Space Diaspora
OY
Formats | Tracks | Price | Buy |
---|---|---|---|
CD Album | 16 tracks | £9.99 | |
12" Vinyl Album | 16 tracks | £15.99 | |
Download Album (MP3) | 16 tracks | £7.99 | |
Download Album (FLAC) | 16 tracks | £7.99 | |
Download individual tracks | From £0.79 |
Description
OY - Space Diaspora
OY's new album is a space opera - highly danceable avant-garde, based on a core of vocal loops, electronica and drumming. It tells the story of mankind’s prosperous future on a planet called ’Space Diaspora’ on which humans finally developed the ability to learn from their mistakes.
Life on Space Diaspora is a reflection and a distortion of our own struggling world, conveying sentiments of modern alienation and transnational identity. OY's thoughtful and humorous, tongue-in-cheek approach looks back at current times from the vantage point of a chaos-driven but blooming society in our own future. A vision which elicits tears as well as smiles, and praises the huge potential of the in-between.
The Space Diaspora fable is a framework which enables OY to make use of their multiple talents and create a playful and imaginative opus, bursting with melodies carried by Joy Frempong's formidable voice. As voices have remained the strongest form of communication throughout history, the album's electronic core is built out of transformed vocal samples. They reappear in synthesized form - as melodies, chords or patterns - backing the band's reflections on transhumanism, diaspora or transculturation. The resulting sound could be described as a futuristic blend of rebellious tribal jazz and electronica, which the band call "Oyxploitation"…
"This album is an ode to those who move, and an invitation for people to let go of fears and use their imagination to travel far. After all, in spite of all technological inventions, the farthest we can travel is still with our minds."
OY
Life on Space Diaspora is a reflection and a distortion of our own struggling world, conveying sentiments of modern alienation and transnational identity. OY's thoughtful and humorous, tongue-in-cheek approach looks back at current times from the vantage point of a chaos-driven but blooming society in our own future. A vision which elicits tears as well as smiles, and praises the huge potential of the in-between.
The Space Diaspora fable is a framework which enables OY to make use of their multiple talents and create a playful and imaginative opus, bursting with melodies carried by Joy Frempong's formidable voice. As voices have remained the strongest form of communication throughout history, the album's electronic core is built out of transformed vocal samples. They reappear in synthesized form - as melodies, chords or patterns - backing the band's reflections on transhumanism, diaspora or transculturation. The resulting sound could be described as a futuristic blend of rebellious tribal jazz and electronica, which the band call "Oyxploitation"…
"This album is an ode to those who move, and an invitation for people to let go of fears and use their imagination to travel far. After all, in spite of all technological inventions, the farthest we can travel is still with our minds."
OY
Tracklisting
CD Album (CRAM266)
- Opening
- Made Of Love
- Space Diaspora
- Transhuman
- Everybody Searching
- The Story Of Space Diaspora
- Something Of The Past
- A New Planet Is Born
- Shrugging Shoulders
- We We We We
- Same Same Different
- Collective Information Exchange
- Horizon
- Air Bands
- My Tears To The Ones In The Ocean
- Oracle
12" Vinyl Album (CRAM266LP)
- Opening
- Made Of Love
- Space Diaspora
- Transhuman
- Everybody Searching
- The Story Of Space Diaspora
- Something Of The Past
- Air Bands
- A New Planet Is Born
- Shrugging Shoulders
- We We We We
- Same Same Different
- Collective Information Exchange
- Horizon
- My Tears To The Ones In The Ocean
- Oracle