Phil Ogison alone, and with various collaborators.
Influences
INITIAL LISTENS:
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Charles Ives,
Louis Hardin (Moondog) Frank Zappa, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Brian Jones, Terry Riley, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) Steve Hillage, Robert Wyatt:
MIDDLE PERIOD LISTENS:
The Sex Pistols, PiL, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Robin Guthrie, John McGeoch, Robert Smith, Steve Stevens, Vince Clark, Captain Sensible, The Damned, The Buzzcocks, This Mortal Coil, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Cabaret Voltaire, Kraftwerk, Shriekback, Ministry, Matt Johnson (The The) Angelo Badilamente, Xmal Deutschland:
COLLABORATIONS:
LDT, Jeff Howard, Marco Oppedisano, Anne Sulikowski (BCOM), Matthew Poulakakis, Catherine Tammaro (Subduction Current), Antonio de Braga, Eric Hopper (Sylken)
Film Influences: DIRECTORS: David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,
Billy Wilder. Ridley Scott, Terry Gilliam, Fritz Lang,
Peter Weir, Tex Avery
FILMS: The Man Who Never Was, Clockwork Orange, The Birds,
Strangers on a train, Rear Window, Blue Velvet, Sunset
Boulevard, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, Wild At Heart. Inland Empire, The L Shaped Room, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Bladerunner, SF 'B' Movies from the 50s and 60s, Dracula (Love Never Dies) Trains of Winnipeg (Clive Holden) Amelie, Juno.
I was born in Folkestone, Kent, England 1948, and currently live with my wife and fellow musician/artistCatherineTammaro(www.myspace.com/subductioncurrent) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
I have been involved in experimental Visual and Audio Arts since the mid 1960s and continue to work in both these areas. I have recently written original music for a Documentary film 'The Last Chapter' by Makiko Ishihara (Grand Prize winner at the JVC/Victor Independent Film Awards in Yokohama, Japan) and Bikram Yoga Whiterock.
I play guitars with HAROLD, (Matt Poulakakis fretless electric bass, and Jeff Howard on electro drums, software apps audio/visuals) www.myspace.com/haroldtheband
My solo experimental project is called The Devil In The Design (www.myspace.com/thedevilinthedesign
Current collaborations include: OSdB (Ogison, Sulikowski, de Braga) secret project: Future collaborations include: Ogison/Hotel Nuclear/AZT fall of 2008.
The follow-up to 'The Perfect City', 'The Abandoned City' is finished and will be released within the next two months. I am honored to have had Marco Oppedisano (Guitar) collaborate with me on one track from this album 'Pripyat/Chernobyl.
If you'd like to see some sites that inspired this music, I can recommend the following:
http://www.englishrussia.com/ and http://seehere.blogspot.com/2005/01/abandoned-2.html
It's interesting for example, to open the site dealing with Graylingwell Mental Hospital in Chichester, England, to add a little visual reference to the music, and likewise for Kadykchan, Chernobyl, Promyshlennyi and so on. You get the picture?
Happy previewing! And many thanks for visiting! Cheers, Phil.
I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
Hi Phil, you had a really great show last night! I enjoyed it very much. Your music with those visuals had me in some other place...like drifting through Saturn's rings... I look forward to your next show. All the best!
Phil, how have you been, Well, it seems I have Flash player back, so i can now shower accolades on everyone again. i 've been very busy , with moving and everything associated with it and what-not. hopefully by the end of the summer(fingers crossed) I can get some sort of product ready to send out to those interested...I love the tunes you have up by the way!! see you around....Ron
Thanks Phil, .... with great pleasure I read these words. I think it is important through music test an emotion and I can say the same of your project. Giancarlo (H.N. )
Hi, thanks very much for the comment and for accepting my request. I'm just listening to Shore Defenses and I must say it's captured me. It grows so subtly and is full of some breeze that could go on for hours and continue to captivate me the whole time. It's lush.
I'm going to work my way through all of the tracks up there now...
