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Marco! Polo! I mean Oppedisano! The fourth installment of this man’s recorded life has arrived in the form of another CD-R courtesy of the OKS label. Aptly titled Mechanical Uprising, it’s overflowing with MO’s usual MO: overdubbed and over-the-top music all made by himself, except for a few vocal samples. Spread across seven tracks, the centerpiece of the album, “Seven Pieces,” is derived from electric guitar, bass and a grand total of nothing else. It starts off with held eBay, I mean Ebow tones and dry tangled thorns, then proceeds into tick-tock rhythms with heavy rock riffing, reverb daydreams, layers of heavy metal shred master leads, dreamy melodies, stately drones and big, bopping bleep-bloops.

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On his third outing, New York City-based guitarist Marco Oppedisano teams up with David Lee Myers to produce 13 tracks of “eclectic music for electric guitar, feedback circuitry and computer distortions.” Like his first two albums, the Tesla tub is filled to the top with all manner of lush drones layered with radio static and hum, meditative picking, and flurry-filled feedback. On a few tracks, some synthetic beats show up to make your mom’s head bang underneath the traditionally shredding and wailing axes. One of the most accessible and mellow tracks, “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,” even brandishes some melodic acoustic guitar lines straight out of “Summer Breeze.” The disc closes out in fine fashion with plenty of Francois Bayle-like pinging and the utterance of a long list of random words.

Label: OKS Catalog Number: OKSRNA017 Format: CD Packaging: Jewel case Tracks: 13 Total Time: 59:09 Country: United States Released: 2008 More: All About Jazz, Last.FM, MySpace, OKS, United We Tab, Wikipedia

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On his second CD, New York City-based guitarist Marco Oppedisano offers up quite an odd, off-the-menu combo in the form of some sweet, shredding rock guitar that could fit right in on Pink Floyd’s The Wall smothered with deep space drones, farts and pings. This is all achieved with an expanded arsenal–including radio, midi, processed simple waveforms and spoken vocals–in addition to the “guitar and bass samples” approach of his debut album. More musique concrete darkness and random bleeping, chattering and hissing chaos keep this album from veering anywhere near classic rock territory, instead planting Marco’s feet firmly on The Ominous Corner.

Label: OKS Catalog Number: OKSRNA016 Format: CD Packaging: Jewel case Tracks: 8 Total Time: 58:51 Country: United States Released: 2008 More: All About Jazz, CD Baby, Last.FM, MySpace, OKS, United We Tab, Wikipedia

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Composed by New York City guitarist Marco Oppedisano between 1999-2005 and released on CD in 2007, these 12 tracks of rich guitar drones and feedback mine sonic minerals similar to those stored on Lee Ranaldo’s solo albums. Through extensive processing, sounds like whipping wind, ticking clocks and metallic percussion were derived from nothing but guitar and electric bass samples (and vocal samples on one track). Occasional squiggly electronic outbursts and noisy feedback stab through all the warm fuzzies. Simple, repetitive fingerpicking and, surprisingly, brief heavy metal riffs and sweet licks also find their way into the mix. Sometimes, the resultant sounds are reminiscent of old school musique concrete. Fans of that genre, as well as drones and noise, are sure to enjoy this dandy disc.

Label: OKS Catalog Number: OKSRNA007 Format: CD Packaging: Jewel case Tracks: 12 Total Time: 53:12 Country: United States Released: 2007 More: All About Jazz, CD Baby, Last.FM, MySpace, OKS, United We Tab, Wikipedia

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