Moritz von Oswald & Ordo Sakhna: Moritz Von Oswald & Ordo Sakhna

Honest Jon’s HJRLP76 (Download)
Kyrgyz traditional music carefully recorded, retreated & dubbed
‘A kind of intimate scrapbook of the startling collaboration between the techno maestro and this long-standing musical collective based in Bishkek, devoted to the roots music of Kyrgyzstan. Loose-leaved but balanced, lucid and intimate, it sets out from stunning a cappella and virtuosic komuz and kylak, mouth harp and traditional percussion: not field, but expert studio recordings, using marvellous vintage microphones, made over several days in Berlin. Further, a few of these are deftly treated by Moritz, using Reichian de-synced double-tracking, and discreet effects. Also two ten-minute dubs: a deadly, signature Berlin steppers, plus its version; and an echoing, mystical drum session, recorded live on stage in Bishkek. And a side-long, dream-like summation: the locomotive, oceanic, clangorous, dread Facets. Ravishing, rooted, searching music; beautifully presented.’

Tracklisting:

Koirong Ku

Koichulrdyn Kongur Kuu

Drums

Fragments

Tushumdo

Facets

Mash Kambarkan

Talasym

Kolkhoz Kechteri

Bishkek, May 2016

Draught

Draught Dub

Improvisation