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An Awkward Guest

by Man Rei

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Smalltalker 08:45
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Between statements and nonsense is most interesting weather and that one thing that happened that everyone must know are you afraid of questions asked or inquiries denied speaking in tiny words is the smallest of all talks listing all acquaintances in endless wondering while failed in keeping touch meeting's the politest game we play it all the time before we know too much I've extroverted into this competing over volumes as people talk like software synths
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Trikdyti 08:35
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We check time and weather forecast; realize the delusion after. *** The sun goes down too slow, the sun goes down too slow
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An Awkward Guest 02:09
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An awkward guest weeping in your sublet.
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Sojurn 07:29
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Drinking on inconvenient days pretending to have things to do during hours of collective relaxation it has been snowing in plus degrees I ran and pulled a muscle in the cold midweek holidays in haze and freezing light the smell of skin is queasy solid sweat is salted ice is there sound to friction when slipping? work feels busier without a second opinion plucking lashes, idling time relaxing limbs gathering momentum manoeuvring in pastimes provisionally fixing the physique displacement can go a long way
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Lavendelspiel 04:44
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Momentum pt. 2 02:29
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motion driving sound driving time time moves in layers in another multiverse I was a better person I had no jinxes don't calculate everything into duration or calories energy becomes stamina becomes fatigue becomes a fever dream I need some stamina to keep momentum/ for keeping momentum one needs stamina to keep momentum, get's cyclic and pointless like when one runs around to keep momentum:
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Moonchase 03:48
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orbiting, you will not return home soon. will there still be someone in unhostile atmosphere clapping lashes like cymbals for you? Do we see the same air, when one of us is in vacuum? Is it oxygen or oxymoron? there is no reason without reverb anechoicly can one only distinct punctuation anechoicly is only punctuation distinct
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Fatigo 05:28
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I'm having trouble filling days. I've been having no sleep, I've been having intense dreams
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Hometongue Gorey 06:00
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Talking in our mother tongue we are talking past each other Licking phrases gulping fragments no haptics involved in certain cities stage talk is the same as sweet-talk; living in rehearsal space is the ultimate sublet I was looking for a bit more human-human all I got was self-life-coaching and people-loathing chocolate will make the voice go growly, sweetness is not articulation talking in our mother tongues we were still talking past each other, said goodbye then left in the same direction (once again with feeling)
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Finetude 02:21
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Kopfkino 03:38
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Kino on, aga pilti pole jooksed kui lint läbi linna.

about

It's been 2 years since the release of my first tape, "An Awkward Guest" on Oma333. To celebrate this freaky album, originally only available on cassette, I'm finally making it available digitally. It was a whirlwind of trying to figure out what I was doing and producing a whole album in 1,5 months in my then-bedroom-sublet and I'm still pretty proud of the outcome. I did not figure out what I was doing, though.

The edition of 100 tapes is almost done, with a few exemplars still available through the label (get in touch via www.facebook.com/oma333tapes ).



Here are the still-noteworthy sweet words that Gavin of Oma333 wrote prior to the release:

29.11.2018
"Kristin Reiman sent me an email two months ago asking if Oma333 was still active and if I could give her some feedback on her music saying it was "worth a shot". An hour and a half later I mailed her back to say that she makes beautiful music and that I'd be very happy to put out whatever she wants to. At that stage I was only planning on releasing just the two tapes to mark the five years but I'm proud and humbled to say that she was inspired to create 10 new tracks for this tape in a super short period of time, with only Trikdyti being slightly older.
She is Estonian but Frankfurt based and I hear shades of Ela Orleans or Death and Vanilla in her music, despite it all being very much of her own.
Hummed melodies either encourage in or chase away other synth lines, often overlapping in a way that feels very natural. Sections pulse with insomnia but the type that's somehow welcomed, like the soundtrack to a very late night which provides some creative use. Sometimes it’s nice to get lost in a maze and hey maybe the whispering walls are there to comfort instead of unnerve? Your call."

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released November 29, 2018

Tapes released through Oma333 (Stockholm, SWE) in 2018.
Cover art by Leif Ellgren (SE/KREV).

Recorded and mixed in Frankfurt am Main, 2018.

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