"if you look / close into the sky / watching the clouds / how they're passing by / I felt so happy / watching them fly..."
The gothic persuasions, darkly entrancing and mysterious glimpses around corners of "I Felt So Happy", by German progressive alt rock / psych rock band Ogrom Circus, takes you on a trip over it's nearly 7 minute run time and this is the thing, afterwards you want to hear more. Like an opera of sorts, the vintage psychedelic keys and sort of Western pop rock noir guitars had me thinking of the kinds of sounds I might associate with 70's Italian Horror movies, the so called Giallo movie aesthetics. Within the mystery and darkly dramatic sound that Ogrom Circus crafts there is a sense of traveling gypsies and stately manors that hold dark or even bloody secrets. I love vocalist / guitarist Hannes Fröhlich's songwriting penchant for grand gestures and existential dread as the earth and skies turmoil as a metaphor for our own or maybe a reflective mirror itself.
Everyone in this band, in concert doesn a stunning job of manifesting Fröhlich's universe building like Florian Wenzel on keys / synth, Cornelius Hütter on bass, Wenzel Fröhlich on drums and Maxim Richter on vocals / guitar. The ride, the trippy trip is so cinematic, so absolutely vast in scope. If you don't believe me, I have a fun exercise for you. Below I have a the first nearly 6 minutes of Dario Argento's 1977 masterpiece 'Suspiria'. I want you to mute the audio on it and push play on Ogrom Circus's "I Felt so Happy" and "Suspiria" at about the same time. It is a wonderful pairing, if you ask me. After that you can check out the LIVE on tape recording session of this wonderful track.
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[Fourth Single from the upcoming Vinyl EP "the world barely makes a sound". Recorded in a filmed live tape machine session. Video available on YouTube. The song was composed and arranged by Hannes Fröhlich and was later adapted and arranged to the bands full line-up. Over a decade of making music together, the formation has bonded as an intuitive live session band. This live session experience was now ritualized in an analog way at Virtuose Vibes Studio, where the band recorded the upcoming EP live to an old Tascam multi-track tape machine in september 2024. The warm tape compression gives the song its very special energy.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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https://www.instagram.com/ogromcircus/
https://www.facebook.com/OgromCircus/
https://ogromcircus.de/
Heartbreaking vocals harmonies, soulful atmospheric folk and some psychedelic space trips … with a bluesy breeze of soul.“
[Fourth Single from the upcoming Vinyl EP "the world barely makes a sound". Recorded in a filmed live tape machine session. Video available on YouTube. The song was composed and arranged by Hannes Fröhlich and was later adapted and arranged to the bands full line-up. Over a decade of making music together, the formation has bonded as an intuitive live session band. This live session experience was now ritualized in an analog way at Virtuose Vibes Studio, where the band recorded the upcoming EP live to an old Tascam multi-track tape machine in september 2024. The warm tape compression gives the song its very special energy.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/ogromcircus/
https://www.facebook.com/OgromCircus/
https://ogromcircus.de/
Heartbreaking vocals harmonies, soulful atmospheric folk and some psychedelic space trips … with a bluesy breeze of soul.“
Ogrom Circus, alt rock, psychedelic rock, art rock, gothic, operatic, progressive, eloquent, grand visions, Germany, "I Felt so Happy", stunning track, upcoming Vinyl EP "the world barely makes a sound",
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