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Justin Ossher |
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Alternative, Blues, Composer, Electronic, Folk, Industrial, Pop, Rap, Reggae, Rock |
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Justins new album, Stereo Gold (produced by Brett Creswell - Sick Puppies), is his 4th and second solo album and is now in top local record stores (Redeye, JB HiFi, Electric Monkeys etc.) and on itunes, digital download stores (very soon through his own site and myspace), and at his gigs! Some tracks are streaming on online radio stations in the USA and Australia. Justin draws parallels between life, love and being. His music encompasses the orchestral, with band production bridging the gap between a sparse acoustic style and roots-rock expression. Justin, a multi-instrumentalist, has created darkly beautiful music which he feels is both accessible and unique and a sound very much his own. Strength Of Your Command and Repose Of Defeat will be appearing in a new indie film out of the US through his publisher in Colorado.
The J. Ossher Band have taken their sound to Melbourne this year. Sydney fans reckon its like The Killers meets One Day As A Lion meets Tricky. Breathing a new eclecticism into my music, my project this year breaks through a style of soul-filled, urban, post-folk mix-up with rock-electronica. Im bridging my previous projects in a new style fit for a discerning venue and the discerning punter. The new sound features instrumentation as diverse as acoustic and electric guitar, the inimitable band-member-in-a-box, the almighty MPC, Vocoder, Touch Synths and whichever weird instrument joins in on the night. The band hopes to get their message through to Melbourne audiences who are strong supporters of indie music.
Justin also performs his material as an acoustic set. He performed some pretty outrageous improv at his Thursday night Bucket Room residency in Bondi and two years later he’s now taken the concept to Melbourne where he launched The Melbourne Bucket Room at Grumpys Green in Firzroy in April.
When I first heard Janis Joplin sing I asked my dad, who is this guy? He said, this is Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother and the Holding Company. I think my mistake in identifying her gender was my first foray into the world of voice. I was eleven years old.
I wrote about a hundred songs in high school, only two were listenable, the rest were just adolescent catharsis. I read beat poets and Hunter S and listening to more and more music caused me to consider my music in a more modern context and I tried to develop my early rock style into something more relevant to our times.
I wrote as a poet and my natural instinct for improvising melodies suited my love of the blues where I could jam out whatever words came to me in a song like way. I now write to express myself and share my desire for uninhibited expression with the world. I try
to raise the sometimes mundane ideals of my everyday life into lyrical phrases that
transcend the words themselves.
I write about people around me, hypocrisy in the media, social forums and everyday life. I write about humanity, emotion, and more existential topics of oppression and the inner and outer world. Id say my most common theme is an interweaving of love, self oppression and sex, inspired from life itself. My day to day experiences, relationships I form, and destroy, and about the things that drive us all on as humans. In terms of social themes I attempt to express my thoughts on how people interact with their environment and the difficulties all of us face in our everyday lives.
Performance is very important for me and like Eddie Murphy I try to use the whole stage as my back drop. As musicians we are responsible for the message we put out there, so its important to me to encapsulate my feelings about the world and life in these performances.
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