Wake Up Awesome

by Okkyung Lee, Lasse Marhaug, C. Spencer Yeh

Overview

Wake Up Awesome is the second volume of SSTUDIOS, a series of recordings that situates different experimental, avant-garde, and noise artists in new combinations of collaboration and spontaneous creativity. The album includes the trio of long-running Norwegian noise artist and Jazzkamer member Lasse Marhaug, experimental cellist Okkyung Lee, and New York-based sound collector C. Spencer Yeh, joining forces to create 15 tracks of collective improvisation and composed experimental sounds. The results of a fruitful 2012 studio session between the players were later meticulously edited and reassembled into Wake Up Awesome, resulting in a concise patchwork of Lee's organic but twisted cello squeals and webs of grizzly electronics, piecemeal percussion, and garbled vocalizations from Yeh and Marhaug. No piece outlives its welcome, with many tracks floating by at well under three minutes, and the album culminates in an abruptly ended stew of electronic drones, cut-up vocal samples, and churning hand drums on menacing closing track "Tonight We Sleep Like Empty Hard Drives." ~ Fred Thomas

Product Details

Release Date:	12/03/2013
Label:	SOFTWARE RECORDING
UPC:	0184923202113

Tracks

1. Wake Up Awesome
2. Hairslide
3. The Mermen of Poetry
4. Ophelia Gimme Shelter
5. The Mermaids of Extended Technique
6. Magic Seagull Lamp
7. Mission: Lazy
8. Mission: Nothing
9. Throw Down the Fishcake
10. Neutrons Whatever
11. Serious Cat's Milk
12. Anise Tongue and Durian Wet Dream
13. Mission: Possible
14. RSVP Skunk
15. Tonight We Sleep Like Empty Hard Drives

Album Credits

Performance Credits

C. Spencer Yeh   Primary Artist,Piano,Violin,Vocals,Percussion,Electronics
Okkyung Lee   Primary Artist,Cello
Lasse Marhaug   Primary Artist,Vocals,Percussion,Turntables,Electronics,Piano

Technical Credits

Lasse Marhaug   Composer
James Plotkin   Mastering
Al Carlson   Mixing,Engineer
C. Spencer Yeh   Mixing,Editing,Composer,Producer
Rob Carmichael   Design
Daniel Lopatin   Executive Producer
Okkyung Lee   Composer