SACRED BONES
Hi! I'm thrilled to share with you all that I've joined the Sacred Bones family. I am excited to conspire with such a fantastic crew at a truly legendary label. I’d like to share my Infinite gratitude to the Sacred Bones team for their support during this new chapter.
Limited copies of the latest Prism Tongue pressing of Formless on turquoise LPs are now available on Sacred Bones.
Thank you all for your continued support, none of this would be possible without you. Stay tuned for upcoming tour dates & I look forward to sharing new work with you!
BURY ME
Bury Me, my new 7" EP, is out on April 4th in time for my European tour and the first song, Lucile, is available now wherever you stream music. You can pre-order the 7" via bandcamp with both European & North American shipping available.
I’ve been working on a new record and it became obvious at some point that some of the music was taking a different direction than the album, so we took these songs and made a new home for them on vinyl.
Bury Me is an ode to the spirit world. Fantasy is my way to transform pain into something beautiful and find understanding. This project features friends & collaborators cellist Lori Goldston (Nirvana, Earth) Swedish violinist Ester Thunander, harpist Elisa Thorn, co-producers Tom Deis & David Parry (Loving) and long time bandmates Finn Smith & Al Murray, big thanks to them for being a part of this new work. The cover art is by the fantastic Alexa Black and the visualizer is by Paloma Ruiz
I'm so grateful to have worked with so many incredible musicians and artists on this record. This project has been a ridiculous labour of love. Thank you to everyone involved and to everyone who has been listening to and supporting this project.
Formless was produced by David Parry & Ora Cogan
All songs written & arranged by Ora Cogan with the exception of Is Anything Wrong by Lhasa De Sela and Katie Cruel, a traditional song arranged by Ora Cogan.
High Noon & Holy Hells were written by Ora Cogan and arranged by Finn Smith, Ora Cogan and David Proctor.
Engineered by David Parry at Risque Disque September 2022
Mastered by Tom Deis at Pineapple Room Studio
All songs mixed by Tom Deis except for Cowgirl, Dyed, Is Anything Wrong mixed by David Parry
Finn Smith - drums, percussion
David Parry - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass
David Proctor - bass
Liam Gibson - keyboards, piano
Luz Elena Mendoza of Y La Bamba - vocals
Cormac Mac Diarmada - violin, viola
Tom Deis - all different kinds guitars, bass, vocals
Russell Kotcher - Violin
JP Carter - Trumpet
Chelka - alto recorder
Cover Photo: Stasia Garraway
Album Design: Malcolm Jack & Ora Cogan
New Visualizer
Katie Cruel
A new version of Katie Cruel is out now with a new visualizer
This is the third single from my upcoming album, Formless.
Katie Cruel is in The New York Times on their playlist
I’m so excited to share this new take on such a legendary song! Shout out to Fire Draw Near for adding it to an episode last month and to Peter Broderick who did a whole episode dedicated to this song with me for his series One Song.
You can listen to / buy Katie Cruel & pre order Formless HERE
Screen shot from the visualizer for Katie Cruel : Directed by Patrick Macht & Micah Henry Creative Director: Bray Jorstad
Nu Version of Dyed as second single for upcoming record!
This is a new version & the second single from my new record, Formless!
Pre-order Formless here https://oracogan.bandcamp.com/album/f... Directed by Bray Jorstad Latro Films Starring Sarah Flack Isobel Ford - Costuming Sydney Barudin - Makeup Ora Cogan - vocals, electric guitar Justin Devries - drums David Proctor - bass David Parry - electric guitar, acoustic guitar Liam Gibson - keyboards Written & arranged by Ora Cogan Engineered & mixed by David Perry at Risque Disc Mastered by Tom Deis at Pineapple Room Studio Produced by Ora Cogan & David Parry
Nu Katie Cruel version from Formless on Fire Draw Near
A new version of Katie Cruel from the upcoming album Formless is on Today’s episode of Ian Lynch’s amazing podcast, Fire Draw Near
▪▪▫Ξ˕˒˒˔˕˔ ʵʴʱʶ-⌐°˦̡̢̡̢̡̢̡̢Ƣɤ±±ɤҧԇʭ°‰¬ʵʴʱʶ˕˔˕˔ _¦¦¦₪ᶗ▪▫▫ _Lavoro Macchinine_
▪▪▫Ξ˕˒˒˔˕˔ ʵʴʱʶ-⌐°˦̡̢̡̢̡̢̡̢Ƣɤ±±ɤҧԇʭ°‰¬ʵʴʱʶ˕˔˕˔ _¦¦¦₪ᶗ▪▫▫ _Lavoro Macchinine_
A collaboration between Alexis Hildreth & Ora Cogan has been selected to screen at the @cccb_barcelona
during the _27th International Symposium on Electronic Art_ (June 10th - 16th 2022) under the _humans and non-humans_ subtheme.
