Olor Acre – Valves [Hedonic Reversal]

Olor Acre is the Barcelona project of Erik Paterna as Stmkh and Xavier Longàs as Refectori who released three albums on the Bestiarie and Hedonic Reversal labels. He has performed in different venues and festivals in Barcelona such as MIRA Festival, in the two editions of Bicefal Festival, as well as bringing techno sounds to the Kreuzberg Club with Diffuse Reality. Also with the HEX collective, he has participated in his second episode at The Loft in Razzmatazz. This project has been carried out with an idea that goes through a process of creation that is defined from the decomposition of sounds already present together with a constant decompassed acceleration that results in structures and forms with different readings.

Omica is the result of a sound conversation between two participants with the necessity to capture a future energy that goes beyond the present. A journey full of changes that oscillate between the revolutions of biomechanical machines and a constant light that bends time; as well as a fluid that pumps through cables creating structures and rhythms within a fickle space.

Percussions that add up like overtaking on highways and that in turn are accompanied by melodic lines that channel and guide the journey. An abrasive sensation in an unknown place. A metal that is rusting by the very flesh that covers it. The agreement between the organic and present here and the unknown and yet to come, an agreement between two.

Work the machinery. Working on the concern and uncertainty of our own times, the lack and longing for the tangible. The unstoppable advance that questions the physical and the way we relate to what surrounds us and the question of how we will do it in the future with the forms already created and those yet to come. A set of constantly developing surfaces in front of an uncluttered but at the same time prepared landscape waiting to be filled with what is le of us. A wide and flat view where the strength of the mechanical rules.

Release date: June 9th, 2023.