Tag: Ogredung

Artist: Tao
Title: Grand Hotel EP
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od039
Release Date: 2002/02/20

i’ve been hearing goood voices around this french dude tao after his amazing EPs on ogredung, and have been being asked several times about other releases from him.
well as always we try to satisfy our audience so here is what u requested, in a new _even_ more intellectual beauty-face.
this ep recalls in a certain way some previous airs; it begins with ‘expand’, a short cemeterial ambientish piece, deep and profound in its simplicity, where we can figure out in the obscurity blue ‘fate-fires’. with lobby, undefined voices introduce our memoirs into a palyndromous path (as the release date should say heh), and we can clearly feel influences and returns to the first subtle tracks. whistleable melodies, dressed with sub-drums and mech-chords as a soundtrack for our passage of the waxed corridor. the final track is certainly the climax accomplished; between crakies and reverbs, a tingled melody shows its face and multiplies with distant melancholy, to express a lament we can’t help hearing and quiver with it.
sir tao makes us all guests of his thrilled hotel; we hope to enjoy our stay, his shudderness! :))

Tracklist:
01 – Expand
02 – Lobby
03 – El Sur

Artwork:
Front Cover

License:
Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 Generic (CC BY-ND-NC 1.0)

Artist: Tao
Title: Subtle EP, Part 2
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od034
Release Date: 2002/01/14

this second package is really awesome; tao solves some uncertain points of the previous release and _astonishes_ us with ninja-flavoured evil beats we won’t forget for a long time… definitely not the usual 1-week cd, you won’t get bored by this EP even after months of continuous listening; but hey we’re in the hi-levels my friends! 😉
[Static revelation, a whole bunch in private conversation with the sun. It’s easy, they simply know the right words: a subtle language made of Jazz and shaky riddim.]
[Subtle lights, moon-lighted creek. We used to meet there. Broken Bottles orchestra, reverberating shadows.]
[What has become of these ludicrous plastic dancing flowers? They might have been kidnapped by the cellophane realms princes, just for their own pleasure. John Lennon was right. They captured the beats and render.]
[wakaX knows the truth. In this fairy, the old Romanian musician with his music machine knows how to steal children dreams. His wife is ready to weave them to make the soul brand Cape.]

Tracklist:
01 – Heliotrope
02 – Crescent Shaped Creek
03 – Cellophane Realms
04 – The Old Fairy Weaver

Artwork:
Front Cover

Artist: Tao
Title: Subtle
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od033
Release Date: 2002/01/09

ohdear we were lookin for some pure french idm, indeed, and here it is, at last!
this small 3-tracks ep dives us into a reverbered craky but mellow world, and intelligent ‘arioso’ deep bleeps, together with thin -hmm yea subtle- melodies mitigate our first impact with bigger sounds; whistleable xperimental airs for our so-tired ears and liquid retrigs accompain us in a frantic-but-oh-sohoneyish trip, and we’re glad for this! 😀

Tracklist:
01 – Clockwork
02 – Subtle
03 – Elapsed

Artwork:
Front Cover