DEORLAF OBRUX, by XT

DEORLAF OBRUX

by XT

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jiristepan An alien band, whose music I still haven't fully deciphered and I have no idea if I will ever be able to. But I guess that's why I'm so fascinated by the fact that this saxophone-drums duo that sounds almost like some post-club electronica.

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	1.	DEORLAF OBRUX A 22:31
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Deorlaf Obrux

This music was recorded 'live' in London at Cafe OTO, 14 July, 2021. It was a concert to celebrate the launch of our recently released LP, Deorlaf X. Travel restrictions at the time meant we could not both be present in person at OTO, but we developed an approach to playing together-apart which meant our respective sounds would mix, be together, in the room, for the audience.

In advance we'd discussed, among other things, dub, and how to imagine 'pouring' sonic material from different sources (places and pasts) into the same real and imagined space/time structure - using the Deorlaf X sounds and structure(s) as raw materials.

On the night we assembled something new together, simultaneously, (re-)forming, (re-)mixing and (re-)pouring sounds from two places, channelled through OTO’s sound system, mixed in the room.

With a laptop each - Seymour in London and Paul through a live AV link in Brussels - we realised and rendered a re-working of Deorlaf X, simultaneously made-live and pre-pared*, for the limited-number OTO audience that night.

The original Deorlaf X is an intense (studio) compression of accumulated recordings taken from over nearly a decade of working together (mostly at OTO) with real and imaginary drums (Paul) and actual and potential saxophone (Seymour) remodulated through ideas and texts**, specific to each discrete project. This Deorlaf Obrux version continues and extends even further this ongoing, mutating and exploratory process, with potential and imagined tools.

*Another iteration of a re-imagined Deorlaf X is available as Paul's Deorlaf Z (version) for XT Deorlaf X Live via Tokuroku.

**Cafe OTO's website hosts a 'Deorlaf X reading room' where we share some more information about the background to this work.

XT (Paul Abbott and Seymour Wright), Brussels/London, December 2021.

TUSK would like to thank Paul and Seymour for kindly donating this album to our ongoing fight for survival. December 2021.

credits

released December 3, 2021

Credits

Paul Abbott - real and imaginary drums
Seymour Wright - actual and potential saxophone

Deorlaf Obrux was recorded by Shaun Crook, 14 July 2021. The original Deorlaf X (OTOroku 26) was recorded by James Dunn, Shaun Crook and Paul Skinner. Assembled, mixed and re-recorded 19, 20 and 21 January, 2020 by XT at Lockdown Studio, Cable Street. Engineer Shaun Crook.

XT works used: A’a recorded on 18.19.20, 21 November 2014; Love Calls recorded April 1, 2016; Submersa recorded on 17 October, 2016; Bird recorded on 3 October 2017; and Ornette re-imagining ‘Happy House’ and ‘Space Church’ recorded on 14 October, 2017; and works drawn on: P’ah recorded on 24 November 2015; XT with Container recorded on 9 August, 2018; XT with Pat Thomas recorded on 12 August, 2018; XT with RPBoo recorded on December 31/January 1, 2018/19.

The original Deorlaf X album can be found here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/xt-deorlaf-x/

*Another iteration of a re-imagined Deorlaf X is available as Paul's Deorlaf Z (version) for XT Deorlaf X Live via Tokuroku:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/paul-abbott-deorlaf-z-version-for-xt-deorlaf-x-liv/

**Cafe OTO's website hosts a 'Deorlaf X reading room' where we share some more information about the background to this work: www.cafeoto.co.uk/archive/2021/06/01/xt-deorlaf-x-reading-room/

Thank you: Abby Thomas, Carl Richardson, Fielding Hope, Jackson Burton, John Chantler and Shaun Crook.

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