Stephen O’Malley

Da Googie

Prague Meet Manufacturing facility

Nov 16 2023

Dwell Overview

Someplace on the market on the boundaries of chance there are musicians who’re nonetheless pushing deep into the unknown and bringing again sonic missives to envelop us in. In Prague’s stark and excellent Meet Manufacturing facility venue two key gamers within the prospects of wooden and wire are every pushing the ante in their very own methods. 

Da Googie is Deb Googe – the bass participant from the legendary My Bloody Valentine a band who know a factor or two about breaking boundaries and who sporadic releases have been extremely influential sport changers. MBV are literally at work on their newest journey now – or lead Valentine Kevin Shields is especially at work on it giving his band mates plenty of free time while he zones in on the soundscape. Within the meantime Deb has stuffed within the hole with enjoying bass for Thurston Moore and different sonic luminaries however lastly she has determined to make her personal magic as a substitute of being a key participant in everybody else’s tales and it’s effectively well worth the wait.

This really is a solo venture with the bass participant stark on stage on her personal enjoying a six string bass and welding it to digital drum patterns and located sounds via a looper in a wonderfully executed journey into sound. That is no mere aspect venture however very a lot a music in its personal zone and the songs range from mesmerising drone items to a fascinating cascade of arpreggios hooking across the neo industrial drum patterns that create a platform for her bass creativity and, on one music, her solely vocal that cuts via the ice with a shimmering shadow play emotional perfection. As ever great modest, Debbie feels that her music is a private journey nevertheless it actually connects and the songs are as nice as their constituent textures. Removed from being the rock strong bass participant in the important thing sonic adventurers of those occasions Deb Googe has lastly emerged from her help function chrysalis as an artist in her personal proper and this debut gig is an exciting signal publish of prospects and new music…examine her now!

Stephen O’Malley is the core of Sunn O))) who’ve taken the sonic prospects of drone rock to its cataclysmic furthest frontiers with exhibits and releases that mix excessive quantity and mesmerising hypnotic simplicity to create a music that really is the everlasting hum of the universe. Solo he’s stripped again in each method with out the stage gear and accompanying musicians however equally transcendental with O’Malley enjoying one chord for an hour via a battery of basic amps from Marshall to Ampeg to Hiwatt in what seems like a deconstruction of the chord. 

Because the minutes slip by the pulverising incessant repetitive nature of that chord begins to splinter right into a myriad of textures and feels like a kaleidoscope of prospects as your ear tunes into the nodes and the layers of suggestions and chiming strings. Removed from being one chord surprise this system amplifies the ability of the guitar and its vibrations shred into an orchestra of prospects that really set the controls to the center of the solar. 

Publish gig you’re feeling cleansed by the quantity and the sound and in addition the everlasting prospects of the complexity of simplicity. It’s a lovely journey and it’s resolutions stick with you for days afterwards. O’Malley proves that rock can journey inwards for ever into the vortex of sound and that the sensual chimes and electrical drones inherent within the guitar can create countless beautiful prospects.