Oudemian, by Mári Mákó

Oudemian

by Mári Mákó

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1.	Bell 03:44		buy track
2.	Waves 03:37	lyrics	buy track
Waves are coming. Who am I to stand it? Mountains are collapsing. Who am I to stand it? The egg is cracking. Who am I to leave it?
3.	Shedding 03:29		buy track
4.	Oudemian 06:12		buy track
5.	Homecoming 03:57		buy track
6.	All in all 04:16		buy track

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"This exciting debut is rather avant-garde electronic and post-club than neoclassical and makes you hungry for more controlled and confusing complexity."
Groove magazine

The debut album of Mári Mákó, Oudemian, fuses introspective instrumental and vocal textures with live electronics. It is a sonic journey of finding inner strength through crisis, of overcoming existential angst and rebirth.

The title was invented as a combination of two-words: "Ouroboros" and "Demian." Ouroboros is an ancient symbol of a snake biting its own tail representing the circle of life, and Hesse's novel Demian depicts a young boy struggling to find his new self-knowledge and his place in an immoral world. As it happens, Oudemian also holds an actual meaning in ancient Greek: "none."

The meeting of these concepts drive the narrative and musical evolution of the album, which moves from a place of fragility and mystery and arriving at a place of reflection.

This album of experimental electronic music contrasts dark synthesizer drones, glitch, and beats with organic orchestrations of acoustic instruments and the emotive power of the human voice.
It features Mako's self-designed and programmed electronic instrument called the Schmitt, which works with chaotic sound processes influenced by accelerometer and light sensors. Its constantly changing timbre channels life's uncertainty as it cuts through and fragments the flow and equilibrium of -string arrangements and distant voices singing mantras. As the album progresses, these elements converge over deep empowering beats that carry through a message of purpose.

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world."
Herman Hesse, Demian

credits

released May 28, 2021

Composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Mári Mákó
at Coolhaven Collective, and Worm Sound Studio Rotterdam in 2020-2021.
Mastered at Snapmastering by Lukas Turza
Art direction and design by the one and only Oddkin studio.

Saxophone on ‘Waves’ by Laura Agnusdei.
Double bass on ‘Bell’, ‘Shedding’ and ‘Homecoming’ by Julian Sarmiento.
Violin on ‘Bell’, ‘Oudemian’ and ‘Homecming’ by Matthea de Muynck
Vocals on ‘Homecoming’ by Sarah Albu.
Trumpet on ‘Shedding’ by Miklós Mákó.

Special thanks to James O’Callaghan and Yannis Kyriakades.

The album is supported by Fondspodium Kunsten and won the Sena Music Production Fund.

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