O+S

Add Date: March 17

Artist: O+S

Album: O+S

Label: Saddle Creek

Genre: Pop

Comments: O+S is the musical collaboration between Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Art in Manila) and Scalpist (aka Cedric LeMoyne of Remy Zero). Based out of Omaha, Fink got an aural art residency from Bermis Center of Contemporary Arts which took her on numerous sound collecting excursions around Omaha, to an old church in Alabama, and ultimately Haiti. According to Fink her idea was to transform these moments of sound-time into loops and eventually into pop songs.

The result of this endeavor and collaborative effort is a beautiful collection of melodious songs with "the constant thump of drum loops, shifting from acoustic guitar and angelic coos to plodding piano, tinkling bells and a mélange of unidentifiable voices." Fink has a lovely voice, and this atmospheric music should definitely be checked out by fans of Portishead or Cat Power.