Momus -
"Oskar Tennis Champion"
[ Released on Analog Baroque Records - ANALOG 008 CD - February 2003 ]
MOMUS SAYS:
In early 2002, fleeing terrorism, recession and the Bush administration, Momus moved from New York to Tokyo. Oskar Tennis Champion was recorded in the Nakameguro district and marks a radical departure for a Momus recording: the entire album has been tweaked, mangled, glitched up and remixed by a young 'reproducer' based in Bay City, Michigan: 22 year-old John 'Fashion Flesh' Talaga. The result is a record to satisfy your inner Pierre Schaeffer as much as your inner Georges Brassens. A record that takes you from the South China Seas to Scotland and on to 'the house of the dead'. A record of articulacy and melody that seems, nevertheless, strangely attracted to madness and noise.
PHESPIRIT SAYS:
The first reproductively deformed Momus album - its knob daringly twiddled by John Fashion Flesh - is an electric mesh of digitally-distorted cabaret flourishes, post-post-futuristic vaudeville and a puppetry cast of fake stars. The sound is both fresh and refreshed; the author and performer could only be Momus. His finest moments are Pierrot Lunaire, Beowulf (I am Deformed) and the Electrosexual Sewing Machine. Momus continues to fascinate.
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