{"product_id":"ossifa-bb-cassette","title":"Ossifa - bb (Cassette)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOssifa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebb\u003cbr\u003eAltered States Tapes\u003cbr\u003eAustralia, 2026\u003cbr\u003eCassette\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeautiful new one from Cooper Bowman on Altered States Tapes—really good!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4034098655\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/alteredstatestapes.bandcamp.com\/album\/bb\"\u003ebb by Ossifa\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFROM THE LABEL:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is my (Cooper Bowman) second solo release as Ossifa, following the Guild Standards cd-r released on Discreet sub-label, Förfall in 2025.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis cd-r followed a long period of solo inactivity and here the project continues an onward march to the interior, free from the constraints of possessing any fixed definition of what the project should \"be\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere Guild Standards was more concerned with prickly abstraction, conjured without any clear intention of end result, bb is intended as a salve. The process is still one of organic way-finding, where each sound is like a footstep, determined by the one preceding it and dictating the following, rather than following any pre-ordained map.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe difference here being that this release was conceived as an ode to my mum, Brigitte Bowman, who passed away in December 2025. I started assembling some of these tracks in preparation for a live set supporting Eddy Current Suppression Ring in March 2026, grief still heavy in my subconscious and informing much of what I made. Perhaps this kind of sentimental ambient music is also intended as a tonic for my own feelings, a need to create the calm that I want for myself and for my mum, beyond\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e suffering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eThe sound of birdsong and their company was important to my mum throughout her life and their company now serves as an ever-present reminder for me. A vessel through which I continue to acknowledge her presence daily, hence they figure largely in these recordings. Admittedly, my mum always preferred the music of sad country types like Townes Van Zandt and Gene Clark, but whenever I played her Troth pieces featuring bird song, they resonated and calmed her. So, it is not a stretch to make these pieces as something that she could have had on in the background while she looked out the window at the magpies she had befriended. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003ebb's flip-side, the 20 minute 'Three Ferns', was commissioned to accompany the installation of Chris Nichols' light-based artwork 'Daloy' in Southern Tasmania. While it was primarily conceived to serve this function, the sounds and intention naturally fit alongside what I had already been assembling as the DNA of bb. Again, I feel like my subconscious was at work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eThe brief for this piece was to include birdsong from Tasmania, to imbue the piece with a strong domestic identity, so also aligned in this sense. It foregrounds various recordings of avian life in Knocklofty Reserve, the foothills of Kunanyi, Franklin Forest and Sykes Sanctuary in northern Tasmania. All beautiful spots that I suggest you visit, if you have the time and inclination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eI've already started developing some ideas for new Ossifa recordings that will likely bear little resemblance to these, but it was important to release these as a document of a feeling. Grief is an extremely strange process and, obviously, an individual one. I think that making something new, whatever it may be, is one of the best responses we can have to loss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seasonal Work","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67904768245894,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/3874\/2150\/files\/Ossifa_-_bb.jpg?v=1793991415","url":"https:\/\/seasonalworkrecords.com\/products\/ossifa-bb-cassette","provider":"Seasonal Work","version":"1.0","type":"link"}