Paloma Oguny
The Seventh Oak

The Seventh Oak is a plateau situated in the south part of the Russian Far East. Between 1302 and 1250 AD, the site of a massive meteor strike, it was abandoned – its inhabitants relocated to a smaller plateau. The music here was recorded during a five month visit to the area in 2015. The sound here is an alpineic drone, a tangle of echoes, vibrato and the crackle of wind. The voice of Oguny is deep and resonant, tender and falsetto, her voice the only significant component. The voice is reedy and feminine, her breathy, slightly choked sounds recalling the Japanese voice of Nagao Miyako.

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