new CD available on CD Baby - Marco Oppedisano
oppedi...@aol.com
I am proud to announce the release of my new CD, ELECTROACOUSTIC WORKS
FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR. The release is now available on CD Baby and will
be available on iTunes and other digital stores very soon:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/oppedisano
Also, copied in this e-mail is the official press release from the OKS
Recordings of North America label and a bio.
Thanks so much for all your support!
Best,
Marco Oppedisano
http://www.zebox.com/oppedisano/music
http://www.myspace.com/marcooppedisanomus
http://www.myspace.com/marcooppedisanoelectroacousticworks
http://www.myspace.com/marcooppedisanocollaborations
http://www.oksrecordingsofnorthamerica.com/marco.html
http://www.myspace.com/biostrio
http://www.marcooppedisano.com
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Press Release
Marco Oppedisano
Electroacoustic Compositions For Electric Guitar
CD-R
OKSRNA-007
Email: marco.op...@gmail.com
Url: www.oksrecordingsofnorthamerica.com
Myspace: www.myspace.com/marcooppedisanomus
MP3: www.oksrecordingsofnorthamerica.com/radio/tracks/frozentears.mp3
OKS Recordings of North America is pleased to announce the release of
Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar, our fifth major
release. This CD-R is now available through cdbaby.com as well as
Amazon.com, Los Angeles' Amoeba Records, New York's Other Music and
Kim's Underground. It will be available for digital download at
iTunes, Napster, Yahoo Music and many other digital download services.
Marco Oppedisano is a composer, a classically trained guitarist and
producer. Marco has worked with Oren Fader, Tom Buckner and Kevin R.
Gallagher, and he has performed the music of Glenn Branca.
Oppedisano's music has been described by Time Out New York as "...mind-
bending music for electronics and guitar...hear Oppedisano's intricate
roar." Tokafi said, "...this is full-on, in-your-face and almost
confrontational music....Marco Oppedisano's music goes straight to
your heart."
This collection chronicles almost a decade's worth of Marco's
electroacoustic music. For Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric
Guitar, Marco abandoned live performance and found a paradise that
mixes extended technique, digital processing, and pointillist
editing. In some places he achieves a beauty that rivals a Fennesz
style of ecstasy and in others a distorted abstraction that could be
compared to Keith Rowe, but Marco's inspired ability to shape shift
his guitar into so many beasts is a unique twist that is all his own.
Each of these pieces was primarily sourced from his electric guitar or
bass playing and finely tuned for months or years, much like the work
of a sculptor or masterpiece painter.
In his epic Time Lapse, Marco's sound palette covers a great deal of
territory starting with deep tones that resemble a didgeridoo far more
than any stringed instrument before turning into a garden of tape-
warped squiggles that recall Tod Dockstader's classic work. Karmicom
is a powerful piece displaying some of Marco's most fierce guitar work
that ends in a swirl of operatic vocals provided by the only other
musician to appear on this recording, Marco's wife, Kimberly. The End
is Near is a jump-cut distillation of the broad range that Marco is
capable of, easily hopping from gorgeous soundscapes to Zeppelin-style
riffing.
Recently, Marco has started an electroacoustic improvisational trio
with OKSRNA label-mates Bill Byrne (The Painful Leg Injuries) and John
Ibarra (El Plan De Aguavodka) called BIOS. They have recorded an
album,
Retiring to Palermo to Make Apple Whine, due in late 2007. Marco has
had his compositional works performed by the Fireworks Ensemble,
Glass Farm Ensemble, Morris Lang and The Brooklyn College Percussion
Ensemble, and The Zyryab Guitar Quartet of Portugal. In October 2006
and February 2007, Oppedisano headlined concerts at Dominic Frasca's
The Monkey NYC featuring his electroacoustic works for electric guitar
and works for live electric guitar and CD playback.
This CD-R release marks the latest major release from OKS Recordings
of North America, a label run by Bill Byrne and his longtime
collaborator, Jonah Goldstein. OKSRNA specializes in artist-created
CD-R releases that cater to the tech-savvy listener who is ready for
new arenas of creativity for musical expression.
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Bio
Marco Oppedisano is a composer, guitarist and producer with ample
recording and performance experience as a guitarist in music ranging
from rock/pop, jazz, hip hop, club/dance music, contemporary concert
music, free improvisation, film music and musical theater.
Oppedisano has recorded with the BIOS trio and performed with various
contemporary music ensembles and musicians in the New York City area.
He has had works performed by the Fireworks Ensemble, Glass Farm
Ensemble, Morris Lang and The Brooklyn College Percussion Ensemble,
The Zyryab Guitar Quartet of Portugal, and distinguished guitarists;
Oren Fader and Kevin R. Gallagher. He has recorded for Capstone
Records (Vox Novus 2003 60x60 project), performed in Glenn Branca's
pieces for 100 guitars and in the US premiere of Guitars D'Amour.
Oppedisano also is featured with Tom Buckner on an electroacoustic
composition entitled, Hoodlum Priest by Noah Creshevsky (released on
the Mutable Music label in 2003). In October 2006, Oppedisano
headlined concerts at Dominic Frasca's The Monkey NYC featuring his
electroacoustic works for electric guitar and works for live electric
guitar and CD playback.
Television appearances by Oppedisano include an improvisation concert
at Brooklyn College aired on CUNY TV in December 2005 and a special
called Deadly Women that aired on the Discovery Channel in February
2005, featuring an opera scene by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz. He has done
radio interviews for Kalvos and Damian (www.kalvos.org), and had works
programmed on WMUA MassLive Martian Gardens, RTQE WORT-FM 89.9 Madison
WI, CKCU 93.1 FM Ottawa Canada "Infinite Ceiling", KUNM 89.9FM College
of Santa Fe, art@radio in Maryland, Contemporary Classical Internet
Radio (live 365), and WOBC 91.5FM of Oberlin, OH. In September 2005
and December 2006, Oppedisano performed live with Josh Weinstein on
WOR710s Joey Reynolds Show in New York City. In December 2006, he
performed with Josh Weinstein on Vin Scelsa's long running radio
program, "Idiot's Delight." In October 2006, Oppedisano was featured
in an online interview with Urban Guitar 'Zine and in April 2007, did
a 15 Questions Interview with Tokafi.
Oppedisano work as a producer and assistant producer include projects,
FIRST FLIGHT, a solo classical guitar disc by the prolific New York
City based guitarist, Oren Fader. He has worked as assistant producer
on an album called DANCE MIX by the Fireworks Ensemble. His full
length CD, ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITIONS FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR was
released in June 2007 on the OKS Recordings of North America label.
His works have been performed and heard in various areas around the
world and are all registered with ASCAP.
Oppedisano is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He holds a B.A in Music
Composition from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and an M.A
in Music Composition from the Queens College Aaron Copland School of
Music.