HEDORO by OGON BATTO
| SKU | 104511 |
| Artist | OGON BATTO |
| Title | HEDORO |
| Label | AGUIRRE RECORDS |
| Catalog # | ZORN 40LP |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 25 - 2018 |
| Format | Vinyl - EULP |
| Import | |
| € 11,99 € 19,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Track 1
- Track 2
- Track 3
- Track 4
- Track 5
- Track 6
- Track 7
- Track 8
- Track 9
- Track 10
- Track 11
- Track 12
- Track 13
- Track 14
- Track 15
- Track 16
- Track 17
- Track 18
- Track 19
- Track 20
- Track 21
- Track 22
- Track 23
- Track 24
- Track 25
- Track 26
- Track 27
- Track 28
- Track 29
Description
Many years in the works, Ogon Batto finally unleashes his album “Hedoro”. A journey into Japanese soundtracks and 90's adventure-gaming.
Ogon Batto is Bent Von Bent from Antwerp, Belgium. Besides working as a visual artist around archiving systems and collections, he is also the co-runner of the Hare Akedod label, together with David Edren aka DSR Lines. Following his debut release, ÅŒgon Batto secretly started working on a second album Hedoro, meaning “slime” or “chemical ooze”.
Bent is immensly fascinated by Japanese traditional and contemporary culture ever since he first visited the country. Mixing his European background with these Japanese influences, he shifts easily between abstract electronic tracks and pieces with a more classical Japanese tool kit. Think Oneohtrix Point Never or Mica Levi composing a soundtrack to a fantasy game.
With an amazing sense for detail Hedoro's musical story - entirely composed with synthesizers - is reduced to a collection of situations and drama, with space for suggestion and imagination. Every track, how short it may be, is essential to the whole, maximizing the general dramatic effect.
The album was mixed in Sapporo, Japan with the typical sounds of cicadas on the background ( not on the album though ) and some glasses of sake. The ceramic sculpture on the front cover is a reinterpretation of Rolls Royce's "Spirit of Ecstasy”and is created by Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx.
