ow
nowhere
CD: heavenhotel
hh0402 (2004)
1. park [5:15]
2. vivid dream of holding hands [4:10]
3. eureka [5:36]
4. lost love [6:43]
5. while you were out [2:05]
6. pine lodge [3:50]
7. sick bay [2:42]
8. bad fortune cookie / highway to shangri-la [14:08]
9. bathroom floor [11:43]
10. nowhere [3:27]
analog recording done by geert van beveren & dimitri daggelinckx at ghosttown studio, 10-16 march 2004
mixed 20-23 march 2004
mastered at foon by paul van der jonckheyd
'nowhere' recorded on 4-track by dimitri in our rehearsal space on januari 7th 2003, bass played by stefan vanderstappen
ow are: chris wauters: drums, bells - jan stoop: bass, big muff, chinese flute - elko blijweert: keyboards, chinese balls & flute, melodica, loop station - thomas noppe: guitar, memory man, sony drum pad, mouth harp, thai 'khaen', vietnamese prayer bowl
guest 'vocals' on last part of 'bathroom floor' by tim van der poel
general assistance by ivan
sleeve printed by alinea drukkerij nv
distributed by lowlands
◆本CDについて◆
見開き紙ジャケット（E式）仕様。中ジャケにトラックリスト。紙製インナースリーブにクレジット。
Owはベルギーはアントウェルペン（アントワープ）のオルタナ系インスト・バンドで、歌は入っていないです（ラララ～＆うめき声は入っています）。いかにもインディーズな謎の蚊取線香ジャケ（※）に惹かれてジャケ買いしておいたのが出てきたのできいてみました。
本作は2004年リリースの1st。2007年に2nd『Moon Tan』が出ています。
「About OW」（myspace.com/owmusic より）
「Ow started existing late 2001 when Chris & Thomas, who kept playing together since the split of Zen Torpedo, met bass player stefan through mutual friend Elko, who also joined a few months later. in the fall of 2003 Stefan left and Jan Stoop joined the band. Ow tries to play naïve, dreamy instrumental music, sometimes inexplicably happy, often hard and sad . Ow has the pretence that, although without lyrics, their music is actually about something, namely, everyday things like loneliness, confusion, alienation, depression, being lost, snails, lost love, snowboarding, the decline of western civilisation, evil women (on tv), food and alcohol abuse, loss of memory」
※「神戸 長岡驅蟲劑製造株式會社」のポスターより。裏ジャケは袁秀堂・画「三美游湖図」（上海河南路交通路口徐勝記発行）より。
★★★★☆
eureka
bathroom floor
