Under the World

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An electronic splinter group comprising members of UK-based noise-punk DIY underground stalwarts Action Beat, OMA (Dutch for "Grandmother") are Don McLean, Harry Taylor, James Carney, Bianca Biblioni, and G.W. Sok - former vocalist with The Ex - now presenting their second album, "Under The World".

With the core members geographically separate (situated between Bletchley, New York City, Manchester and Rotterdam), but united by a shared desire to explore electronic music elements, "Under The World" began in 2018 as an online exchange of ideas, improvisations and drop-boxed WAV files. Culminating in an in-person collaboration in July 2019 at the "holiday home on acid", Devon Analogue Studio (described by McLean as being "full of vintage synths we definitely couldn't afford").

The result is an extraordinarily dark record charting a murky parasonic subterrain all of its own, an exhilarating, defoliated, forbiddingly woozy sound that merges brittle electronic rhythms with morose ambience, sideways humour, even moments of raw emotive grief - serving, both in process and in sound, as an eerie anticipation of the face-masked, disinformatic dystopia of the COVID-wracked world now receiving it.

Transformed by G.W. Sok's surreal poetic ruminations, Bianca Biblioni's mournsome vocals (the solemn "Crossing") and the downright creepy whisper of Action Beat’s James Carney ("Checklist Of Regret"), these are tracks every bit as textual as they are textural - lyrics offered as obliterative fragments, with references to Allen Ginsberg ("Under The World") and Bacharach & David ("Ello Veeyee") battling ruinous despair, disgust, and eventually, amidst all the synthesized squalor, even glimmers of hope. As Harry Taylor puts it, it's an album that represents "growth, reflection, humour and moving on" - Alan Harrison, 2021

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1.	Ex Raver 05:39	buy track
2.	Simple Desire 02:41	buy track
3.	Eye in the Sky 03:39	buy track
4.	Eternally Sinking 02:56	buy track
5.	Shut the Door 03:59	buy track
6.	Smoke You 03:45	buy track
7.	Checklist of Regret 03:44	buy track
8.	Processing Decision 04:16	buy track
9.	Crossing 05:00	buy track
10.	The Solution 00:33	buy track
11.	That God of Yours 02:12	buy track
12.	Ello Veeyee 02:28	buy track
13.	Under the World 03:11	buy track

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Tracks 2, 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13: James Carney and Harry Taylor Recorded parts in Manchester, UK, December, 2018, and Bianca Bibiloni and Don McLean recorded parts at Machines With Magnets, Providence, USA, December 2018.

G.w Sok recorded Vocals, January, 2019.

Track 12 instrumentation by Armando Morales.

Lyrics by G.W Sok and Bianca Bibiloni

(Under the World is basically a poem by Allen Ginsberg)

Mixed at Machines with Magnets, Providence, USA by Seth Manchester, January 2019.

Tracks 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 recorded at Devon Analogue, Devonshire, UK, July, 2019 By Bianca Bibiloni, James Carney, Don McLean, Harry Taylor.

Vocals and Lyrics By Bianca Bibiloni

Mixed By Harry Taylor in Manchester, UK, throughout winter of 2019.

All tracks mastered by Simon Mawson, Bristol, UK, December 2019.

Photographs by James Carney

Design By Lewis McLean

Contact OMA: fortissimorecords@hotmail.com

VL020 - 2020

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released February 5, 2021

Oma: Bianca Bibiloni, James Carney, Don McLean, G.W Sok, Harry Taylor

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