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Memory of A Cut Off Head

by OCS

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about

It is easy to forget (especially amidst the ringing of ears and aching of muscles after your typical Oh Sees show) that initially, OCS was a rather hushed affair. After the minimalistic brutality of Coachwhips, OCS was a diametric opposite corner of John’s musical world, quiet to the point of whispered in the wind, buffeted by the airy whirr of singing saw, soft and strange. Those early records especially had a rather contraband hush about them, as if the party has gone on all night and continues into the morning but everyone’s raspy from talking too much and gradually agrees to whisper and pantomime as they watch the sun come up over the hills. Since then of course, things got gradually louder, faster, crazier...the band evolved since then into the Oh Sees everyone knows. For the 20th Oh Sees release, 100th Castle Face title, and 20th year doing it, John re-examines the quieter roots of it all in particularly baroque and homesteadly fashion. Memory of a Cut Off Head was co-written with longtime collaborator and vocal counterpoint Brigid Dawson, recorded in total in John’s own Stu Stu Studio, and it’s lush, sumptuous in texture, but satisfyingly retains the gentle grace of the early stuff. There’s beautifully executed strings throughout, courtesy of Heather Lockie’s fine arrangements, horn arrangements courtesy of Mikal Cronin, and they even brought back the old saw - Patrick Mullins, that is - on saw and electronics. A return and a refinement of old forms, a few solemn meditations on life lived at high velocity, perhaps a respite from it…a softer side of JPD and distinguished company.




Available on physical formats here [^._.^]ノ彡
www.castlefacerecords.com/products/ocs-memory-of-a-cut-off-head

credits

released December 15, 2017

ALL SONGS BY JOHN DWYER, BRIGID DAWSON AND OCS

PERSONNEL:
JOHN DWYER : VOCALS , GUITARS , JUNO 6 , ELECTRIC BAG PIPES , MELLOTRON , PERCUSSION , THE THING & FLUTE

BRIGID DAWSON: VOCALS & KEYBOARDS

TIM HELLMAN : BASS GUITAR

NICK MURRAY : DRUMS

THOMAS DOLAS : KEYBOARDS

PATRICK MULLINS : SINGING SAW , HOME MADE ELECTRONICS & ARP ODYSSEY

HEATHER LOCKIE : STRING ARRANGEMENTS & VIOLA

ERIC CLARK: VIOLIN

EMILY ELKIN : CELLO

MIKAL CRONIN : HORN ARRANGEMNETS & SAXOPHONES


PRODUCED , RECORDED AND MIXED BY JOHN DWYER AT
STU STU STUDIO IN LOS ANGELES CA 2016
WITH HELP FROM THE MAESTRO ERIC BAUER ON STRING RECORDINGS

MASTERED BY THE MASTER JJ GOLDEN

ART LAYOUT MATT JONES

PAINTING BY JOHNNY NEGRON

PHOTO OF JOHN AND BRIGID BY JPD

BAND PORTRAITS ALL BY THEMSELVES
MUCH THANKS TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE STUCK WITH US THROUGH OUT THE YEARS AND PUT UP WITH ME PERSONALLY
BE WELL
JPD

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