scales...

Then percussion strikes again, nothing out of this Earth, but nicely
effected - togheter with the circus like ramblings and the more conventional
yet restless bass.

Again, detune surfaces, and the "arabic" like melody of the begining strikes
again, and strange at it may be, it stucks in your mind, as the sounds
behind become more and more (still hard to focus on) and the whole thing
starts to make a refreshing sense.

..Again the circus peacefull things... fluty sounds, the moogy bass in whole
its weirdness, the rubber percussion and the weird scalled melody.
I have to say "brilliant" since it's made "weird" sound so good and it's
recomended landscape for anyone looking for anything "new and fresh" around
here.


2. The wobbling Wardrobe

Wobling pad to start with.... funny chords, more suething of a soundtrack
than a commercial track... and wait... more weirdness modulation pads
follows... were am I? Wobbling is putting it lightly!...

Then something strange happens... A pure genious, of even beyond that, a
briliant progression of notes done on a "kato" like string thing makes this
song take you to unbelieaveble places... specially when an in-and-off tempo
arabic like line comes along.. and you just wait...

...over-produced brilliant rythm percussion surfaces, in awsome stereo and
professional sound.

Though the melody puts me a little off, kind of a out of tune 12th century
barbecue party, even if it reveals nice writing skills, it puts me off... it
sounds like Mike Oldfield out of tune.. the rest however is just awsome,
when the middle age rumble ends and the "tuning" and "off tempo" experiences
begin is... so fresh... then... the feeling, is it major or minor???

Again... the mike oldfield like improvisations (guitars and so on) put me a
little off, it takes to much time... but ends nice in a tonic-dominant
progression.

3. Ollism

The most brilliant percussion I've ever heard so far. Jarre should get a
load of this.
BBBBRRRRRIIIILLIIANT!!!!!

Sadly, it's not pushed to the limit.... it remains mainly noise, I'dd go a
bit further, that is, If I'dd achieved such a brilliant work with the
multi-sounds percussion.

This is a work of pure art, exclusive (at least to me) and very elitist
mainly because it aint pushed at places it could go, and it could go very
far (would you license it to me for free? :-) )



4. The Runner

Fast paced piece. A mix between Mike Oldfied's guitar ramblings and Otso's
usual "circus" like chord progressions... still, the chorus glues to the
ears, even so "unusual", what the F+++ progressions are going on here????

Along the album, the sounds in the background are brilliantly engineered,
though you can get distracted by the foreground weirdness (as I said), and
this is the kind of soundtrack I'dd expect in Georges Pompidou.

The music becomes comercial like hell when a stereo guitar starts doing
microtuning pitch bends with a reso arpeggio behind... until some
"kurzweillish" metallic sound comes along adding, again, the elitist thing
to it... still, brilliant, the guitar in the back is awsome.

Hipnotic, so much happening I cant write it all, and only with headphones
will you get it all... and wait until a "shamisen" like thing comes along
and starts with the weird scales.. again...

Where am I? :-) Ten years away? Hmm... I would not say that, but it's a hell
of a way of showing a path. Strange sounds, strange everything (is this the
fetish? going all against conventional?). Master like arrangements, many
details, all in place, what work it must have had givven!!!

Though I cant say much about the sound, whichs is near perfect, the drums
could use more "dinamic" power to stuff the music in yer stomach. The music
sounds perfect with headphones (you seem to use a "small room like" reberb,
but with loudspeakes, it covers some details.

5. Broken code

Mind blowing poly-rythmic track... You have to hear it to believe it. I'dd
buy the album just on this one (thanks for offering it).

Again the "comedy" with guitars and "circus" like progressions and "dot
paragraph" like musical sentences. The percussion plays beatifully with the
pads, weird (as if anything was normal here), electronics are everywhere
now, as is the unexpected factor... where is this going? Perhaps the guitars
will help, but wait... no... yes.. no... yes... perhaps?...

Now it sound more like a roman orgie soundtrack but... wait... weirdness is
back, or is it?
Yep, great wobling with poly-rythmic layers, orgasm to your ears garanteed.
A must listen.

And unexpected again... Electronics at its most pure state... and comes a
guitar to break it up.. hold on... :-) Broken code making all sense,
finally... in the myst of "almost chaos" comes the sense... wait, forget the
later.


6. Light Music for Small masses

A "Kalimba" out of tune starts with a very nice "sleeping" out of tune and
scale melody, then wierd percussion hits on, with some nice delightfull
electronic effects, better listenable with headphones (the speakers tend to
give it more room and "hide it").

Nice work around the main "kalimba" melody, a headphones must, revealing
amazing eye (or hear) for detail.. gosh, I get tired just thinking how much
work must of had gone into production, how many layers and tracks of sound
this has.

