Bronze, Beige, Morse is a collision of raw and intricate sounds, charged with tension—a synesthetic world where fleeting melodies and unstable harmonic centers emerge and dissolve. Surf, punk, electronica, and progressive music converge in a disorienting yet compelling experience—one where direction is elusive and resolution never certain.
Drawing from a wide range of musical idioms, the album thrives on unpredictability and contrast. Randomness plays a key role, but beneath the surface, a subtle logic drives the momentum. Expressive yet abstract, the music resists expectation while revealing its own internal coherence. Each piece unfolds like a short story, taking unexpected turns and gaining meaning through shifting repetition.
Drummer Chad Wackerman—known for his work with Frank Zappa in the 1980s—features on track “Silly Goose.”
Press
"It's confidence and pure skill that lifts this one; just check 'Sea Castle', with its Arabesque melodies and carnival organs that Barel balances out with xenharmonic synths and mutant rhythms, or the title track's parade of Sega-strength bleeps and beats that bash into Grillo's brassy fanfares and Barel's ECM-grade licks." - Boomkat review
Track List
DIGITAL TRACK LIST
- Back to Montevideo
- Harmonica W.
- Sea Castle
- Bronze, Beige, Morse
- String Generator
- Gorilla
- Silly Goose
- Fellini and the Second Beat
Credits
About Ori Barel
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Ori Barel’s music compositions explore electronic, electroacoustic and acoustic music. His creative work encompasses many sources of inspiration: algorithmic composition, improvisation, sound design, field recordings and various compositional procedures. His chamber music has been performed by various performers including: Seth Josel, Lucia Mense, Kacey Link, Eran Borovich, The Formalist Quartet, Ear Unit, Trio Kobayashi and Anne La Berge among others, in venues such as MOSA series (New York), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Ballhaus (Berlin), Santander Festival (Spain) and Beyond Baroque (Los Angeles).
He has performed his electronic pieces at various venues including: ICMC, Redcat, the Wulf, Center For New Music (San Francisco), Stanford University, Mills College, and UCSD among others. In addition he has created soundscapes and compositions for various installations by different artists in museums and galleries such as the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Museum and the Jerusalem Artists’ House. He holds a B.A. in music composition from UCLA, a Masters degree from California Institute Of The Arts, as well a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he studied with Clarence Barlow and Curtis Roads.
