Owl Splinters, by Deaf Center

Owl Splinters

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1.	Divided 04:22	buy track
2.	Time Spent 02:09	buy track
3.	New Beginning (Tidal Darkness) 06:18	buy track
4.	The Day I Would Never Have 10:42	buy track
5.	Animal Sacrifice 04:33	buy track
6.	Fiction Dawn 02:32	buy track
7.	Close Forever Watching 07:54	buy track
8.	Hunted Twice 04:46	buy track

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It’s hard to believe that six years have gone by since Deaf Center’s ‘Pale Ravine’ hit the shelves. In the time that’s passed, the distinct melodies of Norwegians Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland have become almost synonymous with a specific shard of mysterious imagery so it feels high time that the duo should return to add a new next chapter to their shadowy story.

In contrast to Skodvin and Totland’s previous work, ‘Owl Splinters’ was recorded in a studio setting (Nils Frahm’s Durton studio, to be exact), and the lo-fidelity, haphazard techniques of their early recordings are now all but gone. With the benefit of some high-end engineering and analogue equipment, Skodvin and Totland’s murky compositions have been transformed from sketches into glorious widescreen spectacles. The blackened, scraping tone of Skodvin’s strings ring out on the album’s opener ‘Divided’ before seismic bass drones push up from beneath with a cacophonous, earthy clarity. This is the same Deaf Center we fell in love with all those years ago, but bigger and more powerful than ever before.
Between these epic compositions, the two musicians take time to give their own solo instruments the time to breathe – Totland with the piano and Skodvin on the cello. These small vignettes are crucial to the overall narrative of ‘Owl Splinters’, allowing a crack of sunlight through the oppressively bleak atmosphere. Everything slots into place on the album’s centrepiece ‘The Day I Would Never Have’ – piano and cello tumble into each other forming a dense, affecting cloud of sound. Echoes of half-remembered horror movies, love songs and the dark arts come together in a Norwegian cauldron to reveal something that at its heart is deeply moving and beautiful.

Deaf Center are back, and ‘Owl Splinters’ might just be their most defining statement to date.

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released February 14, 2011

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Deaf Center is the duo of Erik K Skodvin and Otto A Totland operating out of Norway / Berlin since 2003

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