Bob Ostertag - Motormouth
Nothing excites me more than a new Bob Ostertag album. The acclaimed electronic music composer started in the analog days and is still in the forefront of electronic and avant-garde composition. The fact that he now releases all of his independent albums free through a Creative Commons license is even more laudable.
His newest album goes a little retro as he plays exclusively on a Buchla 200e modular synthesizer. As described from the Free Music Archive page, the 200e is “Don Buchla’s recent reincarnation of the Buchla 200, which he created in 1970, which was in turn the heir to the Buchla 100 he created in 1963.” It is a somewhat percussive instrument, at least the way Ostertag plays it here, yet also light and playful. This is a straight performance with no overdubbing or sampling. This is quite a pleasant listen without the socio-political overtones in many of Ostertag’s other works.
The link below is the download page from the Free Music Archive. However, you can also go to the composer’s web site to download not only this album but all his others which includes some nice collaborations with Faith No More’s Mike Patton.
good
Comment by steven johnson — August 19, 2011 @ 9:35 pm
THAnks
Comment by Sweta Muhametshina — August 22, 2011 @ 7:30 am
i want it
Comment by sam aston — August 30, 2011 @ 12:45 pm
i would like free samples
Comment by elizabeth — August 31, 2011 @ 8:52 pm