Phil Ogison alone, and with various collaborators.
Influences
Far too many to fit in here, but I'm indebted to everyone I've ever heard, or played with, thanks for making sense out of all the mystery, craziness and suffering of the world, in the best way possible, through art/music.
Kadykchan - Phil Ogison live at The AMBiENT PiNG Dec 2007
Depending on the nature of the music project, my guitar stylings will reflect what is needed in that instance. The same is also true of my synth work.
That said, it sounds like me.
Born Folkestone, Kent, England in 1948.
I have been involved in experimental Visual and Audio Arts since the mid 1960s, and continue working in both these areas.
I enjoy collaborating with musicians around the world, and two of the songs on the player (Dreamland Waltz, and Time Skipping) are from a new release called 0dB, featuring myself and Antonio de Braga. I played guitars, and synthesizers; Antonio played drums, percussion, bass programming and effects. Vocals were supplied by Anne Sulikowski (Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks) and Madzka Skalmierska (Lil Dreamland). The remainder of the tracks are a mixture of electroacoustic and neo classical pieces from my new album 'Singles and Rarities' available soon for purchase on BandCamp.com You may also want to visit Hotel Nuclear, the multimedia collaboration of Giancarlo Bianchini and Mathilde N. Poirier under the Arto-Zat collective, with whom I have also had a small collaboration on the soundtrack of the film 'V-C'.
I also play guitar with the psychedelic fusion band HAROLD and am currently working with Catherine Tammaro (Subduction Current) on a new album called The Moon Dandies.
My solo experimental project is called The Devil In The Design (www.myspace.com/thedevilinthedesign
Many thanks for visiting!
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Hi ! How are you doing ? I hope to interest you for the following:
Imagine:
You are an North-African immigrant to Spain or a South-American trying to get into US who has not much more than a few suitcases, his ability to work hard, willing to pay with slavery and to do dirty work - that no inhabitant of the country you want to go to would even think of considering.
You already travelled a far way and left many good friends behind that you maybe never will see again.
You stumble out of the nearly falling apart bus or the smuggler boat, where you had to pay your income of a half year to that grim looking people with hearts of stone - just to take you aboard.
You are sighing gladly that you survived the travel and now take your first steps in your new home country.
And you are soon aware:
You are disrespected, treated badly, your woman is seen as a kind of cheap prostitute, other people's children don't want to play with your children.
You are thinking of your former homecountry with feelings of sentimentality and you know there is no hope: you cannot go back...
The track is called "Spanish Immigrant". A spanish/orchestral/funky/trumpet track
Imagine: you are in a small space vessel. Lightyears and lightyears from home. You came closer to the gravitational abyss of a black hole than sane.
Your vessel is not powerful enough, you are drawn into that hole. You're trying to call home. You only get incoming alien conversation but no help.
This are the last minutes before the big squash - of that you know you won't even notice - too fast. You are desperate ! And then the only choice left - is to take what comes and not to die like a looser. You die head up.
The track is called "Hello Earth", a LoFi-classic from the mid 80s of mine and I hope: You're curios now :)
hello Phil:) sleepless night here,but i have to try to sleep,have to wake up in 4 hours.... i see that people like OdB project,i'm so happy:)and thank you for all amazing tracks!take care mag
It's wonderful to experience a small part of your mind in your music. Truly amazing, Phil. I thank YOU for letting me find you. All the best. Take Care.
Phil, wonderful music!! 'Sand..' is very visual to me. thanx for your comments on my latest..I'm going to go back to ambient excursions sometime soon , i feel it coming, just not quite yet ...check me out in about a week or two...
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