Member Since: 02/12/2006
Band Website: www.zebox.com/oppedisano
Band Members: MARCO OPPEDISANO, electric guitar and bass samples. KIMBERLY FIEDELMAN, voice samples (KARMICOM)
Influences: Too many to mention
Sounds Like: With the exception of voice in KARMICOM, all the works
here are electroacoustic works consisting of electric guitar
and bass samples. THERE IS NO LIVE PERFORMANCE ASPECT
TO THESE PIECES.
STEEL SKY - Marco Oppedisano
Video by Leo Alves Vieira
CDBABY LINK for MARCO OPPEDISANO: Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar
OKS Recordings of North America is pleased to announce the release of
Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar, our fifth major
release. This CD-R is now available through cdbaby.com as well as
Amazon.com, Los Angeles’ Amoeba Records, New York’s Other Music and
Kim’s Underground. It will be available for digital download at
iTunes, Napster, Yahoo Music and many other digital download services.
Marco Oppedisano is a composer, a classically trained guitarist and
producer. Marco has worked with Oren Fader, Tom Buckner and Kevin R.
Gallagher, and he has performed the music of Glenn Branca. Oppedisano’s
music has been described by Time Out New York as “…mind-bending music
for electronics and guitar…hear Oppedisano’s intricate roar.†Tokafi
said, “…this is full-on, in-your-face and almost confrontational
music…Marco Oppedisano's music goes straight to your heart.â€This collection chronicles almost a decade’s worth of Marco’s
electroacoustic music. For Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric
Guitar, Marco abandoned live performance and found a paradise that
mixes extended technique, digital processing, and pointillist editing.
In some places he achieves a beauty that rivals a Fennesz style of
ecstasy and in others a distorted abstraction that could be compared to
Keith Rowe, but Marco’s inspired ability to shape shift his guitar into
so many beasts is a unique twist that is all his own. Each of these
pieces was primarily sourced from his electric guitar or bass playing
and finely tuned for months or years, much like the work of a sculptor
or masterpiece painter.
In his epic Time Lapse, Marco’s sound palette covers a great deal of
territory starting with deep tones that resemble a didgeridoo far more
than any stringed instrument before turning into a garden of tapewarped
squiggles that recall Tod Dockstader’s classic work. Karmicom is
a powerful piece displaying some of Marco’s most fierce guitar work
that ends in a swirl of operatic vocals provided by the only other
musician to appear on this recording, Marco’s wife, Kimberly. The End
is Near is a jump-cut distillation of the broad range that Marco is
capable of, easily hopping from gorgeous soundscapes to Zeppelin-style
riffing.
Recently, Marco has started an electroacoustic improvisational trio
with OKSRNA label-mates Bill Byrne (The Painful Leg Injuries) and John
Ibarra (El Plan De Aguavodka) called BIOS. They have recorded an album,
Retiring to Palermo to Make Apple Whine, due in late 2007. Marco has
had his compositional works performed by the Fireworks Ensemble, Glass
Farm Ensemble, Morris Lang and The Brooklyn College Percussion
Ensemble, and The Zyryab Guitar Quartet of Portugal. In October 2006
and February 2007, Oppedisano headlined concerts at Dominic Frasca's
The Monkey NYC featuring his electroacoustic works for electric guitar
and works for live electric guitar and CD playback.
This CD-R release marks the latest major release from OKS Recordings of
North America, a label run by Bill Byrne and his longtime collaborator,
Jonah Goldstein. OKSRNA specializes in artist-created CD-R releases
that cater to the tech-savvy listener who is ready for new arenas of
creativity for musical expression.
Record Label: OKS Recordings of North America
Type of Label: Indie