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HUMAN GREED / MICHAEL BEGG - Omega:ost

Format: do-CD Label & Cat.Number: Omnempathy OMCD04 / OMCD04A Release Year: 2013 Note: "A hoochie-coochie carnival for the end of time" - original score for the 'Teatr blackSKYwhite' production OMEGA, a kind of bewildering earplay in the tradition of the 'Theatre of Cruelty', bizarre, surrealistic, and emotional, an esoteric freak-show (with wonderful melancholic / musical parts), impossible to describe with words! This is the lim. extra disc edition with a full CD of "Michael Begg's Black Glass Ensemble" (OMCD04A) Price (incl. 19% VAT): €17.50 More Info "Omega. A hoochie-­‐coochie carnival for the end of time. Out from the sideshow shadows creep an astounding array of freaks, ageless hucksters, and mind-­‐twisting curiosities. Raised from apocryphal texts, by black mirrors and prisms. Masters of the macabre spectacle, technical wizards, and true innovators of theatrical sleight-­‐of-­‐hand, Moscow’s blackSKYwhite – Fringe First and Total Theatre winners – return with their boldest, most audacious production to date, realised in the scale that this company deserves. Loud, exhilarating and utterly compelling. The recording is the result of an extraordinary collaboration between 2 obsessively singular voices; Human Greed’s Michael and the Moscow based Dimitry Aryupin, blackSKYwhite’s mercurial artistic director. For 8 months, with very little in terms of common language the pair threw themselves deep into the process of cooking up an aural bedrock on which to situate the extraordinary beings that populate the stage. Old testament excess, dustbowl carny gothic, and the captured wheezing and grunting of instruments worn out centuries on the road all figure in the soundtrack – and in doing so extend the range of Begg’s more familiar palette of electronics”. The record also features texts in English, Russian and Romani written by Begg and Aryupin. “O ushalin zhala war o kam mangela -­‐ The shadow moves as the sun commands." [label info] www.omnempathy.com "It has, rather appropriately, been 13 years since Moscow-based company blackSKywhite first appeared on the Fringe to terrify and amaze audiences with Bertrand’s Toys. In the intervening years, they have toured the world and other companies have perhaps become better known on the Fringe. But Omega is a very welcome reminder of just how high that bar has been set. In a month when the city abounds with jugglers and acrobats, it is worth noting that Omega is not a circus show. Rather, it is a movement and dance piece that evokes a stylised circus, the freak shows of the past and a nightmarish post-Apocalyptic carnival. And yet the physical skill on offer here is no less impressive. Put simply, it is often impossible to believe that human beings can actually move like this. It is also rare to see a production as technically polished as this. Movement, music (specially composed by Michael Begg), sound and lighting all seamlessly combine to create something far more than a show: this is a true theatrical experience." [TV BOMB]