Hello Spiral means, kind of, to look straight into the eye of a spiral, without blinking. Hello Spiral is o.lamm’s second official long play, after Snow Party, which was released in april 2002. Hello Spiral is located thousand light years from its predecessor, even if it doesn’t turn its back to it all the same. Hello Spiral is a very singing and sung record. Zoé and Kumi from The Konki Duet, Noak Katoi, The Very Ape, Davide Balula, Odot himself, as well as a twenty people choir gathered for the occasion (the Lucifer Amp Choir) sing very nice cryptic words, making the album very much alike something that really resembles pop music. Hello Spiral is one big whole cut in two halves. The first half is quite rhythmic and steep, the second is calmer, yet drilled with quite dangerous asperities. Hello Spiral is full of instruments and musicians, but also full of very abstract sounds, which go “scriiitch” and “sprooootch”, and which come from nature and aural reality as well as from very obscure sound synthesis and sound processing softwares. Olivier like to call this his laptop psychedelia and actually finds it quite fun. Hello Spiral is indeed very proud of itself.
"France’s O.Lamm gives us Hello Spiral, a self-consciously manic album so full of ideas that it barely has time to execute them before racing on to others with a smug smirk on its face. (...) I’d venture to say that this is the first “fun” record I’ve heard in ages that bears scrutiny on repeat listens – the tapestry woven here, while charming and magnetic, is also layered thick with carefully considered details, many of which only appear with, in my case, the 14th or 15th go. I am continually baffled by the fact that O.Lamm and his label mates (Hypo, Domotic, Davide Balula) are given so little due when it is so evident that they are at the vanguard of contemporary music. Do note that I refuse to qualify it as ‘electronic’ music because, while much of it is synthesized, there is an inordinately strong element of the man behind the machine, and this fusion of humanity with the inescapable influence of post-Warp cut-and-pasting creates a domineering force that could very well show everyone a thing or two about the genre. Buy this record, and blast it for everyone around" (Tom Meluch, Atmosphr.org)
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Tracklist :
1. That Very Moment Rewritten with Bulbs Inside (Sung by Zoé Wolf).
2 .Bonjour Spirale.
3. Rivets In The Skin Of A Flying Fortress Pt.I & II (Sung by TheVery Ape & Odot).
4. La Variable Poney (Sung by Davide Balula).
5. Street Cred.
6. Kopavogur Revisited & Tennis/Piano In Kyoto (sung by Noak Katoi).
7. Lucifer Amp Song n°667: Fall Off The Boat (Sung by Zoé Wolf & Odot).
8. Pure Fucking Armageddon (The Molecular Integrity of Shit is Small Potatoes/Breast-Feeding in Cairo/Attack of the Toothless Predators/Into The Killing Field of Armageddon, the Chaos Scream Into A Refrigerium of Turquoise That Was Embossed With Spinning Planet Wheel and Stars/Echo Helstrom/ Moronic Sidekicks/Diagramming The Butter/Captain Zero in the Meta Incognita Peninsula).
9. Bruises (Sung by The Lucifer Amp Choir).
10. Where Are You My Hero? (Sung by Kumi Okamoto & Zoé Wolf).
11. Furry Militaly.
12. Hello Spiral (Shame Spiraling Up Big Time)
13. That Very Moment : Angel Upheaval II (Sung by Zoé Wolf)/Glass Flu Coda (the Ice Skins Spiraled Around Each Other Like Lines on A Snail Shell).
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