All bones and no Flesh!

[imomus]

Well, I've been promising these mp3s for a year. Oskar Originals comprises mp3s of the original versions of the songs on the 2003 album from Momus, Oskar Tennis Champion. Now you can hear and download these songs in the raw form in which Reproducer John Talaga (aka Fashion Flesh) heard them before he began his work of mangling, micro-engineering and re-splicing. All bones and no flesh, as it were. Also included are some extra tracks and out-takes.



MOMUS
Oskar Originals

01 Spooky Kabuki PREMIX
02 Is It Because I'm A Pirate? PREMIX
03 Multiplying Love PREMIX
04 Scottish Lips PREMIX
05 My Sperm Is Not Your Enemy PREMIX
06 Oskar Tennis Champion PREMIX
07 A Little Schubert PREMIX
08 The Laird of Inversnecky PREMIX
09 The Last Communist PREMIX
10 Pierrot Lunaire PREMIX
11 Beowulf (I Am Deformed) PREMIX
12 Electrosexual Sewing Machine PREMIX
13 A Lapdog PREMIX
14 Lovely Tree PREMIX
15 Palm Deathtop PREMIX

16 Erostratus PREMIX
17 Back Answers (by Robb Wilton) PREMIX
18 Infanticide PREMIX

Listening to the uncooked versions more than a year after making the Oskar album in Tokyo in late 2002, I'm more than ever convinced that what Sir John Fashion Flesh (currently hard at work with Oliver Cobol on the second Super Madrigal Brothers album) did was alchemy of the highest order. But these early versions do have their moments -- passages of naive charm, urgency or intimacy. For those who know the Oskar album well, it'll be interesting to see how much glitchery was in the originals... and how much wasn't.

I've been completely gobsmacked by your generosity so far -- consider your honour as responsible file sharers and patrons of the arts completely vindicated! Suggested donation this time, if you like and keep these files, is $4 or €3 for the whole album (plus demo artwork by Florian Perret -- click the small image for a larger one). Please bear in mind that these files in no way replace the Oskar CD, which remains the authorized version and, in my opinion, takes the tennis championship cup for the second year in a row. Front row seats are the price of a CD and are available at a record store near you!

Comments

Oskar Original

[(Anonymous)]

I think that this goes to show how excellent were the Fashion Flesh manglings and I hope this ends the negative debate.

I was surprised how far you had pushed the songs as I was expecting them to be more conventional and yet they are even stranger. There is more clarity in the vocals than in the original and the work has a looser more tentative quality. If anything the resulting "reproduced" album is much tighter and more 'pop' ! I love the extras especially "Infanticide" and am surprised this didn't make it to the final album. What other unreleased gems are you hoarding ?

Thanks for giving us this sketchbook; it illuminates even more your musings and documentation of the creative process.

RichardG