Did you watch the weird little robotic video I made? Well for those of you who don’t know, Kickstarter is an amazing way to help crowdfund musicians and artists. I want to make a piano record on vinyl and since I don’t have the means to fund it myself, I’m hoping that somewhere in the world there are people who might be able to help. I’m really happy with how it’s turning out right now, and I think it will make for a lovely warm old record which I can take on tour and sell and use to buy bread and make more records.
And as a brief re-introduction: my name is Rory. I’ve been writing, recording and producing music for the last 7 years under various guises. My first and most ridiculous name was the one that somehow stuck: ocdc.
ocdc started as a noise and tape collage project some time around 2007, in a little attic room on Newcastle Upon Tyne. During my time in the frozen North, I gradually began to incorporate more field recordings –this album was made with by re-appropriating my friend Aaron’s field recordings and mangling them on an 8-track with voice and guitar.
I then moved South, first to the Thames Valley, where I recorded some sad little pop songs in my mother’s garden shed. At was around this time that I made my first piano record, in one entirely improvised sitting on New Year’s Day.
Then the sea started calling, so I headed to the South coast and made some more tunes with my friends and toured the UK and played on the BBC and all that jazz. However, ocdc was still lurking in the background like a ghostly apparition, so to try and exorcise this demon I made a few different things: a piano record for my sister, a soundtrack for an experimental German film, and a strange little folk EP crammed full of every instrument I could lay my hands on.
Finally I moved to Berlin and realised that once again, I was surrounded by pianos. With a feeling of unfinished business in the air, I’ve decided that it’s time to make my first vinyl. And if you haven’t heard already, here’s a couple of brief excerpts from it.
Thank you very much for reading and listening – please spread the word, and hopefully you don’t mind the inbox spamming – I’ll be very careful with your details, like a hummingbird’s beating heart cupped in the palm of my hands.
Yours,
~ ocdc ~
~ rory ~
