Økapi, Mike Cooper, Geoff Leigh – Pardonne-moi, Olivier!
2016 Off – OCD035 Belgium
Experimental
1 Melospiza Melodia
2 Sturnus Vulgaris
3 Rallus Limicola
4 Setophaga Virens
5 Numenius Americanus
6 Pluvialis Dominica
7 Picoides Pubescens
8 Megascops Kennicottili
9 Pipilo Erythrophthalmus
10 Lagopus Lagopus
11 Lagopus Muta
12 Hylocichla Mustelina
13 Gavia Stellata
14 Catharus Minimus
15 Buteo Platypterus
16 Contopus Cooperi
17 Chant Dans Le Style De Mozart
The album is a plunderphonic parabola of the imaginary world, mystical and ornitological, of the French composer of the XX century, Olivier Messiaen. A sort of birds’ catalogue, as Messiaen tried to do during his life.
As always, even in this case økapi composed a little sound-collagism opera, which includes a video development.
This is the soundtrack of this “movie”.
For this A/V-project, økapi is co-working with the italian video-artist Simone Memé, part of the collective MoreTv-V.
Because of his dixit plunderphonic nature, and for the occasion, økapi involved Geoff Leigh (sax/flute) and Mike Cooper (guitar) into his phantomatic virtual orchestra.
