New Visualizer

Katie Cruel  

A new version of Katie Cruel is out now with a new visualizer

This is the third single from my upcoming album, Formless.

Katie Cruel is in The New York Times on their playlist

I’m so excited to share this new take on such a legendary song! Shout out to Fire Draw Near for adding it to an episode last month and to Peter Broderick who did a whole episode dedicated to this song with me for his series One Song.

You can listen to / buy Katie Cruel & pre order Formless HERE

Screen shot from the visualizer for Katie Cruel : Directed by Patrick Macht & Micah Henry Creative Director: Bray Jorstad

Nu Version of Dyed as second single for upcoming record!

This is a new version & the second single from my new record, Formless!

Pre-order Formless here https://oracogan.bandcamp.com/album/f... Directed by Bray Jorstad Latro Films Starring Sarah Flack Isobel Ford - Costuming Sydney Barudin - Makeup Ora Cogan - vocals, electric guitar Justin Devries - drums David Proctor - bass David Parry - electric guitar, acoustic guitar Liam Gibson - keyboards Written & arranged by Ora Cogan Engineered & mixed by David Perry at Risque Disc Mastered by Tom Deis at Pineapple Room Studio Produced by Ora Cogan & David Parry

My new full length record Formless will be out August 25th, 2023 on Prism Tongue Records.

The first single “Cowgirl” is out now with a video by Latro Films

Watch the new video here

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▪▪▫Ξ˕˒˒˔˕˔ ʵʴʱʶ­-⌐°˦̡̢̡̢̡̢̡̢Ƣɤ±۝±ɤҧԇʭ°‰¬ʵʴʱʶ˕˔˕˔ ­_¦¦¦₪ᶗ▪▫▫ _Lavoro Macchinine_

A collaboration between Alexis Hildreth & Ora Cogan has been selected to screen at the @cccb_barcelona

during the _27th International Symposium on Electronic Art_ (June 10th - 16th 2022) under the _humans and non-humans_ subtheme.

https://isea2022.isea-international.org/

From Alexis:

..._Lavoro Macchinine_ is a collaborative moving image (@gozertoast) and sound (@oracogan ) work that deconstructs the opening credits and re-imagines the musical overture in the title sequence from the Italian period drama _Il Gatopardo (1963)_...

..._Lavoro Macchinine_ occults the film's original static text with a mercurial, kinetic typography, built from the very glyphs it is at pains to obfuscate...

...letterforms bifurcate in an imitation of manor gates...

...conveyor belts composed of graphemes disseminate across the laneway...

...ligatures roll out of ideograms to scrutinize Roman busts...

...alien marginalia breach the balustrade...

...extraterrestrial dingbats lodge themselves into the ruins of a world that no longer exists...

...ogonek laden emissaries probe the cinemascape in order to become it; to become us...

>>originally curated by Aimee Van Drimmelen for VIDEO MIXTAPES III

Get a limited edition, one of a kind version of Bells in the Ruins by Ora Cogan. This comes with an insert of the original artwork. Available on bandcamp

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Bells in the Ruins is out now!

Listen / Buy at oracogan.bandcamp.com

Cover art by Natasha Lavdovsky

Cover art by Natasha Lavdovsky

Prism Tongue 2020

All songs written by Ora Cogan except for
Skull: Lyrics by Serena Shipp & Ora Cogan, Music by Reggie Bast & Ora Cogan
All songs produced by David Parry & Ora Cogan
All songs recorded at Dobro Genius by David Parry except for
vocals on Tell, Secret, Fixe & Skull recorded by Logan Gabert at Craig’s Place
Cover art by Natasha Lavdovsky
Graphic design by Ora Cogan
Album layout by Logan Gabert

New single / video “Skull” out now

New single / video “Sleeping” out now + pre-orders for full album available at bandcamp

Full length album “Bells in the Ruins” out July 13, 2020

The first single Sleeping is out now + a new music video by Natasha Lavdovsky. Purchase Sleeping here listen wherever you listen on the interweb..

Ora Cogan - Sleeping - Bells in the Ruins, 2020 Prism Tongue Records https://oracogan.bandcamp.com/ Music video by Natasha Lavdovsky Video field assistants: ...

On the Video for Sleeping:

Sourced from Natasha Lavdovsky's experimental performance series titled, “Primordial Safety Test”, the footage in Ora Cogan’s newest music video (shot in 2019 on the shores of Haida Gwaii) contrasts our struggle for safety with the peacefulness of surrender. Lavdovsky utilizes the trope of the post-apocalyptic figure alone in the landscape to highlight the precariousness of human life on earth in the face of environmental destruction, climate change, and sea level rise. On a carefully chosen day (according to the moon phase and tidal flux), with the help of one assistant working the camera, Lavdovsky stood in the ocean for 90 minutes, allowing the tide to rise over her body. After this, she spent the rest of the day alone, filming herself floating and struggling to climb onto a rock. Beyond themes of apocalypse and survival, this video is about the strong human desire to be reunited with nature, and the peace one can find when we stop fighting for control, and just be in the moment.  Floating on the edge of the ocean’s vast silence is both alien and familiar. Being held in the ocean’s soft embrace is like returning to our primordial home, and reminds us that we are always somewhere between birth, and death.

The video was shot with respect and reverence, in the K̲andaliig̲wii, on unceded Haida territory. Editing was gratefully completed on unceded Tsawout territory, by the Salish Sea.

BELLS IN THE RUINS

Track list

  1. Sleeping

  2. Skull

  3. Tell

  4. Kills

  5. The Devil

  6. Fixe

  7. Secret

  8. Alta

  9. Crime

All songs written by Ora Cogan except for
Skull: Lyrics by Serena Shipp & Ora Cogan, Music by Reggie Bast & Ora Cogan
All songs produced by David Parry & Ora Cogan
All songs recorded at Dobro Genius by David Parry except for
vocals on Tell, Secret, Fixe & Skull recorded by Logan Gabert at Craig’s Place

Sleeping credits

Vocals & Electric guitar - Ora Cogan
Drums - Keenan Mittag-Degala
Bass guitar & Slide Guitar - David Parry
Synths - Reggie Bast

Album art by Natasha Lavdovsky

Album art by Natasha Lavdovsky

recording

Almost done recording with David Parry from Loving in Victoria. This has been such a dream!!! Thank you to Justin Devries, Reggie Bast, Elan Noon and Dave for being the best humans of all time. I can’t wait to share this with you all!

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