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The
Ooberman Story
(L-R: Steve Flett, Dan Pop, Sophia Churney, Andy Flett) From school beginnings in 1984 Ooberman developed over years of self-produced recordings in obscurity with a brief period in the UK mainstream 1998-2002. This included 4 Glastonbury appearances, a UK top 40 single (Blossoms Falling), a major label album produced by Stephen Street (Pete Doherty, Blur, Kaiser Chiefs, Morissey, Zutons) and Single of the Year (Shorley Wall) voted by The Times newspaper, James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers) and Radio One’s Mark Radcliffe. On their own Rotodisc label The Oob continued into two enchanting psychedelic folk prog pop masterpieces in the Running Girl Mini-Album (2001) and Hey Petrunko album (2003). Reviews were incredible, sales were poor and they dropped themselves from their own label.
After
three years apart with Andy’s
Ooberon
project and Dan’s
orchestral commissions, in 2006 they rediscovered their optimistic stride
and recorded a sparkling orch-pop gem Carried Away.
2007 brought solo releases from Dan and Andy and a rarities CD The Lost
Tapes. Press
The press gave
third Ooberman album
Carried Away a
great
response in August 2006. (Buy now from your local store or
our
international record shop. Or Amazon. Or download it from
digital sites like iTunes or Napster. Anywhere really - seek and ye
shall find.) CARRIED AWAY ALBUM (2006): “vast Spector-ish production… radiantly beautiful. 4 Stars.” (Uncut, August 2006)
"you're accosted by what's now an intricately-developed beauty" (Music OHM.com) "Ooberman carry the spangly pop baton with confidence and bring great orchestration to bear" (Gigwise.com) "gentle strings, floating keys, sweet melodies, the beguiling vocals of Sophia and layers of soaring harmonies" (Sounds Xp) "12 more songs to add to the pile marked 'Ooberman classics'... a satisfying polish only glimpsed at since their debut... the delicate voice of Sophia Churney has grown considerably stronger and more expressive." (Amazon) |
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LATEST
NEWS
THE MAGIC
THEATRE Dan and Sophia are working on a new album 'Visions and Fairytales' by The Magic Theatre. Sophia will be on main vocals and the music will be magical, orchestral and electronic with great songs, a time travel love story and lots of harmonies. Work is well
underway with the songs written & selected and much of the music now
recorded. OOB IN THE USA Oob song Running Girl is now being heard across America on the trailer for Courtney Cox's TV show "Dirt". Says
Ooberman's Dan Pop yesterday "I can't think of an Ooberman related dirt pun
to liven up this story", then he went back to spiking his greying hair and
singing in front of a huge mirror, pretending it was 1999 and he was nearly
a pop star again.
SYMPHONIKA ALBUM Symphonika is Dan's orchestral / choral project. Second album 'Gothic Angel Warriors' is 20 enormous tracks featuring massive percussion, choir and orchestra (performances by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and The Slovak Radio Orchestra). GET HALF
FREE! Download the first 10 tracks here, INTERVIEW Download an interview Dan did with Carlo Zambotti from Italian style magazine Slurp.
Ooberman's 16-track Lost Tapes album was released in September 07. Order online here. This is a collection of rare and unreleased recordings from 1991 right up to the immaculate new track 'You're too Beautiful'.
Order from our online shop here: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=Ooberman or look out in record shops and download sites
Oobermen Andy
and Steve Flett released their brilliant album
'Waiting For The Sonic Boom'
in Feb under the name OOBERON.
Order it from
our
record shop.
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