A nice unexpected distorted twist comes along, and gets blended with the
metalic kalimba... amazing, nothing I've ever heared so far... so strange
yet... it makes sense.



7. Platonaut

Debussy with a better piano I'dd say... The weird two chords on which the
piano runs sounds familiar with some weird variations, but nice bass and
conventional strings make this the most dream like piece, really dreammy and
unconventional... colorfull and weird, welcome to wonderland, Alice.

The most "conventional" sounding track, yet, "dissonant" almost "atonal",
but wont shock any hears. Makes perfect sense in matters of progression,
structure, and little is "unexpected" though the "surprise" factor is
present, its not as contrasting as it was thus far.

Again, brilliant gigantic production.
Weirdness strikes with dissonant chords, a jazzy bass and Otso starts,
again, breaking the rules, not much, but enough to again, make this into an
elite song and for prepared ears only... A page of a score ain't enough to
name his chords...

Gladly it gets dreamy again... conventional "almost", but enough to
understand this dude is "normal" afterall" :-)



6. (why 6 again????) Inzect Danz

Once again, briliant work with effects production and noise effects into the
percussion, altough the rythm is quite standard (and again could gain on
more dinamic range), and here we go into Mike Oldfields "almost" like Celtic
rumblings, except it aint Celtic, but it's the same "500 notes per sec"
tactic, always full speed ahead, I wonder what comes next, HELP... no
breacks!

The circus chords humor again, with super sophisticated processing, then
comes the guitar over some ragtime rythm... and it changes to wobbling
hyper-processed pattern, amazing, but could use more dinamics.. the guitar
is very good, it's dialog glues the listener, but grows into what???...
hmm?...

Just a long jam of... who knows... I dont.... Weird and non weird, but jam
all along, not structure, no nothing... a mess... but wait.. here comes
perfect sense again, being pithed up, down, speeded up and whatever you can
think of... just variations... I need a rest. :-)


9. Re-Ollism

Ollism "Re" indeed. Again brilliant work with sound effects, but the
short-reberb, brilliant sounding in headphones, kills it a bit live, IMHO.

An experimental gaze over music with no notes or tone, would benefit a few
chords bass and melody just to see how it would do :-). Still, sounds great,
industrial and somewhat "Playstation 2", dont ask me why.

A brilliant work of post production, but lacks something to my pair of
ears... (can I use it license free? :-) - this is the best complement you
could have from me).

The "aqua" percussion gives it a tribal feel, and soon you feel in a
sourcery ritual, back in stone age just thumping on whatever is at hand and
you almost feel the need for at least a pentatonic scale to make a shy
apearence but no... no "music", in a conventional way that is...


10. Saurus

Evolving pads to make you want to explode... a tonal environment that really
IS A MUST LISTEN to any EM lover outhere, Jarre or Stark, this covers all
territory... the most "ambient" creating piece I've ever heard.

It's a painting, not a music. Though the bass line and the high pitch pads
towards the middle give a kind of "Terminator" feeling, allong with a
"electricish piano" arpegio, still, you get back to the amazing atmosphere
mode.

The sounds, the scale, the percussion (which could BENEFIT WITH ORE
DINAMICS) really takes into a world... I mean it literally, this is genious
work of art and should not go overlooked in the history books (though I'dd
remove a part here and there, the atmospheric bits are pure... art).

So, in a myst of ambiance and "sleeping" electric piano/bass piece you are
carried across a dreammy atmosphere into a industrial comedy (again) weird
scaled world of sounds (even the "piano" sounds out of tune")

Altough it started as ambient, you now are introduced to an orgasm of EM
sounds, blended with an organ (have you any special foundness to circus???),
the again thin percussion is good enough to keep the pace and unexpected
variations come along, though they are not shocking.

Warn: it becomes overall "elitist" and a work of art for "conesseirs",
though it really opened up a lot of horizons to me. Brilliant to say the
least, a must have, not commercial, but a lot of sweat must of come into
this... and Otso speeds up the end... :-)


Conclusion:

I thank Otso for the oportunity to listen to this, otherwise neglected for
market reasons, masterpiece of art. I'dd not be so elitist, and would take,
lets say, 6 mins of this album to another lever (lower - commercial :-) ),
and I like to make things a bit simpler... it's like a chaos of great ideas
organized into a plethora of order with unexpected twists, brilliant
production, detailed to the exageration and well worth its price - though
not charts material because Otso is light years away...

"Or perhaps a mind less exasperated by the bounds of perfection"
What would take to mime the real world - The Architect, in the Matrix
Reloaded

Kind Regards,
AMR
http://amr-music.no-ip.info:81/beyond_em

Álvaro M. Rocha