O Y Z E M I N

Biography

Oyzemin: Name of a puppet in an early childhood phantasy language, remembered by mother. Serves as a pseudonym and signature of creative work of visual and accoustic nature.
Wink of Happiness: With the idea of creating a solo EP, Oyzemin begins sketching song ideas in 2006. First demos are created at home, using a laptop, and in the practice rooms. To these tracks of acoustic guitar, voice, piano and drumloops are added bass, percussion, string and keyboard instruments. Recorded noise from around Basle, Switzerland, and travels in Turkey and Morocco are woven in. But the song´s structure and atmosphere is always in the foreground. The sound should be visual and cinematic. Most of the instruments and vocals are recorded live. The lyrics encompass themes like identity, rage, grief and utopia. The album title relates to the randomness and fleetingness of feelings.

Musical inspiration comes from, amongst others, the Staple Singers, Sly Stone, Beck, Primal Scream, Toms Waits, Nino Rota, Neu, Blur, Baba Zula, Abdul Halim Hafez, Ravi Shankar, Alireza Mashayeki and the Rolling Stones.

Design & Artwork: A combination of subjects from Oyzemin´s photo collection. They stem from places and situations which he met randomly, documented photographically, then worked on.

2012 Andre Abshagen (PET) begins mixing the material in the Soundtrax Studio in Berlin. A little later Dodo Nkishi (Mouse on Mars) plays the drum tracks. The idea is born, to release 2 of the total 12 tracks in a vinyl pressing of 100 copies.