A sketch of a thing
recorded live
Catrines by Now-Owl
Monday, 18 October 2010
Friday, 6 August 2010
NOW OWL
About:
Now Owl is the solo recording project of artist and member of Nous Vous Collective, William Edmonds (Vest For Tysso). Experiments with bedroom recording, borrowed instruments and reverb and delay. Live he is occasionally backed up Nicolas Burrows (Glaciers).
Kind words:
"William Edmonds of Now Owl may not exactly write pop songs per se, but in his use of texture, tone and pace he has a real knack for bringing ingenuity and interest to his music. He manages to hold your attention better than a hell of a lot of people making this kind of stuff and he does it, I think, by varying the level of urgency with the tracks he layers. Something low and moany is frequently joined by something skittish and nervous and, without changing what was there before, it twists what you think you’re listening to into something else all of a sudden, and these shifts of perception make this music really engaging."
Song By Toad
Listen:
02 Old Gold by Now-Owl
06 Your Body, a Sea of Feathers by Now-Owl
01 The Gravel, the Stone and the Marble by Now-Owl
Soundcloud
Releases:
General Topography EP
Ball Game Songs
Under, Open, Heaven, Outside
Now Owl is the solo recording project of artist and member of Nous Vous Collective, William Edmonds (Vest For Tysso). Experiments with bedroom recording, borrowed instruments and reverb and delay. Live he is occasionally backed up Nicolas Burrows (Glaciers).
Kind words:
"William Edmonds of Now Owl may not exactly write pop songs per se, but in his use of texture, tone and pace he has a real knack for bringing ingenuity and interest to his music. He manages to hold your attention better than a hell of a lot of people making this kind of stuff and he does it, I think, by varying the level of urgency with the tracks he layers. Something low and moany is frequently joined by something skittish and nervous and, without changing what was there before, it twists what you think you’re listening to into something else all of a sudden, and these shifts of perception make this music really engaging."
Song By Toad
Listen:
02 Old Gold by Now-Owl
06 Your Body, a Sea of Feathers by Now-Owl
01 The Gravel, the Stone and the Marble by Now-Owl
Soundcloud
Releases:
General Topography EP
(download only EP)
Hair-Piece Champion, 2010
Ball Game Songs
Recorded live in two 15 minute sessions
Written especially for Nous Vous at Contemporary Art Society, ‘Rotate’, January - April 2010 (tape or download)
Hair-Piece Champion, 2010
Under, Open, Heaven, Outside
Just over 30 minutes of music from the last 6 months of me messing about on my own.
(CDR with hand screenprinted cover and poster with mini zine featuring new drawings, limited to an edition of 40 CDRs)
Hair-Piece Champion, 2009
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Sunday, 23 May 2010
Old Gold
Now Owl - 'Old Gold'
Free EP for download
experiments with 2 tape recorders, recording and playing, re-playing and re-recording.
old but far from gold.
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Monday, 1 February 2010
Ball Game Songs
Here is a free download of the piece of music I made for the Nous Vous show as part of 'Rotate' at the Contemporary Art Society in London, which opened recently as is there until April. It consists of two, fifteen minute passages recorded live. In the show it was on tape, in a walkman, with three pairs of headphones, so this is a rip from the tape, and is best listened to on headphones, with eyes closed.
Ball Game Songs (a) / Ball Game Songs (B)
Recorded live in two 15 minute sessions
Written and performed by William Edmonds, 2010
especially for Nous Vous at Contemporary Art Society,
‘Rotate’, January - April 2010
http://nowowl.blogspot.com
(Photos courtesy Contemporary Art Society, photographer: Matthew Blaney)
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