As Late As Possible [LP]

Oh No Noh - As Late As Possible [LP]

Oh No Noh is the project of Leipzig-based guitarist robot programmer magnetic tape crumpler and composer Markus Rom. As Late As Possible is the third Oh No Noh album. The focus of this album as the title suggests was patience. A creative lingering the self-imposed principle of letting ideas mature consciously leaving them lying and looking at them again in order to discover and refine new things. Always looking for new ways of producing musical sounds Markus Rom has been blurring the boundaries between LoFitronica postrock Kraut and pop with his solo project for several years. His main instruments for this are electric guitar MIDI robots tapes and samples. For As Late As Possible Rom expands his setup with a new sound sources (acoustic guitar banjo organ) and musical guests: Damian Dalla Torre (Squama) on bass clarinet and Andi Haberl (the Notwist Sun) on drums. As Late As Possible continues the signature of past releases and adds new facets. With ''Loot'' a straightforward and folk-pop piece finds its way onto the album and coexists with math-trained tracks like ''Dog Years'' or ''Dot'' which conjure up associations with Weilheim bands like COUCH. The tracks ''Bliss of Disconnect'' and ''Fawn'' were created in collaboration with the featured guests Liz Kosack and KMRU. The confidently unplanned is one of the principles around which Oh No Noh itself is also continuously evolving. Part of this development: the radio series ''Oh No Noh Radioh'' which has so far consisted of over 40 parts for which Rom invites a guest in each episode to research music together along roughly defined concepts ideas and inspirations. Together with technology composer Hainbach free jazz artist Limpe Fuchs and sound artist Elsa M'Bala for example encounters were created whose patient search and find and whose controlled coincidences also characterize As Late As Possible. With this will to create a song-like narrative to move to develop As Late As Possible remains suspended and searching. Its concentration seems light-footed its happy accidents well-placed the melancholic beauty of outdated technologies forgotten musical toys and broken noise sources always forward-looking. Music like the one that comes about when someone programs an entire robot band which then becomes just a friendly part of the whole. The artwork for As Late As Possible was created by Leipzig comic artist Anna Haifisch. The album was mixed by Adam Lenox and mastered by Frida Claeson Johannsson. 01. Murmur (1:25)02. Dog Years (3:37)03. Almost Everywhere (2:08)04. Loot (3:57)05. Fawn (feat. KMRU) (2:36)06. As ate As Possible (1:52)07. Orb (2:47)08. Dot (3:24)09. Missing The Point (3:03)10. Bliss Of Disconnect (feat. Liz Kosack) (2:05)11. Ore (4:06)