https://isea2022.isea-international.org/
From Alexis:
..._Lavoro Macchinine_ is a collaborative moving image (@gozertoast) and sound (@oracogan ) work that deconstructs the opening credits and re-imagines the musical overture in the title sequence from the Italian period drama _Il Gatopardo (1963)_...
..._Lavoro Macchinine_ occults the film's original static text with a mercurial, kinetic typography, built from the very glyphs it is at pains to obfuscate...
...letterforms bifurcate in an imitation of manor gates...
...conveyor belts composed of graphemes disseminate across the laneway...
...ligatures roll out of ideograms to scrutinize Roman busts...
...alien marginalia breach the balustrade...
...extraterrestrial dingbats lodge themselves into the ruins of a world that no longer exists...
...ogonek laden emissaries probe the cinemascape in order to become it; to become us...
>>originally curated by Aimee Van Drimmelen for VIDEO MIXTAPES III
Bells in the Ruins is out now!
Listen / Buy at oracogan.bandcamp.com
Cover art by Natasha Lavdovsky
Prism Tongue 2020
All songs written by Ora Cogan except for
Skull: Lyrics by Serena Shipp & Ora Cogan, Music by Reggie Bast & Ora Cogan
All songs produced by David Parry & Ora Cogan
All songs recorded at Dobro Genius by David Parry except for
vocals on Tell, Secret, Fixe & Skull recorded by Logan Gabert at Craig’s Place
Cover art by Natasha Lavdovsky
Graphic design by Ora Cogan
Album layout by Logan Gabert
New single / video “Skull” out now
On the Video for Sleeping:
Sourced from Natasha Lavdovsky's experimental performance series titled, “Primordial Safety Test”, the footage in Ora Cogan’s newest music video (shot in 2019 on the shores of Haida Gwaii) contrasts our struggle for safety with the peacefulness of surrender. Lavdovsky utilizes the trope of the post-apocalyptic figure alone in the landscape to highlight the precariousness of human life on earth in the face of environmental destruction, climate change, and sea level rise. On a carefully chosen day (according to the moon phase and tidal flux), with the help of one assistant working the camera, Lavdovsky stood in the ocean for 90 minutes, allowing the tide to rise over her body. After this, she spent the rest of the day alone, filming herself floating and struggling to climb onto a rock. Beyond themes of apocalypse and survival, this video is about the strong human desire to be reunited with nature, and the peace one can find when we stop fighting for control, and just be in the moment. Floating on the edge of the ocean’s vast silence is both alien and familiar. Being held in the ocean’s soft embrace is like returning to our primordial home, and reminds us that we are always somewhere between birth, and death.
The video was shot with respect and reverence, in the K̲andaliig̲wii, on unceded Haida territory. Editing was gratefully completed on unceded Tsawout territory, by the Salish Sea.
BELLS IN THE RUINS
Track list
Sleeping
Skull
Tell
Kills
The Devil
Fixe
Secret
Alta
Crime
All songs written by Ora Cogan except for
Skull: Lyrics by Serena Shipp & Ora Cogan, Music by Reggie Bast & Ora Cogan
All songs produced by David Parry & Ora Cogan
All songs recorded at Dobro Genius by David Parry except for
vocals on Tell, Secret, Fixe & Skull recorded by Logan Gabert at Craig’s Place
Sleeping credits
Vocals & Electric guitar - Ora Cogan
Drums - Keenan Mittag-Degala
Bass guitar & Slide Guitar - David Parry
Synths - Reggie Bast
Album art by Natasha Lavdovsky
Prism Tongue Records
I started a new record label called Prism Tongue Records!
More exciting news coming May 1st :::
https://www.instagram.com/prism_tongue/
