An ambitious sound and light project, six-track CD plus an enigmatic video and miscellaneous “bipolaroids” on DVD sealed in a round, tin box, tossed with a sallad of various inserts.
With a few self-releases already set free to beautify the world, Osmiroid, loosely (or not) affiliated with Mordant Music, finally hangs a shingle on the label door. Stars, Dots and the “New” Junk showcases its own junk and the junk of various Friends-and-Relations of such different sorts and sizes, to quote A. A. Milne. There are cassettes, discs and ideas available in small, intriguing physical editions (each a pleasingly crafted object) and in digital abundance. Guidance from the Master is its first official entry, an ambitious sound and light project, six-track CD plus an enigmatic video and miscellaneous “bipolaroids” on DVD sealed in a round, tin box, tossed with a sallad of various inserts.
“Gilt Corpse” chomps opens with the nasty demeanor of a cheap Italian horror flick and some tough but sound life advice from Rocky Balboa. “Bushy Corpse” bounces cutely and quietly for five minutes, but beyond this point, Guidance from the Master bubbles with toil and trouble. Its restless surface hides true turmoil beneath, which finally breaches on “Guidance from the Master (Part 2)” with buzzsaw blazes and the barely discernible voice of an old matron who gives me a kind of Madame Blavatsky vibe. Vintage radiophonic lab soundwave generators are then toyed with on feedback-fest “Exquisite Goblin,” the noisiest ghost in this machine but in many ways the most rewarding on repeated listenings.
Guidance from the Master is available on Stars, Dots and the “New” Junk.
