OMFO
OMFO w Central Asian lute
Captain, say what?
Label, Yes, he likes vinyl
We Are the Shepherds cover
Live
Astronaut

Songs

Centralasian Dub (Omnipresence CD)
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Line up

  • Bakhtiar Eybaliev (Azerbeidjan) (percussions, vocals)
  • Faiz Guseinov (Azerbeidjan) (violin)
  • Fay Lovsky (Netherlands) (bass/vibraphone)
  • Jamil al Asadi (Iraq) (kanoun)
  • Maxim Goldfinger (Russia ) (loops, samples)
  • OMFO (Ukraine/Netherlands) (ney, khomus, vocals, electronics, bass)
  • Ryba (Ukraine) (bouzouki, rubab)

Links

A new dimension in Village Disco or Space Folklore

O.M.F.O. Our Man from Odessa is the master of crossover par excellence. The self-styled bandit in time and space, transforming ancient melodies into music for cosmonauts and spaceships, inventor of the sonic horoscope and tireless researcher into the question of the role of traditional cultures in the age of technologies. With his bristling brain and cross-cultural crew of multifaceted musicians he boldly goes where none have thought to go before, travelling from the West to the East, from Amsterdam via Berlin to the hinterlands of the EU, the Carpathians, the Black Sea and into the front garden of Asia. In his music folk meets Kraftwerk, futurism meets folklore imaginaire or maybe call it "village disco" or "space folklore". Whatever you call it, you're unlikely to hear anything quite like this anywhere else. His first album on the Essay Recordings label, Trans Balkan Express, put him in the international spotlight and none other than Borat has chosen two tracks from the album "Money Boney" and "Magic Mamaliga" for the soundtrack of his film. Two more albums followed "We Are the Shepherds" co-produced by the legendary Atom(tm) (a.k.a. Senor Coconut) and his most complete album "Omnipresence".

OMFO presents the concept for his shows

This is the cutting edge of pastoral music future sound of villages, including folk tunes of aliens and the favourite songs of the space mafia. From the first sight an unimaginable fusion is going to be played life by five brave representatives of the human race. By definition, space music cannot be limited just by the pulsating clicks and the bubbling electronic sounds. This music is supposed to make us realize that our culture is a space culture, that we, earthlings are the children of Cosmos. We are the crew of a spaceship that left our mother planet to search for the new worlds. And this is not just a mind trip; this is a body journey - a journey from here to eternity. But in this journey we took bits and pieces of the sounds, songs and smells that we grew up with, projecting them on the screen of the new reality. Man have always tried to innovate their sound tools, turning them into more and more "sophisticated" musical instruments with mesmerizing sound qualities. This is how simple drum, flute, mouth harp turned into theremin, synthesizer and sampling sequencer. We do regard all this variety of them as a part of the one musicale culture of the space race, witch exists for million of years on our planet. We are not the urban snobs rejecting music of the village. We are the shepherds fascinated by the first encounter with electrical light, electronic sound and space rocket. The crew members from Ukraine, Netherlands, Syria, Romania and Azerbaijan