Oscar Rohleder

  • Music
  • Photography
  • Design
  • Vaagner
  • Vaknar
  • A Sunken Mall
  • Event Series
  • Ongoing Series
  • Architectural Studies
  • Travel Studies
  • Comissioned
  • Digital Collage Works
  • Posters
  • Projects
      J. Carter - Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made of Velvet (Angelo Harmsworth's and Dis Fig's Reworks)
      Cassette / Digital [2020]

      In commemoration towards the launch of 'A Sunken Mall', the new Vaagner affiliated label which will see J. Carter release his debut vinyl release, PTP main stay Dis Fig and New Mexico native Angelo Harmsworth have revisited Carterʼs previous outing, 'Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made of Velvet', which was released on VAKNAR last year, and prepared two remixes that each rework one piece from the album.

      Dis Figʼs Rework is divided into 3 stages that take the listener from sentimental grief to indisposed reflection and rigours, purifying squalor, while Angelo Hamrsworthʼs rework is built around an ever moving and depth defying guitar stroke that, over time, expands into a tempest of bellowing machines gone haywire, all before reaching a final climax of pure, serene retrospection.

      PRESS:
      Review of 'One Another's Geography (Dis Fig's Terminal D Remix)'

      PTP-affiliate Dis Fig pays homage to the original work in offering slight alterations and vocal accompaniment. The artist’s cathartic lyricism compliments mournful piano melodies that slowly evolve into hardened drone atmospheres. Eventually, the howling top line fades into pulsating organ chords reminiscent of Kali Malone’s 2019 album The Sacrificial Code. Through partitioning Carter’s plaintive ambience, Dis Fig contemplates a longing for someone far away.

      -AQNB

      In commemoration towards the launch of 'A Sunken Mall', the new Vaagner affiliated label which will see J. Carter release his debut vinyl release, PTP main stay Dis Fig and New Mexico native Angelo Harmsworth have revisited Carterʼs previous outing, 'Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made of Velvet', which was released on VAKNAR last year, and prepared two remixes that each rework one piece from the album.

      Dis Figʼs Rework is divided into 3 stages that take the listener from sentimental grief to indisposed reflection and rigours, purifying squalor, while Angelo Hamrsworthʼs rework is built around an ever moving and depth defying guitar stroke that, over time, expands into a tempest of bellowing machines gone haywire, all before reaching a final climax of pure, serene retrospection.

      PRESS:
      Review of 'One Another's Geography (Dis Fig's Terminal D Remix)'

      PTP-affiliate Dis Fig pays homage to the original work in offering slight alterations and vocal accompaniment. The artist’s cathartic lyricism compliments mournful piano melodies that slowly evolve into hardened drone atmospheres. Eventually, the howling top line fades into pulsating organ chords reminiscent of Kali Malone’s 2019 album The Sacrificial Code. Through partitioning Carter’s plaintive ambience, Dis Fig contemplates a longing for someone far away.

      -AQNB