Elliott Sharp and Rainer Jancis fuse dense guitar textures, electronics, and driving rhythms into a raw and psychedelic blend of polymetric grooves and alchemical sound transformations with experimental intensity, joined by drummer Rob Heth and accordionist Tuulikki Bartosik to create stormy and highly expressive sonic landscapes.
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Elliott Sharp-electric guitar, baritone guitar, 12 string guitar, drum programming
Rainer Jancis-electric guitar, fretless 7 string, drums, electronica, programming
Rob Heth-drums
Tuulikki Bartosik-accordion
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UPC: 6417138715050
Label: zOaR Records
Catalog ID: ZCD 193
Squidco Product Code: 36993
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at U-Duur, by Rainer Jancis.
Recorded at Studio zOaR, in NYC, by Elliot Sharp.
"Uhhuu is Estonian for "owl" and in that country's culture, the owl possesses many qualities as expressed so beautifully in the famous line from Twin Peaks: "Owls are not what they seem." On its surface this experimental guitar work of Elliott Sharp and Rainer Jancis displays compositional clarity and grooving polymetric structures but underneath the psychedelic maelstrom of guitars lies alchemical transformational magic in the unique sounds and textures and the extreme expressive playing."-zOar
"Rainer Jancis is an Estonian, Tallinn-based guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, and current vocalist and guitarist of the Estonian alternative rock band Metro Luminal. Uhhuu, the title of Jancis' electric guitar duo album with American avant-guitarist Elliott Sharp, means owl in Estonian. In Estonian culture, the owl possesses many qualities as expressed so beautifully in the famous line from David Lynch's Twin Peaks: "Owls are not what they seem" (as told by the Giant to Special Agent Dale Cooper). Sharp's son, Kai Sharp, contributed the suggestive artwork for this album.
The album was recorded remotely. Jancis played an electric guitar, fretless 7-string guitar, drums, electronica, and programming at his Estonian U-Duur studio, and Sharp played electric guitar, baritone guitar, 12-string guitar, and drum programming at his zOaR studio in New York. American drummer Ron Hetah and Estonian-Swedish accordionist Tuuliki Bartosik play on the first piece. Jancis mixed and arranged the four pieces. Sharp and Jancis celebrated the album's release with a concert in Võru, Estonia.
Jancis and Sharp's music is uncompromising, raw, intense, and stormy, exhausting the experimental sides of both musicians. The opening, longest piece, "Bug Reports", establishes their immediate affinity of these fearless musicians, focusing on a dense, psychedelic texture with Heath's polyrhythmic grooves and Bartosik's Eastern European folky undercurrents. The title piece alternates between hyper-bluesy electric guitar onslaughts and feedback-laden, noisy attacks. "Inf0war" encapsulates Sharp and Jancis' rage regarding the complicity of social media outlets with wars across the globe into an explosive texture -literally - packed with tons of thorny guitar lines. The last piece, "Crash Mob", cements the alchemical transformational magic of the extreme and merciless yet highly expressive sounds and textures of Jancis and Sharp."-Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts
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• Show Bio for Elliott Sharp "Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Kronos String Quartet; Ensemble Resonanz; cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng; jazz greats Jack deJohnette, Oliver Lake, and Sonny Sharrock; multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jajouka. Sharp is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2014 Fellow at Parson's Center for Transformative Media. He received the 2015 Berlin Prize in Musical Composition from the American Academy in Berlin. He has composed scores for feature films and documentaries; created sound-design for interstitials on The Sundance Channel, MTV and Bravo networks; and has presented numerous sound installations in art galleries and museums. He is the subject of a new documentary "Doing The Don't" by filmmaker Bert Shapiro."-Elliott Sharp ^ Hide Bio for Elliott Sharp • Show Bio for Rainer Jancis Rainer Jancis is an Estonian, Tallinn-based guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, and current vocalist and guitarist of the Estonian alternative rock band Metro Luminal. ^ Hide Bio for Rainer Jancis • Show Bio for Rob Heth Rob Heth is an improvising drummer and experimental musician who appears on adventurous, genre-crossing projects, known particularly within the New York avant-improvised music scene. He is credited on Elliott Sharp & Rainer Jancis' Uhhuu (with Tuuliki Bartosik on accordion), where he performs on drums in a setting that blends electric guitars, electronics, and improvised sound worlds, highlighting his facility in open, fluctuant rhythmic contexts. Heth's work tends toward collaborative explorations of texture and groove rather than mainstream styles: performances and recordings featuring him show a strong connection to avant-guitarists and experimental composers, helping anchor music that moves fluidly between jazz, noise, and structured improvisation. ^ Hide Bio for Rob Heth • Show Bio for Tuulikki Bartosik "Tuulikki Bartosik, hailing from Sweden and Estonia, is a versatile multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer. Her music has been compared to neoclassical icons like Philip Glass and minimalist artists such as Ólafur Arnalds. She is particularly renowned for her innovative approach to the accordion. Bartosik's latest album, PLAYSCAPES, created in collaboration with Sander Mölder, has been praised by critics and audiences alike for its groundbreaking compositions, soundscapes, and instrumentation. Playscapes was shortlisted by Bandcamp and in Songlines Music Awards. Recognized by Swedish music magazine Lira as the folktronica album of the year and Beehype Magazine as one of the best albums in 2023, it also earned a nomination in Swedens Manifestgalan's experimental music category." ^ Hide Bio for Tuulikki Bartosik
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Track Listing:
1. Bug Reports 14:43
2. Uhhuu 08:15
3. InfOwar 07:05
4. Crash Mob 08:19
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