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Ocela

by Daniel Kordik

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1.
Ocela 06:48
2.
221 08:12
3.
Hrana 05:13
4.
Ohyby 09:01
5.
Mach 05:56
6.
Zádery 07:54

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Ocela can be a dance album if you want it to be, but above that, it is an album about dancing. The second instalment in a planned trilogy, it regards dance as a form of pathmaking, a physical chronology of a journey. Its voyager is the eponymous Ocela // an invented feminine form of the word steel // who wields both strength and brittleness. While the first album (Spojky Čiary) focused on Ocela’s inception and youth, here she is mature // on a resolute trajectory between birth and passing away.

Ocela is not a concept album // unless you want it to be // but it is an album built around beats. While there is a loose precedent for rhythms in the two-piece project Jamka, the trilogy also marks Daniel Kordik’s solo return to melodical composition. On this record, Ocela dances on her orbits in patterns that are harmonious but always slightly elliptic. Each song on the album travels with its own varying velocity, before it abruptly finds itself at the subjective beginning. Then it goes through further revolutions, with determination bordering on a lack of choice.

Recorded live onto a 4-track before mixing, Ocela is unlike its predecessor in that it shuns any form of field recording, and was instead made using only hardware (Elektron Octatrack MK1, Elektron Digitone, Jomox Mbase01).

Daniel Kordik, also known as Iskra, is one half of Jamka, member of the Urbsounds Collective, co-founder of Earshots Recordings and Ocela is his second release on the melodramatic label Weltschmerzen.

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released February 7, 2022

music by Daniel Kordik.
mastered by Dominik Suchy.

cover design by Miša Chmeličková.
layout by Folding Cave.


apart // together // always.
weltschmerzen015.

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Daniel Kordik Bratislava, Slovakia

My music spans across three main domains: electronic music, free improvisations and field recordings. This page lists almost all my solo albums, regular and one of collaborations.

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