{"product_id":"osmium-osmium-white-vinyl-lp","title":"Osmium [White Vinyl LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe self-styled ritualistic electro-mechanical ensemble OSMIUM is\u003cbr\u003ea veritable supergroup. Made up of Oscar-winning composer and\u003cbr\u003einstrumentalist Hildur Guðnadóttir, veteran engineer and producer\u003cbr\u003eJames Ginzburg, Senyawa’s idiosyncratic vocalist Rully Shabara and\u003cbr\u003eGrammy-winning sound designer \/ producer Sam Slater, while each\u003cbr\u003emember brings along a laundry list of accolades, the project is far\u003cbr\u003egreater than the sum of its parts.\u003cbr\u003eAlloying burnished electroacoustic soundscapes with dense,\u003cbr\u003emetallic drones, barbed rhythms and buckled, bio-mechanical\u003cbr\u003evocalizations, OSMIUM’s eagerly awaited debut album doesn’t try\u003cbr\u003eto cast a rigid future.\u003cbr\u003eRather, it tempers a viscous flow of unorthodox speculations that\u003cbr\u003esmolders through the distant past, blazing a trail all the way to the\u003cbr\u003efrontier of fate. Absorbed by questions about the relationship\u003cbr\u003ebetween humans and technology, tradition and progression, the\u003cbr\u003eindividual and the group, OSMIUM channel their experience and\u003cbr\u003eexpertise into a set of forward-thinking sonic interrogations that\u003cbr\u003eskewer established cultural preconceptions. And although genre is\u003cbr\u003eacknowledged - the album draws from folk, doom metal, 20th\u003cbr\u003ecentury minimalism, industrial music and extreme noise - there’s\u003cbr\u003enever a sense that it’s riveted firmly in place.\u003cbr\u003eWidely known for her soundtrack work (including ‘Joker’ and\u003cbr\u003e‘Chernobyl’) Guðnadóttir plays the halldorophone, a unique\u003cbr\u003ecello-like electroacoustic instrument designed by Halldór Úlfarsson\u003cbr\u003ethat allows the performer to harness unstable feedback loops.\u003cbr\u003eTaking his cues from this process, Slater (who has worked alongside\u003cbr\u003eJóhann Jóhannsson, Ben Frost and others) generates rhythms\u003cbr\u003eusing a self-oscillating drum he designed with KOMA Elektronik\u003cbr\u003eand Subtext boss and Emptyset member Ginzburg responds in\u003cbr\u003ekind, producing booming tambura-like sonorities from a device he\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003edeveloped himself based on the monocord, an ancient single-\u003cbr\u003estringed resonator.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOSMIUM synchronize the three unique instruments using a custom\u003cbr\u003esystem of robotics to generate basic rhythms that underpin their\u003cbr\u003eimprovisations and experiments, and Shabara’s alien tones supply\u003cbr\u003ethe band with their conceptual fulcrum. The vocalist is one of South\u003cbr\u003eAsia’s most recognizable underground artists, and the sounds he’s\u003cbr\u003eable to create using exhaustively rehearsed extended techniques\u003cbr\u003eare so distinctive that he’s been studied by scientists back home in\u003cbr\u003eIndonesia.\u003cbr\u003eNever weighed down by needless sound design or modish\u003cbr\u003eornamentation, it’s music that feels authentically experimental;\u003cbr\u003eOSMIUM have figured out an awkward symmetry between their\u003cbr\u003ediscrete approaches, concentrating their gaze on the outcome\u003cbr\u003erather than the process. The result is a work of science fiction that’s\u003cbr\u003edriven by interaction, conversation and sensation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOsmium 0\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOsmium 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOsmium 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOsmium 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOsmium 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOsmium 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOsmium 6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOsmium 7\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 617308097450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Invada Records\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6.20.25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Osmium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58254035419217,"sku":"205888","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/4423360-3385675.jpg?v=1759469030","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/products\/osmium-osmium-white-vinyl-lp","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}